Remember 2009? Well get ready, because you’re about to. The long goodbye to a regular-sized year ends with this short list. Here are my top 15 albums of 2009:
Honorable-ish mentions here and here.
15) Peter Bjorn and John – Living Thing
14) Asobi Seksu – Hush
13) I Was a King – I Was a [...]
They say that hindsight is 20/20, so good news! Everything you are about to read is cold, indisputable fact. Here are more albums that happened in 2009, but were not the best.
I Don’t Get It:
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
I tried, I tried so hard. I want to like Middle Cyclone, you guys, [...]
Continuing from where I left off, here are my favorite albums of 2009, #’s 10-6:
10) La Roux – La Roux
When I was like ten, my friend’s parents kept giant boxes of candy in their basement, the boxes that they kept in supermarket checkout lines for kids my age to convince their parents to buy candy [...]
The problem with “Best of” lists is that they only tell part of a story. Yes, it’s important to know which albums everyone loved each year, sort of, but that gets boring almost immediately. Sometimes albums suck, and sometimes albums are good-but-not-great, and those albums are worth talking about just as much as Animal [...]
2009 is pretty much over, and now it is time to talk about that, because if there is one thing on everyone’s minds in December it is the question “what have I been listening to this whole time, anyway?”
Don’t worry, I’ll tell you.
This was a pretty dope year for tunes, you guys. For the next [...]
I’ve found that each person has his or her own way of ingesting music. In my opinion, everyone falls on a spectrum somewhere between those of us that scramble for every new release burning through fresh a playlist every week and others of us who let the music pool around them and just listen to [...]
