Mar 29, 2009

2009 Quarter 1 Highlights

Sure, it is a little early in the year to start thinking about year-end lists and filing everything away in neat little boxes, but I also feel like the end of March is a good time to catch up on what great music has been released so far. With that in mind, here are twenty albums (presented in alphabetical order) and ten singles (roughly in order of enjoyment) that have made 2009 worth it so far.

Albums
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian)
Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand (VICE)
Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague (Metal Blade)
Cobalt - Gin (Profound Lore)
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love (Capitol)
The-Dream - Love vs. Money (Def Jam)
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
Glasvegas - Glasvegas (Sony)
Handsome Furs - Face Control (Sub Pop)
K'naan - Troubadour (A&M)
Kylesa - Static Tensions (Prosthetic)
Mastodon - Crack the Skye (Reprise)
Morrissey - Years of Refusal (Lost Highway)
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone (ANTI-)
Obscura - Cosmogenesis (Relapse)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Slumberland)
P.O.S. - Never Better (Rhymesayers)
Satyricon - The Age of Nero (Koch)
Tombs - Winterhours (Relapse)

Tracks
"My Girls" - Animal Collective
"Wavin' Flag" - K'naan
"My Life Would Suck Without You" - Kelly Clarkson
"Walkin' on the Moon" - The-Dream f. Kanye West
"The Fear" - Lily Allen
"My Love" - The-Dream f. Mariah Carey
"I'm Confused" - Handsome Furs
"The Rake's Song" - The Decemberists
"Divinations" - Mastodon
"I Do Not Hook Up" - Kelly Clarkson

No comments: