Sunday, January 10, 2010

Top Albums 2009: The Close Contenders List.

Lawks, milarky! A caveat!

Having tried twice to post my best albums of 2009, I do feel like I restricted myself limiting it to just ten albums. And having seen Australian Rolling Stone’s fifty (including the disgusting omission of ‘It’s Blitz’ in favour of Green Day’s ‘21st Century Breakdown’. I mean come on.) I feel I should post a further list of my favourite 09 albums. Because to hell with being outdone by Rolling Stone. I won’t rank or eulogize this time, it’s huge. But still, I strongly recommend the following:

- Biffy Clyro, Only Revolutions

- Eels, Hombre Lobo

- Gossip, Music For Men

- Future of the Left, Travels With Myself And Another

- Monsters of Folk, Monsters Of Folk

- Lily Allen, It’s Not Me, It’s You

- La Roux, La Roux

- Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More

- Daniel Merriweather, Love And War

- Mariachi El Bronx, Mariachi El Bronx

- Muse, The Resistance

- Regina Spektor, Far

- Maximo Park, Quicken The Heart

- Passion Pit, Manners

- Bruce Springsteen, Working On A Dream

- Them Crooked Vultures, Them Crooked Vultures

- Yves Klein Blue, Ragged And Ecstatic

- The Mars Volta, Octahedron

- Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca

- Flight of the Conchords, I Told You I Was Freaky

- Major Lazer, Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do

- Paloma Faith, Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful?

- The Flaming Lips, Embryonic

- White Rabbits, It’s Frightening

- The Decemberists The Hazards Of Love

This article first appeared on my Facebook page on January 7th 2009.

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