As the first year for Too Much Happiness comes to a close, I look back and think that it was a pretty good year for music. I wouldn’t say it was anything EPIC. Certainly some influential albums here and there, but no real game changers.
This is MY personal list of my top 20 favorite albums of 2009. Mine and mine alone. I’m sure Paul and Adam would take exception to many of these (Metric over Phoenix? Paramore over Miike Snow?! Animal Collective is HOW FAR DOWN?!?!), and I’m not even saying these are what I believe to best the BEST 20 albums of the year, just my own musical preferences splayed out for your critical pleasure.
In order, they are:
1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz (March 9th)
2. Florence and the Machine – Lungs (July 6th)
3. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (May 26)
4. Metric – Fantasies (April 7th)
5. The xx – xx (August 17th)
6. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (May 26th)
7. Paramore – Brand New Eyes (September 25th)
8. Brandi Carlile – Give Up The Ghost (October 6th)
9. Miike Snow – Miike Snow (October 23rd)
10. Here We Go Magic – Here We Go Magic (February 24th)
11. Silversun Pickups – Swoon (April 14th)
12. Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You (February 9th)
13. The Swell Season – Strict Joy (October 23rd)
14. Passion Pit – Manners (May 19th)
15. Various Artists – The New Moon OMP Soundtrack (October 16th)
16. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion (January 6th)
17. Bat For Lashes – Two Suns (April 6th)
18. Anya Marina – Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II (January 20th)
19. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes – Up From Below (July 14th)
20. Mos Def – The Ecstatic (June 9th)
And of course, what’s looking back, without looking ahead? I’m already jazzed about a bunch of things on the horizon for ought ten: Vampire Weekend, Editors, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Hot Chip, Arcade Fire, Crystal Castles, Little Boots, et al.
What are you excited about that’s coming?
Florence + the Machine – “Drumming”
The xx – “Shelter”
Miike Snow – “In Search Of”
Silversun Pickups – “Panic Switch”
Lily Allen – “The Fear” (Duke Dumont Remix)
The Killers – “A White Demon Love Song”
Browse Timeline
Comments ( 3 )
Cory added these pithy words on Dec 22 09 at 8:14 amDefinitely most pumped up for Yeasayer!
Ashli-Maryah Triplett added these pithy words on Dec 23 09 at 2:49 pmDeff Metric over Phoenix! Suprised Anya Marina is so far down =O! Not a fan of Lily Allen much. I’m psyched over Arcade Fires new shit too.
Aaron added these pithy words on Dec 24 09 at 3:11 pmI am definitely most pumped for the new Spoon and Beach House albums coming out early next year. The Jonsi album could be killer too.
