10 favourite rekkids of 2009

[Jan]

It may be a bit early, but folks on another message board I frequent were posting theirs.

So, here is mine (in no particular order):

God Help the Girl ~ God Help the Girl
Dananananaykroyd ~ Hey Everyone!
The Twilight Sad ~ Forget the Night Ahead
Magnolia Electric Co. ~ Josephine
Great Lake Swimmers ~ Lost Channels
Brendan Benson ~ My old, Familiar Friend
Charlotte Hatherley ~ New Worlds
Silversun Pickups ~ Swoon
Pelican ~ What we all Come to Need
Bat for Lashes ~ Two Suns

Runner up: Animal Collective ~ Merriweather Post Pavillion

[eebs]

In no particular order -
Jason Lytle
Stardeath and White Dwarfs
The Horrors
The Prodigy
The Stupids
Dent May and his Magnificent Ukelele
Empire of the Sun
The Cribs
Tommy Reilly
Mumford & Sons
Animal Collective
Gallows
The Heavy
Joy Formidable

But the album I think I've played the most this year is Mariachi El Bronx -



Honoury mention to this song that I can't get out of my head at the moment - possibly as it sounds like a Ramones ripoff

[ifihadahifi]

I'm pathetic and uncool. I don't even know if I made an album purchase this year for my own pleasure.

How the heck did that happen?

[mr_j]

in no order and not necessarily ten

tortoise
dinosaur jr
jason lytle
god help the girl
blitzen trapper
mungolian jetset
sweet trip
califone
efterklang
lambchop
jonsi and alex

and i loved me some deluxe reissues: Radiohead, Saint Etienne, The Orb....

[sam]

Anyone like the Dawes? On the second listen, I noticed some of those lyrics are a little dark.

[katie]

i never come up with the right number, but here's my input.

top released in 09 rekkids:

the hazards of love - the decemberists
monsters of folk - monsters of folk
embryonic - the flaming lips
heave yer skeleton - mr. gnome
eskimo snow - why?
the life of the world to come - the mountain goats
rip it off - times new viking
up from below - edward sharpe & the magnetic zeroes

top not released in '09 rekkids that i just so happened to get into in '09:

skeletal lamping - of montreal
ratatat - ratatat
the dust of retreat - margot & the nuclear so and so's
who killed amanda palmer? - amanda palmer
inches - les savy fav
le pop - katzenjammer