[virometal]

Alright music junkies, time to spread your knowledge for the good of humanity.

What new music has been essential, catchy, progressive...etc of the year to date?

 

[HipHopScribe]

My top 20 of the year so far (no order):

St. Vincent - Actor
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Aceyalone - The Lonely Ones
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
P.O.S. - Never Better
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
The Love Language - The Love Language
Slaid Cleaves - Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
D-Sisive - Let the Children Die
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Tiny Vipers - Life On Earth
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Sister Suvi - Now I Am Champion
Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
Bowerbirds - Upper Air
Tanya Morgan - Brooklynati
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle

 

[Pyriel0]

Mastodon - Crack the Skye album

 

[Iron_Dreamer]

Like I haven't posted in enough threads already about how much I like this album:

 

[tintin47]

I am going to keep mine short, so top 5 in no real order:

1) Antony and the Johnsons, The Crying Light
2) Sunset Rubdown, Dragonslayer
3) Bat for Lashes, Two Suns
4) Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest
5) Andrew Bird, Noble Beast

Animal collective was awesome, also, but it hasn't stayed with me like their last, Strawberry Jam, did, so I can't give it a top 5.

 

[Uncle Erik]

This one has been getting an awful lot of spins recently.

 

[kwitel]

ISIS-Wavering Radiant
Dredg-The Pariah...
IAMX-Kingdom of Welcome Addiction

Thats all i got right now...

 

[bakercj93]

Top 5:

1) Mastodon - Crack the Skye
2) Dredg - The Pariah
3) Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
4) Isis - Wavering Radiant
5) Devin Townsend - Ki

It's been a great year so far - even more to look forward to the rest of the year.

 

[asmox]

A few favorites so far -

Animals as Leaders - s/t
Exivious - s/t
Counter-World Experience - Metronomicon
Gigantic Brain - Betelgeuse
Gnostic - Engineering the Rule
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Kalisia - Cybion
Long Distance Calling - Avoid the Light
maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
Obscura - Cosmogenesis
The Agonist - Lullabies for the Dormant Mind

 

[DLeeWebb]

"Dark Is The Night" - Various Artists [Arcade Fire/Beirut/Cat Power/Andrew Bird/David Byrne/Yeasayer/Spoon/Iron & Wine]
"Bitte Orca" - Dirty Projectors
"Veckatimest" - Grizzly Bear
"Wilco (The Album)" - Wilco
"Noble Beast | Useless Creatures" - Andrew Bird
"Keep It Hid" - Dan Auerbach
"The Hazards of Love" - The Decemberists,
"Up From Below" - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
"No Line On The Horizon" - U2
"Blood From Stars" - Joe Henry
"Popular Songs" - Yo La Tengo
"Hospice" - The Antlers
"All My Friends Are Funeral Singers" - Califone
"Get Lucky" - Mark Knopfler
"We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River" - Richmond Fontaine
"Embryonic" - The Flaming Lips
"Logos" - Atlas Sound


To me these are the most impressive discs of 2009, so far. I have several 2009 discs that I have yet to listen to and five and a half more months, so who knows in the end...

 

[THAY BRAN]

FOUR80EAST - ROLL ON

 

[priest]

Serengeti - Dennehy (Lights! Camera! Action!). Technically it was released in 2008 I think, but it was so slept on that I'm calling it in 2009. (I am not talking about Dennehy, the 2006 proto-release).

 

[Davey]

Been listening a lot to the new Manic Street Preachers, so that's probably the one for me right now. Journal for Plague Lovers. Not quite as dark and heavy as The Holy Bible (what is?), but does harken back to those times, maybe with a more refined viewpoint, more varied for sure with a mix of ballads, not as raw, nor as amazing, but still one of the best I've heard this year.

 

[Laokid18]

Quote:

Originally Posted by DLeeWebb /img/forum/go_quote.gif "Dark Is The Night" - Various Artists [Arcade Fire/Beirut/Cat Power/Andrew Bird/David Byrne/Spoon/Iron & Wine] "Bitte Orca" - Dirty Projectors "Veckatimest" - Grizzly Bear "Wilco (The Album)" - Wilco "Noble Beast | Useless Creatures" - Andrew Bird "The Hazards of Love" - The Decemberists, "Up From Below" - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros "No Line On The Horizon" - U2 To me these are the most impressive discs of 2009, so far. I have several 2009 discs that I have yet to listen to and five and a half more months, so who knows in the end...

definitely agree, I especially like Grizzly Bears new album. I cant' stop listening to "While you wait for the others"

 

[SweetAdeline]

In order-

Condo F*c*s- Fu**book
Hayden- The Place Where We Lived
Grizzly Bear- Vectamist
The Future of the Left- Travels With Myself and Another
Thee Oh Sees- Help
Neko Case- Middle Cyclone
Andrew Bird- Noble Beast
The Handsome Furs- Face Control
Art Brut- Art Brut vs. Satan
Mono- Hymm to the Immortal Wind

Edit: I just got the new Sunset Rubdown, so I'm letting it settle in a bit before I decide where to place it. I know it will probably be pretty high though.