Tag: bestof

This was a tough year for me to compile a list. Although, as always, there was great music released this year, I found myself mostly buying older stuff. In fact, my discovery of the year was probably Delta 5, who made music from 1979-1981. That being said, I’ll rank every complete album and EP I bought this year (a few physically, most through eMusic. Entries marked with asterisks were downloaded either free or at a significant discount (ie. the Fanfarlo album was given away for $1)

1. The xx – xx
2. Handsome Furs – Face Control
3. múm – Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know
4. Years – Years
5. The Raveonettes – In and Out of Control
6. Fanfarlo – Reservoir*
7. Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
8. Wilco – Wilco (the album)
9. Metric – Fantasies

Not ranked because I haven’t listened to them enough:

• Timber Timbre – Timber Timbre*
• Do Make Say Think – Other Truths
• The Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning*

I thought I’d rank EPs separately:

1. Ume – Sunshower
2. Suburban Kids with Biblical Names – #4

Here are some of the “pro’s” lists:

• Chromewaves’ Favourite Albums of 2009
• Pitchfork Top 50 Albums of 2009
• Pitchfork Top 100 Tracks of 2009
• Allmusic’s Favorite Albums of 2009
• Last.fm’s Albums of the Year

• My Best of 2008
• My Best of 2007

How about you? What were some of your favourites?