My Favorite Releases of 2009
In previous years, I’ve made it a point to share my favorite music from the last 12 months on this blog. I’ve ranked music in top ten lists, packaged mp3 samples of my favorites, and even produced a podcast with the year’s highlights. From my perspective, 2009 was a jackpot year for new releases. So I’m going for quantity over quality this year.
I’ve divided my favorites into two groups, both alphabetically listed. I chose 62 releases in total. Most are full-length albums and some are EPs and singles. However there are no compilations, mixes or reissues. The first group is my must-haves; the second group is well worth searching out. And we’ll leave it at that. Happy 2010!
2009 Must-Haves (12):
- Atom™ – Liedgut
- Ben Frost – By the Throat
- Brock Van Wey – White Clouds Drift On And On
- Cold Cave – Love Comes Close
- DJ Sprinkles – Midtown 120 Blues
- Fever Ray – Fever Ray
- Intrusion – The Seduction of Silence
- Leyland Kirby – Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was
- Monolake – Silence
- Moritz Von Oswald Trio – Vertical Ascent
- Oneohtrix Point Never – Rifts
- Sunn O))) – Monoliths and Dimensions
2009 Well Worth Searching Out (50):
- 2562 – Unbalance
- Alley Cat & Vaccine – Sweet Spot & Radiate
- Alva Noto – Xerrox Vol.2
- Anduin – Abandoned In Sleep
- Animal Hospital – Memory
- Arne Weinberg – Alpha & Omega
- Black To Comm – Alphabet 1968
- Broadcast and The Focus Group – Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age
- Bvdub – We Were the Sun
- Caboladies – Crowded Out Memory
- Carl Sagan’s Ghost – Darkness And The Light
- Clubroot – Clubroot
- Concern – Truth And Distance
- Demdike Stare – Symbiosis
- Dinosaur Jr – Farm
- Emeralds – Emeralds
- Emptyset – Emptyset
- Ethernet – 144 Pulsations of Light
- Hildur Guðnadóttir – Without Sinking
- Kreng – L’Autopsie Phénoménale De Dieu
- Lawrence – Until Then, Goodbye
- Loscil – Strathcona Variations
- Luke Hess – Light In The Dark
- Martin Finke – Make Daylight
- Martyn – Great Lengths
- Monolake – Silence
- Moon Wiring Club – Striped Paint For The Last Post
- Mordant Music – SyMptoMs
- Mountains – Choral
- Mungolian Jetset – We Gave It All Away…And Now We Are Taking It Back
- Peverelist – Jarvik Mindstate
- Pixel – The Drive
- Quantec – Cauldron Subsidence
- Redshape – The Dance Paradox
- Roj – The Transactional Dharma of Roj
- Scott Tuma And Mike Weis – Taradiddle
- Shackleton – Three EPs
- SnD – Atavism
- Stephan Mathieu + Taylor Deupree – Transcriptions
- STL – Dub Techno Explorations
- Stray Ghost – Each Paradise Is A Lost Paradise
- The Sight Below – Murmur EP
- Thomas Köner – La Barca
- Tu M’ – Monochromes Vol. 1
- Vladislav Delay – Tummaa
- William Basinski – 92982
- Yagya – Rigning
- Zelienople – Give It Up
- Zola Jesus – The Spoils
- Zomby – One Foot Ahead Of The Other
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