Tag Archives: 2009

The Best Albums of 2009, pt. 3

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 [...]

The Rest Albums of 2009, pt. 2

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, [...]

The Best Albums of 2009, pt. 2

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 Rest Albums of 2009, pt. 1

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 [...]

The Best Albums of 2009, pt. 1

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 [...]

Tunes For Tuesday: Girls – Hellhole Ratrace

It’s Let’s Talk About 2009 Week here at Popcraft, and so I think it’s reasonable to start out with my favorite song from the past year. It is seven minutes long, but that’s okay! You spend most of the time just rocking back and forth to the same, swaying melody while the music [...]