2009 was a heck of a year for me.
It included living in two cities (Los Angeles and New York),
a new job (at Young & Rubicam),
getting a heap of my vinyl stolen (so maddening),
and most importantly, falling in love with Bailey (soon to be married).
I also never worked harder in my life and therefore logged a lot of hours in my office, at my laptop, listening to tons of music.
So here it is, after much deliberation and possibly forgetting some things,
that I present to you,
- Jónsi & Alex: Riceboy Sleeps
- Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca
- Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
- Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
- Here We Go Magic: S/T
- Atlas Sound: Logos
- Neko Case: Middle Cyclone
- Fanfarlo: Resevoir
- Little Dragon: Machine Dreams
- Mos Def: The Ecstatic
- The xx: The xx
- Favours For Sailors: Furious Sons
- Bill Callahan: Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
- Cold Cave: Love Comes Close
- Broadcast & the Focus Group: Investigate Witch Cults...
- Antony and the Johnsons: The Crying Light
- Foreign Born: Person To Person
- Major Lazer: Guns Don't Kill People-- Lazers Do
- Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
- J. Tillman: Year In The Kingdom
- Tom Brosseau: Posthumous Success
- The Very Best: Warm Heart of Africa
- Jeremy Jay: Slow Dance
- Pink Mountaintops: Outside Love
- Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
- Taken By Trees: East Of Eden
- Miike Snow: Miike Snow
- Fever Ray: S/T
- Volcano Choir: Unmap
- Dan Deacon: Bromst
- Camera Obscura: My Maudlin Career
- St. Vincent: Actor
- jj (Sincerely Yours): jj n° 2
- Bon Iver: Blood Bank EP
- Real Estate: Real Estate
- Wilco: Wilco (The Album)
- Dodos: Time to Die
- Wavves: Wavves
- Paul White: The Strange Dreams Of…
- Sufjan Stevens: The BQE
- Bat For Lashes: Two Suns
- Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms
- Woods: Songs of Shame
- Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer
- DOOM: Born Like This
- Antipop Consortium: Fluorescent Black
- Andrew Bird: Noble Beast
- The Antlers: Hospice
- The Horrors: Primary Colours
- M. Ward: Hold Time
- Bear in Heaven: Beast Rest Forth Mouth
- Blakroc: Blakroc
- Yo La Tengo: Popular Songs
- Micachu and the Shapes: Jewellery
- Memory Tapes: Seek Magic
- Discovery: LP
- Telefon Tel Aviv: Immolate Yourself
- Dinosaur Jr.: Farm
- Bell Orchestre: As Seen Through Windows
- Washed Out: Life Of Leisure
- King Midas Sound: Waiting For You
- Rain Machine: S/T
- Kings Of Convenience: Declaration Of Dependence
- Girls: Album
- Akron/Family: Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free
- Megafaun: Gather, Form And Fly
- The Field: Yesterday and Today
- Nosaj Thing: Drift
- YACHT: See Mystery Lights
- Desire: II
- Julian Casablancas: Phrazes for the Young
- Dâm-Funk: Toeachizown
- Kurt Vile: Childish Prodigy
- Passion Pit: Manners
- Black Moth Super Rainbow: Eating Us
- Iron & Wine: Around The Well
- The Flaming Lips: Embryonic
- Bowerbirds: Upper Air
- tUnE-yArDs: BiRd-BrAiNs
- A Sunny Day in Glasgow: Ashes Grammar
- Cymbals Eat Guitars: Why There Are Mountains
- Timber Timbre: S/T
- Wild Beasts: Two Dancers
- Bibio: Ambivalence Avenue
- Magnolia Electric Co.: Josephine
- Alela Diane: To Be Still
- The Cave Singers: Welcome Joy
- The Veils: Sun Gangs
- Telekinesis: S/T
- Big Pink: A Brief History Of Love
- Bonnie Prince Billy: Beware
- Malakai: Ugly Side Of Love
- James Pants: Seven Seals
- Fink: Sort Of Revolution
- Nudge: As Good As Gone
- Mayer Hawthorne: A Strange Arrangement
- Eat Skull: Wild And Inside
- Sa-Ra Creative Partners: Nuclear Evolution
- Julian Plenti: Is Skyscraper
Compilations, Reissues and Honorable Mentions
Every vinyl release from Mississippi Records (Portland, Oregon)
V/A: Fire In My Bones
V/A: Warp 20 Boxset
Rodriguez: Coming From Reality
The Feelies: Crazy Rhythms
The Feelies: The Good Earth
Whitefield Brothers: Earthology
Big Star: Keep An Eye On The Sky boxset
Pylon: Chomp More
V/A: Spiritual Jazz – Esoteric, Modal + Deep Jazz From The Underground
SJOB Movement: A Move In The Right Direction
Mebusas: Blood Brothers
Charlotte Gainsbourg: IRM
V/A: Forge Your Own Chains
The Heliocentrics: Fallen Angels
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou: Echos Hypnotiques 1969 -1979
V/A: Ghana Special – Modern Highlife
V/A: Africa Boogaloo – The Latinization Of West Africa
Everything released on Minimal Wave Records
V/A: Zanzibara Vol. 5
V/A: Tumbele! – Biguine, Afro & Latin sounds from The French Caribbean
V/A: Singapore A-Go-Go (Sublime Frequencies)
Roj: The Transactional Dharma Of Roj
The Drums: Summertime
Edan: Echo Party
Madlib: Beat Conducta Vol. 5 & 6
V/A: Legends Of Benin – Analog Africa Vol. 5
V/A: Shadow Music Of Thailand (Sublime Frequencies)
V/A: Siamese Soul – Thai Pop Spectacular Vol. 2 (Sublime Frequencies)
V/A: Tropical Funk Experience
V/A: Local Customs – Downriver Rivival
Moby: Wait For Me
V/A: The World Is Shaking – Cubanismo From The Congo 1954 – 55
Kélétigui Diabaté: The Syliphone Years 1970-1976
V/A: Pop Ambient 2009
Animal Collective: Fall Be Kind EP
V/A: Cuban Funk Experience
Lafayette Afro-Rock Band: Darkest Light – The Best Of
Black Dice: Repo
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti: Loverboy
Arthur Russell: The Sleeping Bag Sessions
V/A: Cazumbi – African Sixities Garage Vol. 1
Monks: The Early Years 1964 - 1965
Coconot: Cosa Astral
Patrick Cowley & Jorge Socarras: Catholic
The Raveonettes: In And Out Of Control
Sonic Youth: Eternal
V/A: Open Strings
Helado Negro: Awe One
Laura Gibson: Beast Of Seasons
PJ Harvey & John Parish: A Woman A Man Walked By
God Help The Girl: S/T
Willie Isz: Georgiavania
Silversun Pickups: Swoon
Chester French: Love The Future
Ear Pwr: Super Animal Brothers III
Tabu Ley Rochereau: The Voice Of Lightness
Lucky Dragons: Open Power 12”
Nick DeWitt: Supernatural Punishment 12”
V/A: Eccentric Soul – Smart’s Palace
These Are Powers: All Aboard Future
V/A: Five Years Of Hyperdub
Juice Aleem: Jerusalem Come
Deastro: Moondagger
K-Os: Yes!
Zomby: Where Were U in '92?
It Hugs Back: Inside Your Guitar
Weekends: Weekends
The Muslims (aka The Soft Pack): S/T
Elvis Perkins In Dearland: S/T
Bobby Birdman: New Moods
Hudson Mohawke: Butter
A.C. Newman: Get Gulity
Condo Fucks: Fuckbook
The Builders And The Butchers: S/T
Jay Reatard: Watch Me Fail
Richard Swift: The Atlantic Ocean
The Juan MacLean: The Future Will Come
The Decemberists: The Hazards of Love
Lotus Plaza: The Floodlight Collective
Beirut: March Of The Zapotec
BLK JKS: After Robots
Throw Me The Statue: Creaturesque
Califone: All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band: S/T
Bishop Allen: Grrr…
Phosphorescent: To Willie
Surfer Blood: Astro Coast
Group Doueh: Treeg Salaam
Swan Lake: Enemy Mine
Where The Wild Things Are (Soundtrack)
Dangermouse & Sparklehorse: Dark Night Of The Soul
Simone White: Yakiimo
Matt & Kim: Grand
Devendra Banhart: What Will We Be
Silk Flowers: S/T
Times New Viking: Born Again Revisited
Cotton Jones: Paranoid Cocoon
Box Elders: Alice & Friends
Lightning Dust: S/T
Asobi Seksu: Hush
Mount Eerie: Wind’s Poem
Zola Jesus: The Spoils
A Place To Bury Strangers: Exploding Head
Jon Hopkins: Insides
Jay-Z: The Blueprint 3
Choir Of Young Believers: This Is For The White In Your Eyes
Speech Debelle: Speech Therapy
Pens: Hey Friend! What You Doing
Vitalic: Flashmob
Lullabye Arkestra: Threats/Worship
Yura Yura Teikoku: Hollow Me/Beautiful
The Clientele: Bonfires On The Heath
The Avett Brothers: I And Love And You
Monsters Of Folk: S/T
Air: Love 2
The Mountain Goats: The Life Of The World To Come
The Legends: Over And Over
Clipse: Til The Casket Drops
Daniel Johnston: Is And Always Was
Panther: Entropy
Mirah (A)spera
Royksopp: Junior
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It’s Blitz
Drake: So Far Gone
Au Revoir Simone: Still Night, Still Light
The Heavy: The House That Dirt Built
Basement Jaxx: Scars
Lord Newborn & The Magic Skulls: S/T
Hildur Guðnadóttir: Without Sinking
The Boxer Rebellion: Union
Hudson Mohawke: Butter
El Michels Affair: Enter The 37th Chamber
We Were Promised Jetpacks: These Four Walls
Savath & Savalas: La Llama
Prefuse 73: Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian