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Top 10 Albums of 2009 – No.1
No. 1 Noah and The Whale – The First Days of Spring After 2008’s Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down, Twickenham folk-poppers Noah and The Whale were dismissed by many as overly twee, folk-by-numbers con artists. However, their breakthrough single 5 Years Time, with it’s ukulele intro and chant-along chorus (bolstered by the addition of [...]
Top 10 Albums of 2009 – No.2
No.2 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz If the years preceding 2009 saw guitars infiltrating the pop consciousness once again, then 2009 itself must surely be remembered as the year in which PVC-clad women armed with grubby synthesisers wrestled the power back (Litte Boots, La Roux, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lady Gaga,). However, as with every [...]
Top 10 Albums of 2009 – No.3
No. 3 The Low Anthem – Oh My God, Charlie Darwin With the critical acclaim that was laid upon Fleet Foxes’ 2008 debut, the door for ethereal, chamber-folk was once was again nudged open. Rhode Island’s The Low Anthem will be forever thankful. After being delayed a number of times, not only was Oh My [...]
Top 10 Albums of 2009 – No.4
No.4 Jamie T – Kings & Queens After his 2007 debut Panic Prevention, many were calling Wimbledon’s Jamie Treays the new Joe Strummer. The cascades of clever lyricisms pouring out in a familiar cockney drawl reminiscent of The Clash’s front man lead many to see the resemblance. Of course, as so often is with such [...]
Top 10 Albums of 2009 – No.5
No.5 Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More Mumford & Sons are on odd bunch – four Londoners in thrall to the banjo-plucking bluegrass of the American South. On paper it shouldn’t work, however upon listening to their debut album Sigh No More, it quickly becomes clear that it does. Sigh No More ushers the [...]
Top 10 Albums of 2009 – No.6
N0.6 Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Phoenix’s fifth album, the wonderfully titled Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, finally sees the French band realise the potential that has been seen in each one of their four preceding releases. Such a step forward for them was it that a Grammy nomination came their way for Best Alternative Album. That [...]
Top 10 Albums of 2009 – No.7
No.7 A.A Bondy – When The Devil’s Loose As a break from his day job with indie group Verbena, A.A Bondy recorded two solo albums of soft, minimalist folk. When The Devil’s Loose, the second of these, didn’t bother the charts either side of the Atlantic, which is a rather great shame. Bondy’s voice certainly [...]
Top 10 Albums of 2009 – No.8
No.8 Broken Records – Until The Earth Begins To Part If you could imagine for a second that Arcade Fire were fronted by Bruce Springsteen, you may get somewhere near the awe-inspiring racket that Broken Records make. For this comparison to truly work however, The Boss would had to have grown up under the grey [...]
Top 10 Albums of 2009 – No.9
No.9 Passion Pit – Manners On first listen, Passion Pit may not make much sense. Their music sounds like the soundtrack to a lost SNES game, their singer Michael Angelakosa seemingly impersonating a falsetto obsessed man-child. However, over the course of their debut album Manners, it all becomes fantastically clear. Building from where their Chunk [...]
Top 10 Albums of 2009 – No. 10
No. 10 The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You When, in 2008, The Avett Brothers signed to Columbia’s American Recordings from their independent home of Ramseur, many fans feared that the brutal world of major labels would be too much for the South Carolina brothers Scott and Seth. After listening to their first [...]
