Best of Rock 2009
(Read the reviews)
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7.5/10
- Elegi: Varde (Miasmah)
- Dan Deacon: Bromst (Carpark)
7/10
- Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport (ATP)
- Ben Frost: By The Throat (Bedroom Community)
- L'Acephale: Stahlhartes Gehause (Aurora Borealis)
- Cave: Psychic Psummer (Important)
- Antlers: Hospice (Frenchkiss)
- Atlas Sound: Logos (4AD)
- Bibio: Ambivalence Avenue (Warp)
- Baroness: Blue Record (Relapse)
- Necks: Silverwater (ReR)
- Clubroot: Clubroot (Lo Dubs)
- Caethua: The Long Afternoon Of Earth (Preservation)
- Doves: Kingdom of Rust (Astralwerks)
- Azita: How Will You (Drag City)
- Fever Ray: Fever Ray (Rabid)
- Dead Weather: Horehound (Reprise)
Recommended listening:
- Jepsydho: Ur-symphonie (self-released)
- DM Stith: Heavy Ghost (Asthmatic Kitty, 2009)
- Elegi: Varde (Miasmah, 2009)
- Fiery Furnace: I'm Going Away (Thrill Jockey, 2009)
- Flaming Lips: Embryonic (2009)
- Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport (ATP, 2009)
- Funeral Mist: Maranatha (Ajna, 2009)
- Girls: Album (True Panther, 2009)
- Gog: Mist From The Random More (Utech, 2009)
- Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest (Warp, 2009)
- Horrors: Primary Colours (XL, 2009)
- Irr. App. (Ext.)
- James Blackshaw: The Glass Bead Game (Young God, 2009)
- Japandroids: Post-Nothing (Polyvynyl, 2009)
- Jj: Jj #2 (Sincerely Yours, 2009)
- LSD-March: Under Milk Wood (Important, 2009)
- Manic Street Preachers: Journal For Plague Lovers (Columbia, 2009)
- Memory Tapes: Seek Magic (Acephale, 2009)
- Mount Eerie: Wind's Poem (Elverum, 2009)
- Mountain Goats: The Life of the World to Come (4AD, 2009)
- Neko Case: Middle Cyclone (Anti, 2009)
- Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms (Lefse, 2009)
- Night Control: Death Control (Kill Shaman, 2009)
- Peste Noire: Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor (De Profundis, 2009)
- Piano Magic: Ovations (Darla, 2009)
- Real Estate: Real Estate (Woodsist, 2009)
- Richard Youngs: Beyond the Valley of Ultrahits (Sonic Oyster, 2009)
- Shit And Shine: 229-2299 Girls Against Shit (Riot Season, 2009)
- St Vincent: Actor (4AD, 2009)
- Super Furry Animals: Dark Days/Light Years (Rough Trade, 2009)
- Sylvester Anfang II: Sylvester Anfang II (Aurora Borealis, 2009)
- Tim Hecker: An Imaginary Country (Kranky, 2009)
- Velvet Cacoon: Atropine (Full Moon, 2009)
- Very Best: Warm Heart of Africa (Green Owl, 2009)
- Volcano Choir: Unmap (Jagjaguwar, 2009)
- Wavves: Wavvves (Fat Possum, 2009)
- Wild Beasts: Two Dancers (Domino, 2009)
- William Fowler Collins: Perdition Hill Radio (Type, 2009)
- Woods: Songs of Shame (Shrimper, 2009)
- Xx: The xx (Young Turks, 2009)
- Yacht: See Mystery Lights (DFA, 2009)
- Yo La Tengo: Popular Songs (Matador, 2009)
- Yoga: Megafauna (Holy Mountain, 2009)
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Playlist
- Dan Deacon: Build Voice
- Doves: Kingdom of Rust
- Fever Ray: If I Had A Heart
- Pains Of Being Pure At Heart: The Tenure Itch
- Vivian Girls: Out For The Sun
- Azita: I'm Happy
- Terminal Sound System: Constructing Towers
- Dead Weather: Treat Me Like Your Mother
- Decemberists: The Rake's Song
- Patrick Wolf: Oblivion
- Vivian Girls: I Have No Fun
- Green Day: Know Your Enemy
- Beat Circus: The Life You Save May Be Your Own
- Azita: Away
- Bachelorette: Mindwarp
- Animal Collective: Summertime Clothes
- Bill Callahan: Eid Ma Clack Shaw
- Fever Ray: Now's The Only Time I Know
- Andrew Bird: Effigy
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Heads Will Roll
- Beat Circus: Petrified Man
- Bat For Lashes: Daniel
- Vivian Girls: I'm Not Asleep
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Zero
- Dirty Projectors: Stillness Is The Move
Extended tracks
- Necks: Silverwater
- L'Acephale: Stahlhartes Gehause
- Masaki Batoh & Helena Espvall: Until Tomorrow
- Erdem Helvacioglu: Lead Crystal Marbles
- John Frusciante: Before the Beginning
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Jazz
- Dave Hurley: Outer Nebula, Inner Nebula (Porter)
- Vijay Iver: Historicity
- Nels Cline: Coward
- Ergo: Multitude Solitude (Cuneiform)
- Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines
- Steve Lehman: Travil Transformation and Flow
- Bill Frisell: Disfarmer
- Henry Threadgill: This Brings to Us
- Joe Lovano: Us Five (Blue Note)
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