Update:

1.(-). dead mellotron - Ghost Light Constellation 4*
2.(3). The Boxer Rebellion - Union
3.(-). The Lemonheads - Varshons
4.(-). The Warlocks - The Mirror Explodes
5.(-). The Bavarian Druglords - 205
6.(2). Super Furry Animals - Dark Days / Light Years
7.(-). The Dolly Rocker Movement - Our Days Mind the Tyme
8.(1). Doves - Kingdom of Rust
9.(-). Howard Eliott Payne - Bright Light Ballads
10.(4). A Shoreline Dream - Recollections of Memory

1. Celeste - Misanthrope(s) [4,5*]
2. Alpinist - Minus.Mensch [4,5*]
3. Artika - Heartwrencher [-]
4. The Human Quena Orchestra - The Politics Of The Irredeemable [-]
5. Gnaw - This Face [-]
6. P.O.S. - Never Better [-]
7. Kodiak - Kodiak [-]
8. Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity [-]
9. Hallowed Butchery - Funeral Rites for the Living [3,5*]
10. Graf Orlock - Destination Time: Today [-]

[-] = Ik moet hier nog op stemmen

1. Number Seven - Phideaux (5*)
2. Tick Tock - Gazpacho (5*)
3. Vision - Martigan (5*)
4. Anno Domini High Definition - Riverside (4,5*)
5. Black Clouds & Silver Linings - Dream Theater (4*)
6. Frequency - IQ (4*)
7. Barbares - Nemo (4*)
8. Crack The Skye - Mastodon (4*)
9. Part The Second - Maudlin of The Well (4*)
10. The Hazards of Love - The Decemberists (3,5*)

Ook hier een update :

01. Tiny Vipers - Life on Earth (5*)
02. Gazpacho - Tick Tock (4,5*)
03. Wooden Shjips - Dos (4,5*)
04. Silversun Pickups - Swoon (4,5*)
05. Riverside - Anno Domini Definition (4,5*)
06. Hacride - Lazarus (4,5*)
07. Joe Bonamassa - The Ballad of John Henry (4,5*)
08. The Mars Volta - Octahedron (4,5*)
09. He is Legend - It Hates You (4,5*)
10. Sólstafir - Köld (4,5*)

Het jaar wordt er beter en beter op. Zit aan precies 50 stemmen.

1. Antigama - Warning 4.5*
2. Death Before Dishonor - Better Ways to Die
3. Suicide Silence - No Time to Bleed 4*
4. Hoods - Pit Beast
5. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
6. Job for a Cowboy - Ruination
7. Molotov Solution - The Harbinger
8. Ektomorf - What Doesn't Kill Me...
9. Earth Crisis - To the Death
10. Kingdom - The Rage that Guides

11. Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressive
12. Sworn Enemy - Total World Domination
13. Bleed from Within - Humanity
14. Maroon - Order
15. The Devil Wears Prada - With Roots Above and Branches Below
16. Impending Doom - The Serpent Servant
17. Martyr Defiled - Ecophagy
18. Crime Scene - Overcome
19. Nothing Between Us - Nothing Between Us
20. ABACABB - Survivalist 3.5*

Update:

=========== 4,5* ===========
01. Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate
02. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
=========== 4,0* ===========
03. Kasabian - The West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
04. Morrissey - Years of Refusal
05. The Bony King of Nowhere - Alas My Love
=========== 3,5* ===========
06. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
07. Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
08. Loney, Dear - Dear John
09. White Lies - To Lose My Life...
10. Jack Peñate - Everything Is New

1 (1) Scott Matthew – There Is an Ocean That Divides
2 (2) Antony and the Johnsons – The Crying Light
3 (3) Patrick Wolf – The Bachelor
4 (-) Jay Brannan - In Living Cover
5 (4) Morrissey - Years of Refusal
6 (5) Fanfarlo - Reservoir
7 (6) The Veils – Sun Gangs
8 (7) Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe
9 (8) Balmorhea – All Is Wild, All Is Silent
10 (12) Archive - Controlling Crowds

11 (10) Karima Francis – The Author
12 (11) Pet Shop Boys - Yes
13 (13) Doves – Kingdom of Rust
14 (14) Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
15 (9) Gazpacho – Tick Tock
16 (15) U2 – No Line on the Horizon
17 (16) Röyksopp – Junior
18 (17) Franz Ferdinand – Tonight
19 (18) Lucky Fonz III – A Family Like Yours
20 (19) God Help the Girl - God Help the Girl

Het begint ergens op te lijken.

4,5*
1. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns (2009)
2. Elegi - Varde (2009)
3. The Field - Yesterday and Today (2009)
4. Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself (2009)
5. Nathan Fake - Hard Islands (2009)
6. Moritz von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent (2009)

4*
7. Fever Ray - Fever Ray (2009)
8. In Flagranti - Brash & Vulgar
9. Black Meteoric Star - Black Meteoric Star
10. Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care

5*
Elbow & The BBC Concert Orchestra - The Seldom Seen Kid
Peter Adams - I Woke With Planets In My Face

4,5*
Andrew Bird - Nobel Beast
Bell X1 - Blue Lights on the Runway
Fanfarlo - Reservoir
Loney Dear - Dear John

4,25*
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
Scott Matthew - There Is An Ocean That Divides
Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor

4*
Charlie Winston - Hobo
Phideaux - Number 7
Barzin - Notes To An Absent Lover
Broken Records - Until The Earth Begins To Part
Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey & The GrooGrux King

3,75*
Con Law - Generationals
Moneybrother - Real Control
Yodelice - Tree of Life
The Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice - Moon Colony Bloodbath EP
Player Piano - Into The Dark EP
Grand Campbell - Expecting Great Things
The Bony King of Nowhere - Alas My Love
Gazpacho - Tick Tock
The Alexandria Quartet - The Alexandria Quartet
The Builders And The Butchers - Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well
Piers Faccini - Two Grains of Sand
Ruarri Joseph - Both Sides of the Coin

3,5*
Fun. - Aim and Ignite
Official Secrets Act - Understanding Electricity
Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up
The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage
Richard Swift - The Atlantic Ocean

Maar weer eens een update:

01. P.O.S. - Never Better 4*
02. Archive - Controlling Crowds
03. CYNE - Water for Mars
04. Soap&Skin - Lovetune for Vacuum
05. De La Soul - Are You In?: Nike+ Original Run
06. Atmosphere - Leak at Will
07. Gazpacho - Tick Tock
08. Inf - The Go Round
09. Cage - Depart from Me
10. Kop & Ernst - Kopstoot

11. DOOM - Born Like This
12. Nosaj Thing - Drift
13. The Super Chron Flight Brothers - Indonesia
14. D-Sisive - Let the Children Die
15. Brother Ali - The Truth Is Here
16. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!
17. Elegi - Varde
18. Reptile71 - In Dust: 2000-2003
19. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Basement Demos EP
20. Eligh & Jo Wilkinson - On Sacred Ground

21. Kero One - Early Believers
22. Awol One & Factor - Owl Hours 3,5*
23. Blame One - Days Chasing Days
24. Torae & Marco Polo - Double Barrel
25. Zu - Carboniferous

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
The Field - Yesterday and Today
P.O.S. - Never Better
DOOM - Born Like This
Brother Ali - The Truth Is Here
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Mr. Lif - I Heard It Today
Fakkelbrigade - Colucci Era
Torae & Marco Polo - Double Barrel
The Grouch & Eligh - Say G&E!

01 (....) Taipuva Luotisuora - IV
02 (03) Øresund Space Collective - Good Planets Are Hard To Find
03 (02) ColorStar - ColorStar
04 (05) Queensrrÿche - American Soldier
05 (01) Korai Öröm - 2009
06 (04) Kamchatka - Volume III
07 (06) Quantum Fantay - Kaleidoscope
08 (07) The Derek Trucks Band - Already Free
09 (....) The Wishing Tree - Ostara
10 (....) De Staat - Waiting for Evolution

_____________________4.5___________________
1. (1) Oneida - Rated O
2 .(8) Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
3. (2) Sonic Youth - The Eternal

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4. (3) Wolves In the Throne Room - Black Cascade
5. (4) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
6. (5) William Basinski - 92982
7. (--) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
8. (--) Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship
9. (7) Julie Doiron - I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day
10. (--) Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem

Nu 10 albums gevonden met tenminste 4* (voorwaarde om in mijn jaarlijst opgenomen te worden). Natuurlijk een zéér voorlopige lijst met voornamelijk bekende namen of favorieten van mij, ik hoop nog een aantal parels te horen in 2009.

1. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
2. Leonard Cohen - Live in London
3. M. Ward - Hold Time
4. U2 - No Line on the Horizon
5. Simple Minds - Graffiti Soul
6. Doves - Kingdom of Rust
7. The Hickey Underworld - The Hickey Underworld
8. Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin
9. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
10. Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream

Mini-update:

1. Antigama - Warning 4.5*
2. Providence - Far Beyond Our Depth
3. Earth Crisis - To the Death 4*
4. Oceano - Depths
5. Hoods - Pit Beast
6. Suicide Silence - No Time to Bleed
7. Kingdom - The Rage That Guides
8. Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressive
9. Ektomorf - What Doesn't Kill Me...
10. Death Before Dishonor - Better Ways to Die

1. The Field - Yesterday and Today
2. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
3. Black Meteoric Star - Black Meteoric Star
4. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
5. Yagya - Rigning
6. Omar-S - Detroit (Fabric 45)
7. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
8. British Sea Power - Man of Aran
9. Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Through the Devil Softly
10. Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care

Inmiddels een aantal maanden verder, dus het wordt tijd voor enige aanpassingen.

1. John Zorn - Filmworks XXIII El General
2. Mountains - Choral
3. Lawrence English - A Colour for Autumn
4. Asher Miniatures
5. Motohiro Nakashima - We Hum on the Way Home
6. Masada Quintet featering Joe Lovano - Stolas; Book of Angels vol. 12
7. Elegi - Varde
8. Ethan Rose - Oaks
9. Seaworthy - 1897
10. Bill Frisell - Disfarmer

reissues :
A Broken Consort - Box of Birch
The Caretaker - Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia

ik ben de draad helemaal kwijt, zoveel goeds gehoord dat ik ff niet meer kan kiezen. Maar goed, nog 4 maanden te gaan

1. Silversun Pickups - Swoon (4.5*)
2. Thursday - Common Existence (4*)
3. Animal Collective - Merriweater Post Pavillion
4. xRepresentx - The New Inquisition
5. Metric - Fantasies
6. Anti-Flag - The People or the Gun
7. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
8. Trapped Under Ice - Secrets of the World
9. Alpinist - Minus.Mensch
10. Lacrosse - Bandages for the Heart (3.5*)

Misschien toch zoiets:

1 Asher - Miniatures
2The Puddle Parade - Origami
3 Mountains - Choral
4 Tu M' - Monochromes Vol. 1
5 SND - Atavism
6 Celer - Capri
7 Lawrence English - A Colour For Autumn
8 EARLabs3 - Helix
9 Tomas Phillips - Six Notes
10 Elegi - Varde

update :

01. (01). Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind (4,5*)
02. (02). The Veils - Sun Gangs
03. (03). White Lies - To Lose My Life... (4,0*)
04. (04). Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light (3,5*)
05. (---). Matthew Sweet & Susannah Hoffs - Under the Covers Vol. 2
06. (07). Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
07. (---). Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
08. (---). Placebo - Battle for the Sun
09. (05). Doves - Kingdom of Rust
10. (06). Andrew Bird - Noble Beast

2009 wil nog niet zo erg bij mij. Een hoop goede platen maar weinig uitschieters. Hopelijk kunnen de nieuwe albums van Soulsavers, Muse, Editors en Pearl Jam daar wat aan veranderen.

update:

01. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
02. Soap&Skin - Lovetune for Vacuum
03. Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
04. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
05. Florence + The Machine - Lungs
06. Gazpacho - Tick Tock
07. M. Ward - Hold Time
08. Ghinzu - Mirror Mirror
09. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
10. Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane

Zoiets is het bij mij. Heb al 11 releases met 4,5* dit jaar, eentje meer dan vorig jaar. In 2007 had ik 10 releases met 4,5*, maar ook 3 met 5*.

1. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
2. The XX - XX
3. Yacht - See Mystery Lights
4. The Field - Yesterday and Today
5. Elegi - Varde
6. Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
7. Nathan Fake - Hard Islands
8. Moritz von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
9. Black Meteoric Star - Black Meteoric Star
10. Hell - Teufelswerk

Een poging maar eens!

1. Die Reitende Leichen - Blutgericht
2. The Shock Technician - SuperGAU
3. Shoko Nakagawa - Magic Time
4. Ecoute la Merde / Fuck, the Retarded Girl - Split CS
5. V/A - The Rodent Is Alive
6. Kashiwa Daisuke - 5 Dec
7. Masada Quintet ft. Joe Lovano - Stolas: Book of Angels Vol. 12
8. Four Flies - Five Women for the Killer
9. Feldman, Caine, Cohen, Baron - Secrets
10. AxemRangers - Best of the Basement, Year 2

1.Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
2.Fever Ray - Fever Ray
3.Burnt By The Sun - Heart Of Darkness
4.PJ Harvey And John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
5.The Field - Yesterday And Today
6.Tiga - Ciao! Tiga
7.Dan Deacon - Bromst
8.Lamb Of God - Wrath
9.Fakkelbrigade - Colluci Era
10.The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
11.Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away
12.The Juan MacLean - The Future Will Come
13.Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
14.Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
15.Mastodon - Crack The Skye
16.Doom - Born Like This
17.Mos Def - The Ecstatic
18.Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
19.Discovery - LP
20.Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
21.U2 - No Line On The Horizon
22.Major Lazer - Guns Don´t Kill People.... Lazers Do
23.Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II
24.Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
25.Moderat - Moderat

tussenstand:

01. [01.] Super Furry Animals - Dark Days / Light Years
02. [02.] The Horrors - Primary Colours
03. [05.] The Juan MacLean - The Future Will Come
04. [----] Gliss - Devotion Implosion
05. [08.] Hell - Teufelswerk
06. [03.] The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
07. [----] Kasabian - The West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
08. [06.] Röyksopp - Junior
09. [----] The Warlocks - The Mirror Explodes
10. [09.] The Rifles - Great Escape

Update:

=========== 4,5* ===========
01. Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate
02. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
=========== 4,0* ===========
03. Kasabian - The West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
04. Absynthe Minded - Absynthe Minded
05. Morrissey - Years of Refusal
06. The Bony King of Nowhere - Alas My Love
=========== 3,5* ===========
07. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
08. Jack Peñate - Everything Is New
09. White Lies - To Lose My Life...
10. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

01. (01) Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
02. (***) Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
03. (***) James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players - Folk Songs
04. (02) Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
05. (03) Ethan Rose - Oaks
06. (***) Oneida - Rated O
07. (04) The Boy Least Likely To - The Law of the Playground
09. (05) The Field - Yesterday and Today
09. (07) Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
10. (06) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

11. (08) Phosphorescent - To Willie
12. (***) Soap&Skin - Lovetune for Vacuum
13. (10) Handsome Furs - Face Control
14. (***) Bruce Peninsula - A Mountain Is a Mouth
15. (***) Joker's Daughter - The Last Laugh
16. (09) Julie Doiron - I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day
17. (11) The Little Hands of Asphalt - Leap Years
18. (***) James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
19. (12) Yagya - Rigning
20. (14) Sand Snowman - Two Way Mirror
21. (16) Crystal Antlers - Tentacles
22. (***) The Low Frequency in Stereo - Futuro
23. (15) Tomasz Bednarczyk - Painting Sky Together
24. (***) Ochre - Like Dust of the Balance
25. (17) Les Claypool - Of Fungi and Foe

Precies 10 albums uit 2009 beluisterd:

01 - 4.0*- Iron & Wine - Around the Well
02 - 4.0*- Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
03 - 4.0*- SubtractiveLAD - Where the Land Meets the Sky
04 - 4.0*- Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
05 - 3.5*- Modest Mouse - No One's First and You're Next
06 - 3.5*- Iron & Wine - Norfolk 06-20-05
07 - 3.0*- Phosphorescent - To Willie
08 - 3.0*- Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship
09 - 2.5*- Eels - Hombre Lobo
10 - 0.5*- Ronan Keating - Songs for My Mother

Wat teleurstellingen en missers maar overal gezien een leuk jaar.

01. Georgia Anne Muldrow - Umsindo 5*
02. Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love 4,5*
03. Nino Moschella - Boomshadow 4*
04. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Tell 'Em What Your Name Is
05. Little Dragon - Mahine Dreams
06. Obba Supa - To:AM, Free:AM
07. Crossrhodes - Limited Budget Unlimited Quality
08. Dudley Perkins - Holy Smokes
09. Georgia Anne Muldrow - Ms. One
10. PPP - Abundance