[SweetAdeline]

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Originally Posted by SweetAdeline /img/forum/go_quote.gif 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.

It's always fun to see how much my top ten changed. I actually have grown to really hate that Future of the Left album. The rest is quite a bit different also. I can see that I knew right away that Sunset Rubdown would be my #1 album though.

 

[Davey]

The latest from the Engineers, Three Fact Fader, is really nice, if you like that early 90s shimmering shoegaze, with a storm of guitars always swirling in the background, they are probably the best at it nowadays. Been listening a lot to it over the last couple weeks.

 

[pedalhead]

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Originally Posted by Davey /img/forum/go_quote.gif The latest from the Engineers, Three Fact Fader, is really nice, if you like that early 90s shimmering shoegaze, with a storm of guitars always swirling in the background, they are probably the best at it nowadays. Been listening a lot to it over the last couple weeks.

Good call. I recently saw them supporting Porcupine Tree & bought their latest based on that. Glad I did, it's a great album.

 

[jonnyhambone]

Goat - the Jesus Lizard...recently remastered version. sounded great before w/ Steve Albini, Bob Weston behind the boards, sounds even better now. What a kickass album!
Picked up the new Mt. Eerie too - very weird, his take on the atmospherics of Norwegian Death metal or some such...very cool after a few spins.

 

[Davey]

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Originally Posted by pedalhead /img/forum/go_quote.gif Good call. I recently saw them supporting Porcupine Tree & bought their latest based on that. Glad I did, it's a great album.

Yea, you probably know, but there's a pretty cool remix around of the second song, Sometimes I Realise, by Steven Wilson. Think it's a bonus track on the 2-disc version. Some of it does sound a bit like PT.

 

[Homeless]

Them Crooked Vultures

 

[The Actual]

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Originally Posted by sgrossklass /img/forum/go_quote.gif Make that four. Scores high in terms of originality, only the lyrics are limping along a bit too much at times. I'll also throw in St. Vincent: Actor (Andrew Bird has already been mentioned, I quite liked "Noble Beast", too.) Hard to overlook Animal Collective this year, at least for sheer influence.

I like the Fever Ray lyrics a lot. first it is not easy to make simplistic lyrics sound so profound, and furthermore through doing this it puts new perspective and meaning on top of the single dimension of written words on a page- basically exactly what is amazing about lyrics and words set to music

of course, my argument here is contingent on finding lines like "I ride my bike up and down" "I live between concrete walls" "we talk about dishwasher tablets" hugely profound

listened to the St Vincent release in a friends car several times around thanksgiving, sounded great. thanks for reminding me to pick that one up

 

[Azathoth]

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Originally Posted by jonnyhambone /img/forum/go_quote.gif Goat - the Jesus Lizard...recently remastered version. sounded great before w/ Steve Albini, Bob Weston behind the boards, sounds even better now. What a kickass album!

Thanks for the heads up, added on my to-buy list.

 

[Head_case]

What a fantastic event!

 

[sahwnfras]

Slaughterhouse- Slaughterhouse
Jay-Z- Blueprint 3
Asher Roth- Asleep In The Bread Aisle
Clipse- Til The Casket Drops
Drake- So Far Gone EP
Eminem- Relapse
Kid Cudi- Man From The Moon
Maino- If Tommorow Comes
Mos Def- Ecstatic
Wale- Attention Defict
Wyclef Jean & DJ Drame- Troussaint St. Jean, From the Hut to the Projects to the Mansion
50 Cent- Before I Self Destruct

..Still waiting on, Lil Wayne, Young Money & Eminem before years end

 

[Asr]

I'll likely add more in a post later but I wanted to mention Julia Fischer's Bach Concertos. The entire disc is just an intense performance by both Ms. Fischer and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. There are so many stand-out movements but the one that's particularly stunning IMO is the Adagio from the Violin Concerto in E major. Absolutely intense and extremely soulful. And the way it's rendered by my components of choice (Stax OII MKI, HeadAmp BHSE, Plinius CD-101) makes it even more transcendental. I've listened to this movement with my other headphones but none of them compare even remotely, the OII/BHSE is just flat-out amazing on it, it blows me away every time. It's fantastic, spectacular, breathtaking.......the kind of thing that when you hear it, it leaves you at a loss for words. I wish I could share the sonic experience with everyone.

 

[Kernmac]

A fusion of Folk and Rock with maybe a hint of Indie, most tracks backed with a dynamic banjo lick - great string work, and powerful drum beats. The tracks range from foot stomping to heartfelt. Several tracks are quite dark with some implied menace to them, often starting slow and then quickly changing to a pounding crescendo. This “colour” or “shade” of varying tone, with quick changes of tempo and rhythm creates an interesting but well integrated album with plenty of passion. The lyrics are thought provoking, deep and relevant to the music and refreshingly, lacking any cheesiness.

"As the winter winds litter London with lonely hearts
The warmth in your eyes swept me into your arms
Was it love or fear of the cold that led us through the night
For every kiss your beauty trumped my doubt"

Album of the year condender.

 

[HipHopScribe]

I think I posted in this thread months ago, but with 2009 almost over I have a much more solid list now:

1. St. Vincent - Actor
2. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
3. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
4. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
5. P.O.S. - Never Better
6. The Antlers - Hospice
7. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
8. D-Sisive - Let the Children Die
9. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
10. Joe Henry - Blood From Stars
11. Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night
12. Mos Def - The Ecstatic
13. Slaid Cleaves - Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
14. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
15. Talk Normal - Sugarland
16. The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come
17. Atlas Sound - Logos
18. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II
19. Girls - Album
20. The Flaming Lips - Ebryonic
21. The Dead Weather - Horehound
22. Slug & Murs - Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez
23. Built to Spill - There Is No Enemy
24. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
25. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
26. Brother Ali - Us
27. Fashawn - Boy Meets World
28. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
29. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
30. Wild Beats - Two Dancers

 

[John2e]

Katotonia - Night is the New Day
U2 - No line on the Horizon
Mos Def - The Estatic

 

[YtseJamer]

My album of the year is Katatonia "Night is the New Day"