A much longer list of 2009 music.

Faunts – Feel.Love.Thinking.Of. (9)
The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love (9)
Manchester Orchestra – Mean Everything to Nothing (8)
Bat for Lashes – Two Suns (8)
Junior Boys – Begone Dull Care (8)
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion (8)
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career (8)
Mono – Hymn to the Immortal Wind (8)
Doves – Kingdom of Rust (8)
Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why There Are Mountains (8)

Antony and the Johnsons – The Crying Light (8)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz! (7)
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (7)
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone (7)
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus (7)
Morrissey – Years of Refusal (7)
Graham Coxon – The Spinning Top (6)
Mastodon – Crack the Skye (6)
Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You (6)
Andrew Bird – Noble Beast (5)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – s/t (5)
U2 – No Line on the Horizon (5)
Gui Boratto – Take My Breath Away (5)
The Boy Least Likely to – The Law of the Playground (5)
Bruce Springsteen – Working on a Dream (5)
Asobi Seksu – Hush (5)
Dan Deacon – Bromst (5)
Depeche Mode – Sounds of the Universe (4)
Ocean – Pantheon of the Lesser (4)
Brakes – Touchdown (4)
Franz Ferdinand – Tonight (3)
Chris Cornell – Scream (3)
Wavves – Wavvves (2)
Papa Roach – Metamorphosis (2)
Wolves in the Throne Room – Black Cascade (1)

Comments 4

JANUS2 Apr 30, 2009

Crack the Skye is OK, it's grown on me now I've got over the fact that it isn't Blood and Thunder. I saw the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in Shepherd's Bush last weekend. They put on a good show, and I like It's Blitz. I hated Hazards of Love, though.

Suskie Blogger Apr 30, 2009

It's one of those albums where I loved it, but I can totally understand why someone would hate it. I'm going to see the Decemberists in a month and I expect it to absolutely erupt on stage; on record, it got mixed reactions and I'm not surprised.

Halon Apr 30, 2009

Am I the only one who liked MPP quite a bit better than Strawberry Jam?

Suskie Blogger May 1, 2009

I loved MPP the first time I listened to it and My Girls is still my most-listened-to song of the year so far. The rest of the album kind of lost some appeal with repeated listens. My issue with AC is that so much of their music feels grounded in repetition, which works great when they find a good hook but is less effective when they don't. I obviously still like the album (and I agree that it's better than SJ) but My Girls and Brother Sport are really the only two songs on it that I keep coming back to.