TOP SHELF ALBUMS 2009
1. Mordant Music- SyMptoMs
2. Oneohtrix Point Never- Drifts
3. Fuck Buttons- Tarot Sport
4. Dan Deacon- Bromst
5. Broadcast and the Focus Group- Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
6. Brock Van Wey- White Clouds Drift On and On
7. Animal Collective- Merriweahter Post Pavillion
8. Mount Kimbie- Maybes EP
9. Black Moth Super Rainbow- Eating Us
10. Ducktails- Ducktails
11. Roj- The Transactional Dharma of Roj
12. Leyland Kirby- Sadly, The Future is Not What it Was
13. Prodigy- Invaders Must Die
14. Annie- Don't Stop
15. The Flaming Lips- Embryonic
16. Matias Aguayo- Ay Ay Ay
17. Pimmon- Smudge Another Yesterday
18. Jon Hopkins- Insides
19. Falty DL- Love is a Liability
20. City Center- City Center
21. Nomo- Invisible Cities
22. Martyn- Great Lengths
23. Sunn 0))- Monoliths and Dimension
24. Hecker- Acid in the Style of David Tudor
25. Kreng- L'Autopsie Phenomenale De Dieu
HONORABLE MENTIONS (in alphabetical order)
Bibio- Vignetting the Compost, Elegi- Varde, Robert Henke-Atom/Document, Junior Boys- Begone Dull Care, Kid606- Shout at the Doner, Moderat- Moderat, Neon Indian- Psychic Chasms, Duncan Powell- The Push EP and Remixes, The Present- The Way We Are EP, Moritz Von Oswald- Vertical Ascent, Weird Tapes- More Tapes/ Get Religion EPs
PINNACLE SONGS OF 2009
For individual tracks, I tried to limit myself to one song per artist for songs, but this proved too difficult in some cases. In these instances, honorable mentions were selected,usually vastly different examples of works, remixes, or b-sides to the A.
1. Lily Allen- The Fear
2. Animal Collective- What Would I Want? Sky
honorable mention: My Girls
3. Delorean- Seasun
courtesy Pitchfork
4. Flaming Lips- Convinced of the Hex
honorable mention: Borderline (ft Stardeath and White Dwarves)
5. Au Revoir Simone- Shadows (Tanlines Mix)
courtesy Pitchfork
6. Grizzly Bear- Two Weeks
honorable mention: Cheerleader (Neon Indian studio 6669 mix)
courtesy Daily Rind
7. Joy Orbison- Hyph Mngo
8. Oneohtrix Point Zero- Zones Without People
Courtesy Village Voice
9. Grouper- Hold the Way
10. Jay Z ft Alicia Keys- Empire State of Mind
11. Nite Jewel- Artificial Intelligence
12. Fuck Buttons- Surf Solar
13. Newworldaquarium- Trespassers (Redshape trespassed mix)
14. Shakira- She Wolf
15. Atlas Sound feat Noah Lennox- Walkabout
16. Mount Kimbie- Vertical
17. Joker- Digidesign
18. Mordant Music- You Are a Door
19. Duncan Powell- Wishing
Courtesy Duncan Powell
20. Donaeo- Party Hard
21. Big Boi ft Gucci Mane- Shine Blocks
Courtesy The Fader
22. Jamie Foxx ft Kanye West, the Dream- Digital Girl (album version)
23. Passion Pit- Little Secrets
24. Burial Ft Four Tet- Moth
25. Madrid- Reply (To Everyone)
Courtesy Pitchfork
26. Kid606- Dancehall of the Dead
27. Cooly G- Love Dub
28. Andy Stott- Brief Encounter
honorable mention: Drippin'
29. Wiley & Chew Fu- Take That
30. Dirty Projectors- Stillness is the Move
31. Prodigy- Warrior's Dance
32. Falty DL- Human Meadow
33. Pangaea- Bear Witness
34. Neon Indian- Deadbeat Summer
Courtesy Pitchfork
35. Washed Out- Feel it All Around
36. Drake- Best I Ever Had
37. Simian Mobile Disco- Cruel Intentions (Joker Mix)
courtesy of The Fader
38. Fever Ray- If I Had a Heart
39. Four Tet- Love Cry
40. Noah D- Got U Now
41. Friend- Doki
Courtesy The Fader
42. Broadcast- Sixty-Forty (Nico Cover)
Available on Warp: Unheard
43. Susumu Yokota- A Flower White
44. Moderat- Rusty Nails
honorable mention: Rusty Nails (Shackleton Mix)
45. DJ Kaos- Love the Night Away (Tiedye mix)
Courtesy Pitchfork
46. Annie- Songs Remind Me Of You
47. Untold- Just For You
48. Double Dagger- The Lie/ The Truth
Courtesy the Washington Post
49. The Big Pink- Velvet - The Big Pink-Velvet
honorable mention- Velvet (Gang Gang Dance Mix)
50. Intrusion- Little Angel ft Paul St. Hilaire
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