Miscellaneous
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Albums of the Year 2009
published: 1 /
12 /
2009
Our writers and photographers provide their favourite albums of 2009
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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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