2009 : Singles* of the Year

No particular order, although Dirty Projectors take first prize.

Dirty Projectors - 'Stillness is the Move'

Burial & Four Tet - 'Moth'

HEALTH - 'Before Tigers' (CFCF remix)

Times New Viking - 'No Time, No Hope'

Joker - 'Digidesign'

Yo La Tengo - 'Gentle Hour'

Beach House - 'Norway'

Darkstar - 'Aidy's Girl's a Computer'

Zomby - 'Tarantula'

Animal Collective - 'What Would I Want? Sky'

HEALTH - 'Die Slow'

Lil Wayne and Grizzly Bear - '2 Weeks 'til Prom'

Toro Y Moi - 'Blessa'

Riceboy Sleeps - 'Happiness'

Here We Go Magic - 'Tunnelvision'

Ganglians - 'Blood on the Sand'

Martyn & D-Bridge - 'These Words'

Small Black - Despicable Dogs'

Lovvers - '100 Flowers'

Tune-Yards - 'Hatari'

Wildbirds & Peacedrums - 'My Heart'

Ratface - 'Fruit an Veg'


* obviously, the word 'singles' is pretty irrelevant these days so far as its original meaning goes, but the intention has been to avoid including album tracks that haven't been 'released' individually.

Albums / Singles of the Year .... for now

OK so i was asked to send in a list of my Top 20 albums and singles for the year 2009. This will probably be revised before the end of the year (i still haven't got Fuck Buttons' new record, for a start), but here's the first draft anyway, and I wouldn't expect it to change too much:

ALBUMS:

1 – BAT FOR LASHES – Two Suns

2 – WILDBIRDS & PEACEDRUMS – The Snake

3 – FEVER RAY – Fever Ray

4 – MICACHU & THE SHAPES – Jewellery

5 – JAPANDROIDS – Post-Nothing

6 – FLORENCE & THE MACHINE – Lungs

7 – YACHT – See Mystery Lights

8 – BIBIO – Ambivalence Avenue

9 – ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Merriweather Post Pavillion

10 - NEON INDIAN – Psychic Chasms

11 – WORRIEDABOUTSATAN – Arrivals

12 – FUTURE OF THE LEFT – Travels With Myself and Another

13 – MARTYN – Great Lengths

14 – PASSION PIT – Manners

15 – MANIC STREET PREACHERS – Journal for Plague Lovers

16 – GIRLS – Album

17 – DIRTY PROJECTORS – Bitte Orca

18 - THE HORRORS – Primary Colours

19 - SUNSET RUBDOWN – Dragonslayer

20 - TELEPATHE – Dance Mother

SINGLES:

1 – BURIAL & FOUR TET – 'Moth'

2 – WILDBIRDS & PEACEDRUMS – 'My Heart'

3 – TUNE-YARDS – 'Hatari'

4 – DIRTY PROJECTORS – 'Stillness is the Move'

5 – HEALTH – 'Before Tigers (CFCF remix)'

6 – TIMES NEW VIKING – 'No Time, No Hope'

7 – ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – 'My Girls'

8 – DARKSTAR – 'Aidy’s Girl’s a Computer'

9 – BAT FOR LASHES – 'Daniel'

10 – ATLAS SOUND – 'Walkabout'

11 – ZOMBY – 'Tarantula'

12 – HEALTH – 'Die Slow'

13 – GRIZZLY BEAR – 'Two Weeks'

14 – HERE WE GO MAGIC – 'Tunnelvision'

15 – PHOENIX – '1901'

16 – SUNSET RUBDOWN – 'Idiot Heart'

17 – SURF CITY – 'Autumn'

18 – THE ANTLERS – 'Two'

19 – YACHT – 'Psychic City'

20 – NEON INDIAN – 'Should Have Taken Acid With You'