Records/Songs of '09 (1 Viewer)

My favourite song of 2009 is....
If You Leave it Alone by the Wave Pictures.

I'm really bad at remembering songs/records I like. This thread might help.

On the Irish front, I was very impressed by the Patrick Kelleher album and the Groom EP (title track of that wins my fave Irish song). Honest.

I wish I hadn't forgotten my iPod.

I loved the compilation Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds and Nigerian Blues 1970-76.

Sunset Rubdown's Dragonslayer and Handsome Furs' Face Control kept up the amazingness of the Wolf Parade-related output. THe former in particular was incredible, and the first SR album I REALLY liked.

Hopefully this thread will introduce me to some stuff I should have listened to. I spent a lot of time discovering old stuff and working my way through the recommended listening in Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise.
 
i didn't hear a ton of new music this year but some stuff i did like was

ducktails, real estate, alex bleeker & the freaks (underwater peoples showcase)
nite jewel
tickley feather
let's wrestle
atlas sound
the wave pictures
hands on heads
vivian girls
high places

that's just offa the top of my head. i'm sure there were others
 
what does he recommend Moods?

Well it's all 20th Century 'classical' stuff I suppose. So lads like Messaien, Copland, Stravinsky, Shostakovitch, Reich, Britten, Sibelius, Schoenberg, Berg, etc, etc. And your Gershwins and Duke Ellingtons. I found some of it to be hard work but I enjoyed enough to make it worthwhile, and loved a fair chunk.
 
And your Gershwins and Duke Ellingtons..

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:: 25 Records ::

Real Estate - S/T
Cryptacize - Mythomania
Pants Yell! - Received Pronunciation
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Boat - Setting the Paces
Ducktails - S/T
Yeh Deadlies - Snow Joke EP
caUSE-co-MOTION! - Because Because Because
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Woods - Songs of Shame
Grass Widow - S/T
VA - Underwater Peoples Summer Showcase
Ganglians - Monster Head Room
Land Lovers - Immovable Feet
Julie Dorian - I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
Taken by Trees - East of Eden
City Center - S/T
Box Elders - Alice and Friends
Cornershop - Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast
The Bats - The Guilty Office
Mount Eerie - Winds Poem
The Beets - Spit In The Face of People Who Don't Want To Be Cool*
Bats - Red In Tooth And Claw
Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Gok

:: 15 Songs ::

Real Estate - Suburban Beverage
Fergus & Geronimo - Harder Than It's Ever Been / Tell It In My Ear Girl
I Heart The Monster Hero - Toni Bailey
Best Coast - Sun Was High
Camera Obscura - French Navy
Girls - Lust For Life
The Mantles - Don't Lie
Memory Tapes - Bicycle / Plain Material
Ariel Pink - Phantasthma
The Wave Pictures - If You Leave It Alone
Personal & The Pizzas - I Don't Feel So Happy Now No More
Nodzzz - True to Life
Sun Araw - All Night Long
Eat Skull - Heaven's Stranger
Naomi Punk - N/A

* also the album cover of the year:

the-beets-spit-in-the-face-of-people-who-dont-want-to-be-cool.jpg
 
Oh I didn't know that caUSE-co-MOTION! had an album out this year. Must lay hands on it.
The Guilty Office by The Bats was very good.
As was the Deadlies EP, I didn't realise that was this year.
 
My friend bought me this 7" thinking it was "the ex".
Hate their voices but the music is ok.

Here stuff i enjoyed this year so far.

LPs
City Centre - City Centre
Teeth Mountain - Teeth Mountain
future Islands - Home Like Wave
Nite Jewel - Good Evening
Thieves Like Us - Play Music
What's Up - Content Imagination

EPs
Zola Jesus - Tsar Bomba ep
The Savage Young Taterbug - BOYS OF THE FEATHER EP
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Reminiscences EP
The Radio Dept. - David EP
Abe Vigoda - Reviver EP

Songs
Zola Jesus - Sea Talk
Angkorwat - Kid Gloves
Ducktails – Dancing With The One You Love
Tickley Feather - The Python
Squarehead - Fake Blood
Real Estate - Fake Blues
Declan Q. Kelly - Simulacrum
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Can't Hear My Eyes / Evolution's A Lie (7")
Boys Of Summer - Coriolis
Fever Ray - keep the streets empty for me
Fever Ray - if i had a heart
David Kitt - Move It On
Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar


And pity much every song on the Trensmat's "Every Noise Has A Note" compilation and Patrick Kelleher's Remix album.
 
my album of the year is probably

'being dufay' by ambrose field and john potter.

its 14th century chant with a bit of electronics. probably the most retro album ever.

my irish song of the year is 'love is hard' by the lie-ins. i haven't listened to tonnes of irish this year but thats the stand out one.
 

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