Favourite Tracks of 2009

50 tracks of 2009

1. The Big Pink – Velvet (4AD)
2. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Stay Alive (Fortuna Pop!)
3. Bombay Bicycle Club – Dust On The Ground (Island)
4. Red Light Company – Meccano (Lavolta)
5. Noah And The Whale – Blue Skies (Vertigo)
6. The Maccabees – Can You Give It (Fiction)
7. Franz Ferdinand – No You Girls (Domino)
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero (Dress Up/Polydor)
9. Wild Beasts – All The King’s Men (Domino)
10. Girls – Laura (Fantasy Trashcan)
11. White Lies – To Lose My Life (Fiction)
12. The XX – VCR (Young Turks)
13. Bombay Bicycle Club – Always Like This (Island)
14. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Young Adult Friction (Fortuna Pop!)
15. Golden Silvers – True Romance (True No. 9 Blues) (XL)
16. The Cribs – Cheat On Me (Wichita)
17. The Drums – Let’s Go Surfing (Moshi Moshi)
18. 1990s – 59 (Rough Trade)
19. The Big Pink – Dominos (4AD)
20. Passion Pit – To Kingdom Come (Columbia/Frenchkiss)
21. God Help The Girl – Come Monday Night (Rough Trade)
22. The Maccabees – No Kind Words (Fiction)
23. Animal Collective – My Girls (Domino)
24. The Bishops – Wandering By (W2)
25. Wild Beasts – Hooting & Howling (Domino)
26. Red Light Company – Arts & Crafts (Lavolta)
27. Mumford & Sons – Winter Winds (Island)
28. Kasabian – Fire (Paradise)
29. Manic Street Preachers – Jackie Collins Existential Question Time (Columbia)
30. We Were Promised Jetpacks – Moving Clocks Running Slow (Fat Cat)
31. The Rumble Strips – Welcome To The Walk Alone (Fallout)
32. Idlewild – Take Me Back To The Islands (Cooking Vinyl)
33. It Hugs Back – Now + Again (4AD)
34. Girls – Hellhole Ratrace (Fantasy Trashcan)
35. Cornershop – The Roll Off Characteristics (Of History In The Making) (Ample Play)
36. Art Brut – DC Comics And Chocolate Milkshake (Cooking Vinyl)
37. Peter Doherty – Last Of The English Roses (Parlophnoe)
38. Doves – Winter Hill (Heavenly)
39. Passion Pit – The Reeling (Columbia/Frenchkiss)
40. Sugar Ray – Love Is The Answer (Pulse)
41. The Horrors – Who Can Say (XL)
42. Muse – United States Of Eurasia (+ Collateral Damage) (Helium 3)
43. We Were Promised Jetpacks – Quiet Little Voices (Fat Cat)
44. The Cribs – Last Year’s Snow (Wichita)
45. Outrageous Cherry – Anymore (Alive)
46. Super Furry Animals – Mt. (Rough Trade)
47. British Sea Power – Boy Vertiginous (Rough Trade)
48. Muse – Uprising (Helium 3)
49. Kasabian – Where Did All the Love Go? (Paradise)
50. Lily Allen – The Fear (Regal)

Favourite Albums of 2009

Top 30 albums of 2009

1. The Maccabees – Wall Of Arms (Fiction)
2. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart (Fortuna Pop!)
3. The Big Pink – A Brief History Of Love (4AD)
4. Noah And The Whale – The First Days Of Spring (Vertigo)
5. Bombay Bicycle Club – I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose (Island)
6. Girls – Album (Fantasy Trashcan)
7. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers (Domino)
8. The Drums – Summertime! (Moshi Moshi)
9. White Lies – To Lose My Life (Fiction)
10. Pull Tiger Tail – PAWS. (New Art, Please)
11. Passion Pit – Manners (Columbia/Frenchkiss)
12. A Place To Bury Strangers – Exploding Head (Mute)
13. The XX – The XX (Young Turks)
14. Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (Paradise)
15. The Horrors – Primary Colours (XL)
16. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz! (Dress Up/Polydor)
17. Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers (Columbia)
18. The Cribs – Ignore The Ignorant (Wichita)
19. Red Light Company – Fine Fascination (Lavolta)
20. The Rumble Strips – Welcome To The Walk Alone (Fallout)
21. It Hugs Back – Inside Your Guitar (4AD)
22. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
23. Cornershop – Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast (Ample Play)
24. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (Warp)
25. Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications (Rough Trade)
26. 1990s – Kicks (Rough Trade)
27. Super Furry Animals – Dark Nights/Light Years (Rough Trade)
28. Julian Casablancas – Phrazes For The Young (Rough Trade)
29. Golden Silvers – True Romance (XL)
30. British Sea Power – Man Of Aran (Rough Trade)

The Best Half 2009

The best albums so far, up to June 2009.

In random order:
White Lies – To Lose My Life (Fiction)
Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart (Fortuna Pop!)
The Bishops – For Now (W2)
Red Light Company – Fine Fascination (Lavolta)
1990s – Kicks (Rough Trade)
It Hugs Back – Inside Your Guitar (4AD)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz! (Dress Up/Polydor)
Super Furry Animals – Dark Nights/Light Years (Rough Trade)
Golden Silvers – True Romance (XL)
British Sea Power – Man Of Aran (Rough Trade)
The Maccabees – Wall Of Arms (Fiction)
Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications (Rough Trade)
Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers (Columbia)
Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (Paradise)
The Rumble Strips – Welcome To The Walk Alone (Fallout)
God Help The Girl – God Help The Girl (Rough Trade)

Top 50 of 2008

ALBUMS
 1. Glasvegas – Glasvegas (Columbia)
 2. Black Kids – Partie Traumatic (Almost Gold)
 3. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend (XL)
 4. Foals – Antidotes (Transgressive)
 5. British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music? (Rough Trade)
 6. Mystery Jets – Twenty One (679)
 7. The Killers – Day & Age (Vertigo)
 8. Spiritualized – Songs In A&E (Spaceman)
 9. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular (Columbia)
10. The Young Knives – Superabundance (Transgressive)
11. Weezer – Weezer (Polydor)
12. My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges (Rough Trade)
13. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – My Bloody Underground (A)
14. Delays – Everything’s The Rush (Fiction)
15. Ladyhawke – Ladyhawke (Island)
16. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (Bella Union)
17. Los Campesinos! – We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (Wichita)
18. The Verve – Forth (Parlophone)
19. Lightspeed Champion – Falling Off The Lavender Bridge (Domino)
20. Primal Scream – Beautiful Future (B-Unique)
21. The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age Of Understatement (Domino)
22. The Courteeners – St. Jude (Polydor)
23. Deerhunter – Microcastle (4AD)
24. I Was A Cub Scout – I Want You To Know That There Is Always Hope (XL)
25. Late Of The Pier – Fantasy Black Channel (Parlophone)
26. One Night Only – Started A Fire (Vertigo)
27. The Pigeon Detectives – Emergency (Dance To The Radio)
28. Fucked Up – The Chemistry Of Common Life (Matador)
29. Hercules And Love Affair – Hercules And Love Affair (DFA)
30. Canjun Dance Party – The Colourful Life (XL)
31. The Rascals – Rascalize (Deltasonic)
32. Ra Ra Riot – The Rhumb Line (Barsuk)
33. Coldplay – Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (Parlophone)
34. The Spinto Band – Moonwink (Fierce Panda)
35. Mogwai – The Hawk Is Howling (Wall Of Sound)
36. The Beep Seals – Things That Roar (Heron)
37. Islands – Arm’s Way (Rough Trade)
38. Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs (Atlantic)
39. The Draytones – Up In My Head (1965)
40. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid (Fiction)
41. Does It Offend You, Yeah? – You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into (Virgin)
42. Los Campesinos! – Hold On Now, Youngster… (Wichita)
43. Sons And Daughters – This Gift (Domino)
44. James – Hey Ma (Mercury)
45. Tindersticks – The Hungry Saw (Beggars Banquet)
46. The Automatic – This Is A Fix (B-Unique)
47. These New Puritans – Beat Pyramid (Domino)
48. The Dandy Warhols – …Earth To The Dandy Warhols… (V2)
49. The Teenagers – Reality Check (XL)
50. Oasis – Dig Out Your Soul (Big Brother)

 

TRACKS
 1. Black Kids – I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (Almost Gold)
 2. MGMT – Time To Pretend (Columbia)
 3. British Sea Power – Waving Flags (Rough Trade)
 4. Mystery Jets – Two Doors Down (679)
 5. Foals – Cassius (Transgressive)
 6. The Killers – This Is Your Life (Vertigo)
 7. Vampire Weekend – A-Punk (XL)
 8. Weezer – Pork And Beans (Polydor)
 9. Fleet Foxes – Your Protector (Bella Union)
10. Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma (XL)
11. The Feeling – Without You (Island)
12. Delays – Keep It Simple (Fiction)
13. The Pigeon Detectives – Keep On Your Dress (Dance To The Radio)
14. Glasvegas – Geradine (Columbia)
15. Black Kids – I’ve Underestimated My Charm (Again) (Almost Gold)
16. Vampire Weekend – Walcott (XL)
17. Adam Green – Morning After Midnight (Rough Trade)
18. British Sea Power – No Lucifier (Rough Trade)
19. The Pigeon Detectives – Everybody Wants Me (Dance To The Radio)
20. The Young Knives – Turn Tail (Transgressive)
21. The Killers – Human (Vertigo)
22. Elbow – One Day Like This (Fiction)
23. Glasvegas – It’s My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry (Sane Man)
24. Mystery Jets – Young Love (679)
25. My Morning Jacket – I’m Amazed (Rough Trade)
26. Coldplay – Violet Hill (Parlophone)
27. Chairlift – Bruises (Kanine)
28. Kings Of Leon – Sex On Fire (Hand Me Down)
29. Correcto – Joni (Domino)
30. Spiritualized – Soul On Fire (Spaceman)
31. Primal Scream – Can’t Go Back (B-Unique)
32. The Last Shadow Puppet – My Mistakes Were Made For You (Domino)
33. Does It Offend You, Yeah? – Dawn Of The Dead (Virgin)
34. Delays – Hooray (Fiction)
35. White Lies – Unfinished Business (Chess Club)
36. The Verve – Love Is Noise (Parlophone)
37. The Automatic – Steve McQueen (B-Unique)
38. Hercules And Love Affair – Blind (DFA)
39. The Kooks – Always Where I Need To Be (Virgin)
40. I Was A Cub Scout – Lucean (XL)
41. Pia Fraus – Yenissey (Seksound)
42. Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong – Baby (Vertigo)
43. The Draytones – Turn It Down (1965)
44. Foals – Olympic Airwaves (Transgressive)
45. The Rascals – Freakbeat Phantom (Deltasonic)
46. M.I.A. – Paper Planes (XL)
47. Vampire Weekend – Cape Code Kawassa Kawassa (XL)
48. The Mase Shi – Run To Your Grave (Moshi Moshi)
49. One Night Only – Just For Tonight (Vertigo)
50. Oasis – I’m Outta Time (Big Brother)

Top 25 half 2008

The best or the better half 2008 are…

 

in date of release order

 

British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music? (Rough Trade)
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend (XL)
These New Puritans – Beat Pyramid (Domino)
I Was A Cub Scout – I Want You To Know That There Is Always Hope (Abeano/XL)
The Young Knives – Superabundance (Transgressive)

 

MGMT – Oracular Spectacular (Red Ink)
Adam Green – Sixes And Sevens (Rough Trade)
The Teenagers – Reality Check (XL)
Foals – Antidotes (Transgressive)
Mystery Jets – Twenty One (679)

 

Does It Offend You, Yeah? – You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into (Virgin)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre – My Bloody Underground (A)
James – Hey Ma (Mercury)
Eight Legs – Searching For The Simple Life (Weekender)
The Courteeners – St. Jude (Polydor)

 

The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age Of Understatement (Domino)
Canjun Dance Party – The Colourful Life (XL)
The Draytones – Up In My Head (1965)
Delays – Everything’s The Rush (Fiction)
Spiritualized – Songs In A&E (Spaceman)

 

The Pigeon Detectives – Emergency (Dance To The Radio)
My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges (Rough Trade)
Sloan – Parallel Play (Yep Roc)
Coldplay – Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (Parlophone)
Weezer – Weezer (Polydor)

Top 50 of 2007

Albums of the year

 1. The Cribs – Men’s Need, Women’s Needs, Whatever (Wichita)
 2. The Enemy – We’ll Live And Die In These Towns (Warner Bros.)
 3. The Rumble Strips – Girls And Weather (Fallout/Island)
 4. iLiKETRAiNS – Elegies To Lessons Learnt (Beggars Banquet)
 5. The Shins – Wincing The Night Away (Transgressive)
 6. Babyshambles – Shotter’s Nation (Parlophone)
 7. Chikinki – Brace, Brace (Weekender)
 8. Black Lips – Good Bad Not Evil (Vice)
 9. Super Furry Animals – Hey Venus! (Rough Trade)
10. Tiny Dancers – Free School Milk (Parlophone)
11. 1990s – Cookies (Rough Trade)
12. The Procession – Musique Magnifique (Nude)
13. The Warlocks – Heavy Deavy Skull Lover (Tee Pee)
14. Six By Seven – If Symptoms Persist, Kill Your Doctor (Saturday Night Sunday Morning)
15. The Hives – The Black And White Album (Polydor)
16. Klaxons – Myths Of The Near Future (Rinse/Polydor)
17. The Twang – Love It When I Feel Like This (B-Unique)
18. Mumm-Ra – These Things Move In Threes (Columbia)
19. The Crimea – Secrets Of The Witching Hour (Free Two One)
20. Alterkicks – Do Everything I Taught You (B-Unique)
21. Maximo Park – Our Earthly Pleasures (Warp)
22. Manic Street Preachers – Send Away The Tigers (Columbia)
23. The Redwalls – The Redwalls (Mad Dragon)
24. The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (Sonovox/Mercury)
25. The Pigeon Detectives – Wait For Me (Dance To The Radio)
26. Apartment – The Dreamer Evasive (Fleet Street)
27. Kaiser Chiefs – Yours Truly, Angry Mob (B-Unique)
28. The White Stripes – Icky Thump (XL)
29. The Bravery – The Sun And The Moon (Polydor)
30. Maps – We Can Create (Mute)
31. The View – Hats Off To The Buskers (1965)
32. Good Shoes – Think Before You Speak (Brille)
33. Art Brut – It’s A Bit Complicated (Mute)
34. Jakobinarina – The First Crusade (Regal)
35. Grand National – A Drink And A Quick Decision (Recall)
36. Battle – Break The Banks (Transgressive)
37. The Aliens – Astronomy For Dogs (Pet Rock)
38. The Polyphonic Spree – The Fragile Army (Gut)
39. The Coral – Roots & Echoes (Deltasonic)
40. Reverend And The Makers – The State Of Things (Wall Of Sound)
41. Gruff Rhys – Candylion (Rough Trade)
42. Shitdisco – Kingdom Of Fear (Fierce Panda)
43. Hard-Fi – Once Upon A Time In The West (Atlantic)
44. !!! – Myth Takes (Warp)
45. The Wombats – A Guide To Love, Loss And Desperation (14th Floor)
46. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Baby 81 (Island)
47. Mark Ronson – Version (Columbia)
48. Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare (Domino)
49. Nine Black Alps – Love/Hate (Island)
50. Travis – The Boy With No Name (Independiente)

Tracks of the year

 1. The Arcade Fire – Intervention (Sonovox/Mercury)
 2. The Enemy – You’re Not Alone (Warner Bros.)
 3. The Rumble Strips – Oh Creole (Fallout/Island)
 4. The Cribs – Moving Pictures (Wichita)
 5. The Arcade Fire – No Cars Go (Sonovox/Mercury)
 6. Manic Street Preachers – AutumnSong (Columbia)
 7. The Cribs – Men’s Needs (Wichita)
 8. Taken By Trees – Lost And Found (Rough Trade)
 9. Travis – Closer (Independiente)
10. Kaiser Chiefs – Ruby (B-Unique)
11. Tiny Dancers – Hannah We Know (Parlophone)
12. Arctic Monkeys – Florescent Adolescent (Domino)
13. Pull Tiger Tail – Let’s Lightning (B-Unique)
14. Hard-Fi – Suburban Knights (Atlantic)
15. iLiKETRAiNS – The Deception (Beggars Banquet)
16. Nine Black Alps – Bitter End (Island)
17. Klaxons – Golden Skans (Rinse/Polydor)
18. Glasvegas – Daddy’s Gone (Sane-Man)
19. The Bravery – Bad Sun (Polydor)
20. The Pigeon Detectives – I Found Out (Dance To The Radio)
21. Mumm-Ra – Out Of The Question (Columbia)
22. Maximo Park – Girls Who Play Guitars (Warp)
23. 1990s – See You At The Lights (Rough Trade)
24. The Cribs – I’ve Tried Everything (Wichita)
25. Super Furry Animals – Run-Away (Rough Trade)
26. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – All You Do Is Talk (Island)
27. Mumm-Ra – She’s Got You High (Columbia)
28. iLiKETRAiNS – Spencer Perceval (Beggars Banquet)
29. The Coral – Who’s Gonna Find Me (Deltasonic)
30. Dealys – Love Made Visible (Fiction)
31. The Dykeenies – New Ideas (Lavolta)
32. Guillemots – Annie, Lets Not Wait (Polydor)
33. Apartment – Pressures (Fleet Street)
34. Babyshambles – Delivery (Parlophone)
35. The Shins – Turn On Me (Transgressive)
36. Lavender Diamond – Oh No (Rough Trade)
37. The Cooper Temple Clause – What Have You Gone And Done? (Sequel)
38. GoodBooks – Passchendaele (Columbia)
39. Ash – End Of The World (Warner Bros.)
40. The Electric Soft Parade – If That’s The Case, Then I Don’t Know (Truck)
41. Gruff Rhys – Candylion (Rough Trade)
42. Cajun Dance Party – The Next Untouchable (Way Out West)
43. Six By Seven – Radio Silence (Saturday Night Sunday Morning)
44. The Aliens – Setting Sun (Pet Rock)
45. James – Who Are You? (Mercury)
46. The Twang – Either Way (B-Unique)
47. The Polyphonic Spree – Running Away (Gut)
48. The Courteeners – Cavorting (Loog)
49. The Killers – Tranquilize (Vertigo)
50. Battle – Paper Street (Transgressive)