Favorites of 2009!
more than 10 of course, and all Merge titles excluded as usual because that wouldn't be fair to the rest...
XX Merge marathon!
touring & eating in Japan
Bill Callahan – I Wish We Were An Eagle
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Amadou & Mariam – Welcome To Mali
Jim O’Rourke – The Visitor
Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs
Cass McCombs – Catacombs
St Vincent - Actor
Girls – Album
Pains of Being Pure at Heart – s/t
Monsters of Folk – Monsters of Folk
Mountain Goats – The Life of the World To Come
Wilco – Wilco (the Album)
Leonard Cohen live at Coachella and in Durham, NC
Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
Open Strings: Early Virtuoso Recordings, by Various LP Box Set
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
Obits – I Blame You
AC Newman – Get Guilty
Akron Family - Set Em Wild, Set Em Free
Reigning Sound - Love and Curses
posted by Mac at 8:55 AM
2 Comments:
My list would include:
--Okkervil River show in October 2009 as part of San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass fest in Golden Gate Park
--AC Newman - Get Guilty
--Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
--Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, the Commuter
--Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t
--Real Estate - s/t
--Big Star box set
--Lou Barlow - Goodnight Unknown
--Built to Spill - There is No Enemy
I'd also include, if it counts, the reissuing of The Mice albums (For Almost Ever Scooter), which I found out about on this blog. They just recently put out one of Fox's solo albums as well (on vinyl!).
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