Albums of 2009

10 - Bonnie Prince Billy - Ease Down The Road

The man makes an album a year, fer chrissakes. Give him a bone.

9 - Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be

Freak Folk diva ditches his channeling of Elvis and gets back to his roots.

8 - Morrissey - Swords

Ah, the phallic references never stop with Moz.

7 - Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle

Bill could say the dirtiest things to your mother and she’d still make him a cup of warm milk, and put him to bed, while looking at you with a "why couldn’t I have had a son like him instead of you" expression.

6 - Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti Is... Skyscraper

This makes me wish I still owned leather pants

5 - Sparklehorse - Dark Night Of The Soul

I like thinking of fey indie-boys locking themselves in their midwestern bedrooms listening to this while their mothers pound on the doors screaming, "son, what are you doing there?!?"

4 - Neko Case - Middle Cyclone

Playing this album will get you laid. 60% of the time, it works everytime.

3 - The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

The Rock Opera is alive and it wants heavily creamed and honeyed Earl Grey tea.

2 - Black Heart Procession - "6"

More dirges from the dark, cold, sad town of San Diego, California. Oh, that ocean is so depressing. Oh, this 75 degree weather really taxes one’s soul...

1 - noah And The Whale - The First Days Of Spring

I got turned onto this band by NPR. This album was described as "the best breakup album ever". After listening to it once, I decided that they were right and that maybe I should divorce my wife and sit on the beach at 2 a.m. with this album playing through my headphones while I drank 3 bottles of Charles Shaw merlot. I didn’t but in a Groundhog Day type reality, I would and this album would be PERFECT!

Best concert of 2009

Woven Hand

You do NOT want to make eye contact with David Eugene Edwards EVER! He knows what evil lays within the hearts of Man. Also, how can a pentecostal southern man be so damn sexy?!?

Biggest musical dissapointment 2009

U2 - "No Line On The Horizon"

Please stop. Please.

Most overrated album of 2009

The XX

Sorry, Tex. They suck...

Most anticipated album of 2010

Sufjan Stevens

I hear rumors...

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