Miscellaneous - Albums of the Year 2009

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published: 1 / 12 / 2009

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Our writers and photographers provide their favourite albums of 2009

PETER ALLISON 1. Queensryche - American Soldier 2. OAK - OAK 3. Wednesday 13 - Bloodwork 4. Remedy - Strange Fast Now 5. Razor Blade Kisses - Twinkle Twinkle Little Scar NEIL BAILEY 1. Florence and the Machine - Lungs 2. Blyth Power - Land Sea and Sky 3. Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed 4. Brakes - Touchdown 5. New Model Army - Today is a Good Day CARL BOOKSTEIN (In no particular order) 1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion 2. U2 - No Line on the Horizon 3. Bob Dylan - Together Through Life 4. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca 5. Son Volt - American Central Dust 6. Wilco - Wilco (The Album) 7. Dinosaur Jr - Farm MALCOLM CARTER 1. Madison Violet - No Fool For Trying 2. Dennis Diken - Late Music 3. Campbell Stokes Sunshine Recorder - Makes Your Ears Smile 4. Eileen Rose and the Holy Wreck - Luna Turista 5. Soundcarriers - Harmonium ANDREW CARVER 1. Antlers - Hospice 2. Major Lazer - Guns Don’t Kill People ... Lazers Do 3. Cauldron - Surrender to the Nite 4. Cousins - Out on Town 5. Girls - Album 6. Iron Age - The Sleeping Eye 7. Evangelista - Prince of Truth 8. Sylvester Anfang - II 9. Yoga - Megafauna 10. Mastodon - Crack the Skye JOHN CLARKSON 1. Sophia - There are No Goodbyes 2. Twilight Sad -Forget the Night Ahead 3. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Paper Covers Stone 4. Robert Vandeven - Lost Days 5. Richmond Fontaine - We Used to Think the River Sounded Like a Freeway 6. Isa and the Filthy Tongues - Dark Passenger 7. James Grant - Strange Flowers 8. Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream 9. Joe Gideon and the Shark - Harum Scarum 10. White Lies - To Lose a Life DAN CRESSEY 1. Major Lazer – Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do 2. Scott H. Biram – Something's Wrong / Lost Forever 3. Future of the Left – Travels With Myself and Another 4. Mos Def – The Ecstatic 5. Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures 6. M Ward – Hold Time 7. Mumford and Sons – Sigh No More 8. Young Republic - Balletesque 9. Sunn-O - Monoliths and Dimensions DIXIE ERNILL 1. Veils - Sun Gangs 2. Teitur - All My Mistakes 3. Scaremongers - Born in a Barn 4. Airborne Toxic Event - Airborne Toxic Event 5. Official Secrets Act - Understanding Electricity 6. Twilight Sad - Forget the Night Ahead 7. I Am Kloot - B 8. At Swim Two Birds - Before You Left 9. Liam Frost - We Ain't Got No Money, Honey, but We Got Rain 10. Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart 11. Brilliant Corners - Growing Up Absurd/What's in a Word/Fruit Machine BEN HOWARTH 1. Dinosaur Jr - Farm 2. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast 3. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs 4. Swell Season - Strict Joy 5. Idlewild - Post Electric Blues 6. Emmy The Great - First Love 7. Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern - Pram Town 8. Richmond Fontaine - We Used to Think the Freeway Sounded Like a River 9. Richard Hawley - Truelove’s Gutter 10. Joe Gideon and the Shark - Harum Scarum ADRIAN HUGGINS 1. Converge – Axe to Fall 2. We Insist - The Babel Inside was Terrible 3. Marmaduke duke – Duke Pandemonium 4. Simian Mobile Disco - Temporary Pleasures 5. Horrors – Primary Colours 6. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport 7. Biffy Clyro – Only revolutions 8. Dannananackroyd – Hey Everyone 9. Prodigy – Invaders Must Die 10. Passion Pit – ‘Manners’ FIONA HUTCHINGS 1.Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate SARAH JOHNSON 1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz 2. Joe Gideon and the Shark - Harum Scarum 3. Florence and the Machine - Lungs 4. Blur - All The People... Blur Live at Hyde Park (if its allowed!) 5. Coconut Records - Davy 6. Akron/Family - Set Em Wild Set Em Free 7. Das Wanderlust - Horses For Courses 8. Metric - Fantasies 9. Swell Season - Strict Joy 10.Arctic Monkeys - Humbug CHRIS JONES 1. Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart 2. Martyn - Great Lengths 3. Declining Winter - Haunt the Upper Hallways 4. Why? - Eskimo Snow 5. Headlights - Wildlife 6. Kryptic Minds - One of Us 7. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs ANTHONY MIDDLETON 1. Duke and the King - Nothing Gold Can Stay 2. Bob Dylan - Together through Life 3. Graham Coxon - Spinning Top 4. Felice Brothers - Yonder is the Clock 5. Bob Dylan - Christmas in the Heart [Note to Editor - I have not actually listened to this yet as I am waiting for Christmas morning, but I am confident it will not be overtaken by my sixth choice. If it disappoints I will ring you on the 25th so you can alter my list!] 6. Wilco - Wilco JAMIE ROWLAND (In no particular order) 1. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca 2. Metric – Fantasies 3. The Thermals – Now We Can See 4. Das Wanderlust – Horses for Courses 5. Akron/Family – Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free 6. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion 7. Mew – No More Stories… 8. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest 9. Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career 10.Telepathe – Dance Mother MARK ROWLAND 1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion 2. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca 3. Telepathe – Dance Mother 4. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest 5. Grayskul and Maker – Graymaker 6. Memory Tapes – Seek Magic 7. Atlas Sound – Logos 8. Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs 9. St Vincent – Actor 10. Q-Tip – Kamaal the Abstract MAARTEN SCHIETHART 1 Black Dice - Repo 2 Gentle Friendly - Ride Slow 3 Oberman Knocks - 13th Smallest 4 GaBlé - I'm OK 5 Polysics - Absolute Polysics 6 Voks - Astra And Knyst 7 Zomby - One Foot Ahead of the Other 8 Strange Boys - Strange Boys and Girls Club 9 Le Loup - Family 10 Liszts - Big Trouble in Little China KELLY SMITH 1. V/A – 500 Days of Summer soundtrack 2. Fall Out Boy – Believers Never Die 3. One Night Stand In North Dakota – Dworkin’s Bastards 4. Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster 5. Brand New – Daisy ANTHONY STRUTT 1. A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head 1. Raveonettes - In and Out of Control 3. Ian McNabb - Great Things 4. The Beatles - Remasters. 5. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Fountain. 6. My Laundry Life - How to Wallow in Shame. 7. White Lies - To Lose My life 8. Cribs - Ignore the Ignorant. 9. Editors - In This light and On This Evening. 10. Leonard Cohen - Live Isle Of Wight 1970 HELEN TIPPING 1. Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed 2. Sergent Buzfuz - High Slang 3. New Model Army - Today is a Good Day 4. Florence and the Machine - Lungs 5. Pog - End of the Season LISA TOREM (In no particular order) 1. Beausoliel - Alligator Purse 2. Bob Dylan - Together Through Life 3. Yeahyous - Looking Through You 4. Joe Bonamassa - The Ballad of John Henry (Spike Driver Blues 5. Buddy Guy - Skin Deep 6. Rhett Miller - Rhett Miller 7. Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring 8, Jim Peterik’s Lifeforce - Jim Peterik's Lifeforce 9. Robin Trower - What Lies 10. Maria Muldaur - Garden of Joy DENZIL WATSON 1. Luke Haines - 20th Century Man 2. Horrors - Primary Colours 3. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug 4. Reverend and The Makers - A French kiss in the Chaos 5. Screaming Mimi - Leap into My Fervent Arms 6. Morrissey - Years of Refusal 7. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight 8. Eels - Hombre Lobo 9. Placebo - Battle for the Sun 10. Cats:For:Peru - Attack of the Pitching Machine

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