Top 10 Albums of 2009

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Top 10 Albums of 2009 - Honorable Mention

Top 25 Tracks of 2009

1)1901 Phoenix

Phoenix - 1901 - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

2)Blood Bank Bon Iver
3)Cannibal Resource The Dirty Projectors
4)Anonanimal Andrew Bird
5)My Girls Animal Collective
6)Two Doves The Dirty Projectors
7)Skeletons Yeah Yeah Yeahs
8)Two Weeks Grizzly Bear
9)Lust For Life Girls
10)Northern Lights Bowerbirds
11)Revenge (Ft. Wayne Coyne) Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse
12)Little Secrets Passion Pit
13)Two The Antlers
14)When I Grow Up Fever Ray
15)Watching The Planets The Flaming Lips

16)While You Wait For The Others Grizzly Bear
17)Bad Romance Lady Gaga

18)Wet Hair Japandroids
19)To Kingdom Come Passion Pit
20)This Blackest Purse Why?
21)Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood St. Vincent
22)Daylight Matt & Kim
23)Gimme Sympathy Metric
24)Island, IS Volcano Choir
25)Young Adult Friction The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Last NEW music post of 2009

As the year draws to a close, lives will get busy, families will go on vacations, and most people will probably be listening to only Christmas music anyways, so this is going to be my last post for new music. I will be posting my top 10 albums and my 25 tracks of 2009 over the next few days with download links. Think of them as my Christmas present to you. So, Love and Joy and all those things to you and your families. See you again in 2010.

-Patrick

THE POST

Fever Ray's self-titled debut, the first solo endeavor by Swedish electronic artist Karin Dreijer Andersson, came out in March, but never gained the popularity it deserved. While Andersson's work with her other band, The Knife, has been incredibly innovative, it is clear that she still has a lot of new and exciting ideas. This whole album is shrouded in a kind of darkness that is unlike anything else I have ever heard. In a year where upbeat, dance electro music was quite dominant, Fever Ray takes the genre in the opposite direction, one of subtlety and vulnerability. Check it out.

Fever Ray - When I Grow Up

10:21 PM

It is still early in the night, but I need a brief break.

Listening to music can be an active process, or one can sit back and let the waves of sound wash over them. Because when the brain isn't actively determining what it is that it is interpreting, the sound travels wherever it wishes, and the resulting feelings are surprising even to one's self. Your mind wanders inside of itself and sees whatever it wants to, a daydream.

The Depreciation Guild are manipulating this effect in their song, and I'm having fun losing myself in this track.

The Depreciation Guild - Dream About Me

It's not easy...

In honor of the Copenhagen Climate Conference that is going on this week to address all the things that we should do (but probably won't start doing for another 5-10 years) in order to stop climate change, here is a song with a wonderfully poignant message on the subject...from Kermit the Frog... performed by Andrew Bird...in French (just keeps getting better!)

And while it actually is not that difficult to live an environmentally sustainable life, much of the world would agree with this song and say "It is not easy bein' green."

And that's why we are in this climate shithole today.


Andrew Bird - Bein' Green (Muppets Cover)

Videotwins

Two of this year's best new bands, San Francisco's Girls and New York's The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, both use vintage guitar sounds and up-tempo drumbeats, with a young and infectious spirit that says "let's just have fun." Their music videos have a lot in common as well. TOO much in common--grainy film quality, young friends jamming, messing around, and just doing their thing. It seems fun though, a living room party you wish you were invited to... Anyways, just watch the videos and you'll see what I mean.





I got a kick out of it.

Top 20 Albums of 2000-2009 (#5-1)

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