The indie girl’s guide to…fave albums of 2009
I know its February and I am very late with this but here goes anyways, some of my faves from 2009:
Best Overall Packaging - The BQE – Sufjan Stevens
Vinyl + comic book + movie + view-master reel = genius
Best Cover Art – Middle Cyclone – Neko Case
Car + sword + crazy type = forever cool
Best Soundtrack - The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Death Cab For Cutie, Bon Iver, St. Vincent, Thom Yorke, Lykke Li, Editors….
The teen vampire franchise went indie and it paid off…
Best Compilation – Dark Was The Night
I couldn’t dream up a better compilation, good cause, great artists!
Best Boy/Girl Duet – Slow Life – Grizzly Bear & Victoria Legrand
Close second: Bon Iver & St. Vincent’s Roslyn, followed by anything from The XX.
My fave records of 2009 are….
10- Middle Cyclone – Neko Case
9- Bitte Orca – Dirty Projectors
8- Dead Man’s Bones – Dead Man’s Bones
7- As Day Follows Night – Sarah Blasko
6- It’s Blitz – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5- Zounds – Dappled Cities
4- Fantasies – Metric
3- Veckatimest – Grizzly Bear
A near perfect record – I can’t imagine my world without Grizzly Bear in it.
2- Actor – St. Vincent
Annie Clark has a stunning voice…THIS IS LOVE.
1 – Two Suns - Bat For Lashes
I wholeheartedly fell in love with this album in 2009 from the tribal drumming of Glass all the way to through to the haunting vocals of The Big Sleep. AMAZING!
