Saturday, December 5, 2009

My Favorite Albums of 2009

1. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear "Ready, Able" (from Letterman)

2. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective "My Girls"

3. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Phoenix "1901"

4. The XX xx

The XX "VCR"

5. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors "Stillness is the Move"

6. Neon Indian Psychic Chasms

Neon Indian "6669 (I Don't Know If You Know)" (unofficial video)

7. Washed Out Life of Leisure

Washed Out "Feel it All Around" (unofficial video)

8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Zero" (from Letterman)

9. jj No. 2

jj "From Africa to Malaga" (no video available)

10. Neko Case Middle Cyclone

Neko Case "People Got a Lotta Nerve"

And, because I always have one I feel guilty for leaving off, my 2009 alternate:

Yo La Tengo Popular Songs

Yo La Tengo "Sugarcube" and "Periodically Double or Triple" (from La Blogotheque)