December 16, 2009
The entrée of the best meal of the year. Can’t wait for dessert…
| 40 | Lady Gaga Fame Monster When was the last time someone that far out there made it that high up there? |
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| 39 | The Low Anthem Oh My God, Charlie Darwin Out of nowhere and into our hearts in a matter of months. |
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| 38 | Elvis Perkins in Dearland Elvis Perkins in Dearland Singer/songwriter embraces the ensemble & a sunnier outlook on life. Full review |
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| 37 | Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything To Nothing As much angst and as many beefed up riffs you could ever hope to hear from a young punk/grunge outfit. Full review |
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| 36 | Metric Fantasies Haines & Crew step up their game after a quick breath. “Stadium Love” at its finest. Full review |
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| 35 | Patrick Watson Wooden Arms More of the charming & orchestral Watson is welcome & necessary. Full review |
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| 34 | Charles Spearin The Happiness Project Nothing else in 2009 was as fascinating as the latest experiment from Broken Social Scene/Do Make Say Think’s Charles Spearin. Full review |
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| 33 | Shany Kedar Bloodlines A smoky chanteuse out of Tel Aviv picks up where Mazzy Star left off. Full review |
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| 32 | Andrew Bird Noble Beast An intricate showcase of Bird’s orchestral-minded talent. |
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| 31 | Air Love 2 The French duo show off why they’re the smoothest around. |
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| 30 | Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca Difficult at first, but then utterly rewarding. Full review |
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| 29 | White Lies To Lose My Life Anglo New Wave is brought back, again, with even more force. Full review |
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Sonic Youth |
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| 27 | The Big Pink A Brief History of Love The Big Pink successfully channel My Bloody Valentine and recreate the sound, feeling and Neo-psychedelia of ’90s Shoegaze. Full review |
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| 26 | Patrick Wolf The Bachelor The oddest, and possibly most creative, man in pop strikes again. |
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| 25 | Antlers Hospice The true-life tale of one band member’s struggle with cancer wrests art out of tragedy in the triumphant Hospice. |
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| 24 | Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career The Glaswegian outfit’s latest & sweetest. Full review |
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| 23 | Tegan & Sara Sainthood Canadian twins grow up & into their sound. Full review |
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| 22 | Loney Dear Dear John The Swedish multi-instrumentalist crafts his most daring album to date, full of folk pop beauty and darkness with occasional electronic undertones. Full review |
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| 21 | Harlem Shakes Technicolor Health Beating even the highest of expectations & anticipation. Oh, the places they could have gone. Full review |
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