Previously: 100-81, 80-61, 60-41. As we're nearly done with this now, can I start soliciting your own favourites of 2009? I think last year I tried to compile a chart from your submissions, so if I get enough, I'll have another go after Christmas. In the meantime, it may be worth pointing out that this is really not meant to be some cast-iron critical view of 2009, and anyone interpreting as such what is, ultimately a fairly arbitrary list of my favourite records, might just be taking it a tad too seriously. I'd like to pretend I spent days agonising over whether Sleepy Sun should be placed at 32 or 31, but ultimately it's a rough snapshot of the things I liked most in 2009; maybe it might have been more honest - albeit not so much fun - to resist putting them in numerical order. For something more substantial and, relatively, definitive - based on the lists of, if I remember right, 44 journalists - you should check out the Albums Of The Year charts in the current issue of Uncut. But anyway... 40. The xx: "xx" 39. Espers: "III" 38. The Unthanks: “Here’s The Tender Coming” 37. Leonard Cohen: "Live In London" 36. Them Crooked Vultures: "Them Crooked Vultures" 35. Sufjan Stevens: "The BQE" 34. Califone: "All My Friends Are Funeral Singers" 33. The Field: "Yesterday And Today" 32. Sleepy Sun: "Embrace" 31. Tim Buckley: "Live At The Folklore Center, NYC – March 6, 1967" 30. Broadcast And The Focus Group: “Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age” 29. Glass Rock: “Tall Firs Meet Soft Location” 28. Ganglians: "Monster Head Room" 27. Kurt Vile: "Childish Prodigy" 26. Super Furry Animals: "Dark Days/ Light Years" 25. The Necks: "Silverwater" 24. Real Estate: "Real Estate" 23. Trembling Bells: "Carbeth" 22. Raphael Saadiq: "The Way I See It" 21. Reigning Sound: "Love And Curses" And finally: 20-1.
Previously: 100-81, 80-61, 60-41. As we’re nearly done with this now, can I start soliciting your own favourites of 2009?
I think last year I tried to compile a chart from your submissions, so if I get enough, I’ll have another go after Christmas. In the meantime, it may be worth pointing out that this is really not meant to be some cast-iron critical view of 2009, and anyone interpreting as such what is, ultimately a fairly arbitrary list of my favourite records, might just be taking it a tad too seriously. I’d like to pretend I spent days agonising over whether Sleepy Sun should be placed at 32 or 31, but ultimately it’s a rough snapshot of the things I liked most in 2009; maybe it might have been more honest – albeit not so much fun – to resist putting them in numerical order.
For something more substantial and, relatively, definitive – based on the lists of, if I remember right, 44 journalists – you should check out the Albums Of The Year charts in the current issue of Uncut. But anyway…
40. The xx: “xx”
39. Espers: “III”
38. The Unthanks: “Here’s The Tender Coming”
37. Leonard Cohen: “Live In London”
36. Them Crooked Vultures: “Them Crooked Vultures”
34. Califone: “All My Friends Are Funeral Singers”
33. The Field: “Yesterday And Today”
31. Tim Buckley: “Live At The Folklore Center, NYC – March 6, 1967”
29. Glass Rock: “Tall Firs Meet Soft Location”
28. Ganglians: “Monster Head Room”
27. Kurt Vile: “Childish Prodigy”
26. Super Furry Animals: “Dark Days/ Light Years”
24. Real Estate: “Real Estate”
23. Trembling Bells: “Carbeth”
22. Raphael Saadiq: “The Way I See It”
21. Reigning Sound: “Love And Curses”
And finally: 20-1.
