2009 is bezig een erg mooi jaar te worden:

01. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
02. Built to Spill - There Is No Enemy
03. A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
04. Crystal Antlers - Tentacles
05. Phideaux - Number 7
06. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
07. Eels - Hombre Lobo
08. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
09. Polvo - In Prism
10. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

01 (1) Avishai Cohen - Aurora
02 (2) Lily Allen - It's Not Me It's You
03 (-) Nephew - DanmarkDenmark
04 (3) White Lies - To Lose My Life
05 (8) Fever Ray - Fever Ray
06 (-) Editors - In This Light and on This Evening
07 (-) Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
08 (4) Elvis Perkins - Elvis Perkins In Dearland
09 (5) Röyksopp - Junior
10 (-) Rodrigo y Gabriela - 11:11

Nu al 20 albums uit 2009 grondig beluisterd, natuurlijk hoop ik nog meer prachtalbums te horen.

1. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
2. Leonard Cohen - Live in London
3. Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up
4. M. Ward - Hold Time
5. U2 - No Line on the Horizon
6. Simple Minds - Graffiti Soul
7. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
8. Doves - Kingdom of Rust
9. The xx - xx
10. The Hickey Underworld - The Hickey Underworld

Een jaar met relatief weinig tegenvallers (alleen Neil Young haalt minder dan 3*) maar ook weinig uitschieters tot nu toe (het ligt bijna allemaal tussen 3,5* en 4*).

1.Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
2.Burnt By The Sun - Heart Of Darkness
3.The Antlers - Hospice
4.Fever Ray - Fever Ray
5.PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
6.The Field - Yesterday And Today
7.The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
8.Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
9.Tiga - Ciao! Tiga
10.The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
11.Dan Deacon - Bromst
12.Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon: The End Of Day
13.Lamb Of God - Wrath
14.jj - jj no.2
15.Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Lynx Pt.2
16.Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
17.Fakkelbrigade - Colucci Era
18.Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away
19.Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
20.The Juan MacLean - The Future Will Come
21.Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
22.Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It´s Blitz!
23.Boys Noize - Power
24.Rammstein - Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da
25.Kasabian - The West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
26.Mastodon - Crack The Skye
27.DOOM - Born Like This
28.Mos Def - The Ecstatic
29.YACHT - See Mystery Lights
30.Discovery - LP
31.Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
32.Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
33.Major Lazer - Guns Don´t Kill People...Lazers Do
34.Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
35.Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
36.Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II
37.Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
38.Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
39.Moderat - Moderat
40.U2 - No Line On The Horizon

Klaar om te enteren: Shackleton, Nile en Slayer

Nieuw lijstje, weinig overgebleven van het vorige lijstje:

01. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
02. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
03. Smith Westerns - Smith Westerns
04. The Hunches - Exit Dreams
05. The Strange Boys - The Strange Boys
06. Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
07. City Center - City Center
08. James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
09. Natural Snow Buildings - Shadow Kingdom
10. Vitalic - Flashmob

01 (....) Marillion - Less is More
02 (01) Taipuva Luotisuora - IV
03 (02) Øresund Space Collective - Good Planets Are Hard To Find
04 (03) ColorStar - ColorStar
05 (04) First Band From Outer Space - The Guitar Is Mightier Than the Gun
06 (05) Korai Öröm - 2009
07 (06) Kamchatka - Volume III
08 (07) Quantum Fantay - Kaleidoscope
09 (....) Soulive - Up Here
10 (09) Queensrÿche - American Soldier

Komen nog bij:

Gov't Mule - By a Thread
Pure Reason Revolution - Amor Vincit Omnia
Oceansize - Home & Minor
The Pineapple Thief - 3000 Days

Ik update nog maar eens:

1. (1) Emmure – Felony
2. (5) Kingdom – The Rage That Guides
3. (2) Despised Icon – Day of Mourning
4. (-) Your Demise – Ignorance Never Dies
5. (-) Thick As Blood – Embrace
6. (4) Earth Crisis – To the Death
7. (-) Ektomorf – What Doesn’t Kill Me…
8. (-) Crime Scene - Overcome
9. (6) Hoods – Pit Beast
10. (-) Kickback – No Surrender

toch even aangepast

1. Gazpacho-Tick tock 5**
2.Omar rodriguez lopez- old money 5*
3 maudlin of the well part the second 4,5*
4 peter hammil pure air 4,5*
5.Grizzly bear- Veckamest 4,5*
6.soulsavers-Broken 4,5*
7.riverside- Anno Domini High Definition 4,5*
8 transatlantic whirlwind 4,5*
9 devin townsend project Ki 4,5*
10 Mastodon crack the skye 4*

ik ben toch iets strenger gaan waarderen

1. (2) Antony and the Johnsons – The Crying Light
2. (1) Scott Matthew – There Is an Ocean That Divides……
3. (-) Dez Mona – Hilfe Kommt
4. (-) Brett Anderson – Slow Attack
5. (3) The Hidden Cameras – Origin:Orphan
6. (4) Patrick Wolf – The Bachelor
7. (5) Soulsavers – Broken
8. (6) Jay Brannan – In Living Cover
9.(7) Morrissey - Years of Refusal
10. (9) The xx – xx

11. (-) The Swell Season – Strict Joy
12. (-) Asaf Avidan & the Mojos – Poor Boy / Lucky Man
13. (-) Devendra Banhart – What Will We Be
14. (8) Fanfarlo - Reservoir
15. (11) Depeche Mode – Sounds of the Universe
16. (10) Sound of the Blue Heart – Wind of Change
17. (14) Pearl Jam – Backspacer
18. (19) Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
19. (-) Echo & the Bunnymen – The Fountain
20. (13) Balmorhea – All Is Wild, All Is Silent

01. The Smith Westerns - s/t
02. Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
03. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
04. The Hickey Underworld - s/t
05. A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
06. Dead Man's Bones - s/t
07. Heavy Trash - Midnight Soul Serenade
08. Future of the Left - Travels with Myself and Another
09. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
10. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t

11. Lee Fields and the Expressions - My World
12. White Denim - Fits
13. Lightning Dust - Infinite Light
14. Lovvers - OCD Go Go Go Girls
15. Crystal Antlers - Tentacles
16. Brimstone Howl - Big Deal (what's he done lately?)
17. The Dead Weather - Horehound
18. Girls - Album
19. The Strange Boys - And Girls Club
20. Thee Oh Sees - Help

1. Soulsavers - Broken
2. Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)
3. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
4. Archive - Controlling Crowds
5. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
6. Silversun Pickups - Swoon
7. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
8. Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up
9. Nico Vega - Nico Vega
10. Drive-By Truckers - The Fine Print

Update:

01. Q-Tip - Kamaal the Abstract 4,5*
02. P.O.S. - Never Better 4*
03. Del the Funky Homosapien & Tame One - Parallel Uni-Verse
04. Sene & Blu - A Day Late & A Dollar Short
05. Gazpacho - Tick Tock
06. Cage - Depart from Me
07. Porcupine Tree - The Incident
08. Qwel & Maker - So Be It
09. Archive - Controlling Crowds
10. Mirage and Concept - Inner Pains

01. Sam Baker - Cotton 4,5*
02. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light 4,5*
03. My Latest Novel - Deaths and Entrances 4,5*
04. Dez Mona - Hilfe Kommt 4,5*
05. Loney, Dear - Dear John 4,5*
06. De Staat - Wait for Evolution 4,5*
07. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast 4,5*
08. Fever Ray - Fever Ray 4*
09. Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor 4*
10. U2 - No Line on the Horizon 4*

11. Scott Matthew - There Is an Ocean That Divides... 4*
12. The Veils - Sun Gangs 4*
13. Soulsavers - Broken 4*
14. Engineers - Three Fact Fader 4*
15. Kyteman - The Hermit Sessions 4*
16. Soap&Skin - Lovetune for Vacuum 4*
17. The Field - Yesterday and Today 4*
18. The xx - Xx 4*
19. Eels - Hombre Lobo 4*
20. Lady & Bird - La Ballade of Lady & Bird 4*

(ik had nog niet eerder dit jaar een lijstje gemaakt. blijkt niet zo eenvoudig, want er zijn een aantal heel erg mooie platen uitgekomen. dit is een eerste poging.)

1.Brother Ali – Us
2.Diamond District - In The Ruff
3.Mos Def – The Estatic
4.Finale – A Pipe Dream A Promise
5.Torae & Marco Polo – Double Barrel
6.Fashawn - Boy Meets World
5.Braille & Symbolic One – CloudNineteen
6.Doom – Born Into This
7.Toki Wright – A Different Mirror
8.Skyzoo – The Salvation
9.Paten Locke - Super Ramen Rocketship
10.Soujourn - Sojournalism

Er komen nog wel wat albums uit die hier verandering in kunnen brengen

Update:

01 - 4.5*- Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
02 - 4.0*- Kashiwa Daisuke - 5 Dec.
03 - 4.0*- Iron & Wine - Around the Well
04 - 4.0*- Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
05 - 4.0*- SubtractiveLAD - Where the Land Meets the Sky
06 - 4.0*- Andrew Bird - Fitz and the Dizzyspells
07 - 4.0*- Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
08 - 3.5*- World's End Girlfriend - Air Doll
09 - 3.5*- Tor & Sufjan Stevens - Illinoize
10 - 3.5*- Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
11 - 3.5*- Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
12 - 3.5*- Modest Mouse - No One's First and You're Next
13 - 3.5*- Iron & Wine - Norfolk 06-20-05
14 - 3.0*- Phosphorescent - To Willie
15 - 3.0*- Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship
16 - 3.0*- Sufjan Stevens - The BQE
17 - 2.5*- Eels - Hombre Lobo
18 - 0.5*- Ronan Keating - Songs for My Mother

01. Obba Supa – To: AM – Free: AM
02. Dr. Who Dat? - Beyond 2morrow
03. Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms
04. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez – Old Money
05. Myka 9 – 1969
06. Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself
07. P.O.S. – Never Better
08. Themselves – CrownsDown
09. Zwart Licht – Bliksemschicht
10. The xx - xx

Ik vind het altijd moeilijk zo'n lijst samen te stellen, maar met deze lijst kan ik mij echt goed vinden...

1 Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
2 Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
3 Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist
4 Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
5 Edwarp Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below
6 Regina Spektor - Far
7 Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
8 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
9 C-Mon & Kypski - We Are Square
10 Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band - Bird Head Son

hmm, weer twee gegadigden:

Sylvan - Forces of Gravity
Gazpacho - Tick - Tock.

Wordt eens tijd dat ik het wat ga uitzoeken....

01. (__) Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue (2009)
02. (__) Reno Divorce - Tears Before Sunrise (2009)
03. (01) The Devil Makes Three - Do Wrong Right (2009)
04. (__) New Model Army - Today Is A Good Day (2009)
05. (__) Soulsavers - Broken (2009)
06. (04) Morrissey - Years of Refusal (2009)
07. (07) Left Alone - Left Alone (2009)
08. (02) Alexisonfire - Old Crows / Young Cardinals (2009)
09. (__) Tex Perkins - Best Of (2009)
10. (__) The Meteors - Hell Train Rollin'(2009)

01. Q-Tip - Kamaal the Abstract 4,5*
02. P.O.S. - Never Better
03. Del the Funky Homosapien & Tame One - Parallel Uni-Verse 4*
04. Sene & Blu - A Day Late & A Dollar Short
05. Gazpacho - Tick Tock
06. Cage - Depart from Me
07. Gift of Gab - Escape 2 Mars
08. Blockhead - The Music Scene
09. Mirage and Concept - Inner Pains
10. Qwel & Maker - So Be It

Nog maar één niet hiphop album in mijn top 10, ze staan allemaal net wat lager:

11. Archive - Controlling Crowds
12. Porcupine Tree - The Incident
13. Vic Chesnutt - At the Cut
16. Soap&Skin - Lovetune for Vacuum
19. Breakestra - Dusk Till Dawn
21. Tangerine Dream - Winter in Hiroshima
22. Rachel Grimes - Book of Leaves
32. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!
33. Elegi - Varde
34. Reptile71 - In Dust: 2000-2003

Allemaal 4*

1. Ludovico Einaudi - Night Book
2. Hildur Gudnadóttir - Without Sinking
3. Jónsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps
4. Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
5. Olafur Arnalds - Found songs
6. Vic Chesnutt - At the cut
7. Antony And The Johnsons - Crying Light
8. Evangelista - Prince Of Truth
9. Balmorhea - All is wild, all is violent
10. Lais Lenski - S/t

Update


1. The Crying Light- Antony & the Johnsons
2. Thin Air- Peter Hammill
3. Here's the tender coming -The Unthanks
4. Wooden Arms- Patrick Watson
5 .Cotton-Sam Baker
6. Imidiwan .Companions- Tinariwen
7..Sea of Tears- Eilen Jewell
8. Monsters of Folk- Monsters of Folk
9. Not Far Now- Richard Shindell
10. Dead Man's Bones- Dead Man's Bones e )

01 - Porcupine Tree / The Incident
02 - The Devin Townsend Project / Ki
03 - Between the Buried and Me / The Great Misdirect
04 - Mastodon / Crack the Skye
05 - Transatlantic / The Whirlwind
06 - Beardfish / Destined Solitaire
07 - Guilt Machine / On this Perfect Day
08 - Dream Theater / Black Clouds & Silver Linings
09 - The Flaming Lips / Embryonic
10 - Jónsi & Alex / Riceboy Sleeps

Mijn top 10 begint steeds vastere vormen aan te nemen, wat natuurlijk ook logisch is. Wel heb ik een nieuwe nummer 1, ik keek er eigenlijk al naar uit sinds ik kennis maakte met Felt 2, had dan ook hoge verwachtingen en deze zijn zelfs overtroffen. Ik geloof niet dat er dit jaar nog een album komt dat ik beter ga vinden, ik heb het over Felt 3, die ik voorlopig op 4,5* heb staan maar dat kan zo groeien naar de maximale score. Verder wat verschuivingen maar geen radicale wijzigingen:


01. Slug & Murs - Felt 3 4,5*
02. Q-Tip - Kamaal the Abstract
03. P.O.S. - Never Better
04. Del the Funky Homosapien & Tame One - Parallel Uni-Verse 4*
05. Gazpacho - Tick Tock
06. Blockhead - The Music Scene
07. Cage - Depart from Me
08. Sene & Blu - A Day Late & A Dollar Short
09. Gift of Gab - Escape 2 Mars
10. Mirage and Concept - Inner Pains

01 (=) The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
02 (=) Gazpacho - Tick Tock
03 (/\) Russian Circles - Geneva
04 (=) Soap&Skin - Lovetune for Vacuum
05 (--) The xx - xx
06 (--) Sophia - There Are No Goodbyes
07 (\/) Florence + The Machine - Lungs
08 (\/) Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
09 (--) Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
10 (--) Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin

Update
01 Decorate Decorate - Instructions
02 Gazpacho - Tick Tock
03 Editors - In This Light And On This Evening
04 Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy
05 Absynthe Minded - Absynthe Minded
06 Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
07 White Lies - To Lose My Life
08 Eels - Hombre Lobo
09 The Hickey Underworld - The Hickey Underworld
10 Sivert Höyem - Moon Landing
11 ArcticMonkeys - Humbug
12 Ghinzu - Mirror Mirror
13 Depeche Mode - Sounds Of The Universe
14 Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
15 The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love
16 Sonic Youth - The Eternal
17 Team William - Team William
18 The Antlers - Hospice
19 Silversun Pickups - Swoon
20 The Veils - Sun Gangs

1.Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
2.Burnt By The Sun – Heart Of Darkness
3.The Antlers – Hospice
4.The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
5.PJ Harvey & John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By
6.The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
7.The Field – Yesterday And Today
8.Fever Ray – Fever Ray
9.Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
10.Tiga – Ciao! Tiga
11.Slayer – World Painted Blood
12.Jj – jj no.2
13.Lamb Of God - Wrath
14.Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
15.Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
16.Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Lynx Pt.2
17.Kid Cudi – Man On The Moon: The End Of Day
18.Fakkelbrigade – Colucci Era
19.Dan Deacon - Bromst
20.Gui Boratto – Take My Breath Away
21.Sunn O))) – Monoliths And Dimensions
22.Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It´s Blitz
23.Boys Noize – Power
24.The Juan MacLean – The Future Will Come
25.Patrick Watson – Wooden Arms

1 oneida - rated o
2 jim o'rourke - the visitor
3 dinosaur jr. - farm
4 Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship
5 dan auerbach - keep it hid
6 The Dead Weather - Horehound
7 six organs of admittance - Luminous light
8 yo la tengo - popular songs
9 Sonic youth - the eternal
10 joe gideon - harum scarum

Het einde van het jaar komt dichtbij dus maar weer eens een lijstje maken, wat de laatste lijst wordt tot het einde van het jaar:

1. Thomas Köner - La Barca
2. Asher - Miniatures
3. Tu M' - Monochromes Vol. 1
4. The Puddle Parade - Origami
5. SND - Atavism
6. David Sylvian - Manafon
7. Mountains - Choral
8. Darwinsbitch - Ore
9. Natural Snow Buildings - Shadow Kingdom
10 Lawrence English - A Colour For Autumn


11. Starving Weirdos - B/P/M Series 1
12. EARLabs 3 - Helix
13. Elegi - Varde
14. Nicholas Szczepanik - The Chiasmus
15. Celer - Capri
16. Piotr Kurek - Lectures
17. Nackt Insecten - Quantum Odyssey
18. Robert Henke - Indigo_Transform
19. Xela - Heirs Of The Fire
20. Cam Deas - My Guitars Is Alive and It's Singing

Favoriete EP's en singles:

Tomas Phillips - Six Notes
Stephen Spera - 4 {H2O}
Taylor Deupree - Weather And Worn
Ryota Kanasaki - [phonetilosophy]
Richard Youngs - High Sun Energy / States of Time
Jana Winderen - Heated: Live in Japan

Favoriete reissues:
Xela - The Illuminated
Richard Skelton - Marking Time
Six Organs of Admittance - RTZ
The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition Of Phrases

Enkele van de albums die nog kans maken de lijst te halen:
N. - Trischen
The Beautiful Schizophonic - Erotikon
Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon
Phil Niblock - Touch Strings

maw. alles kan over 1 1/2 maand geheel anders zijn.

In de lijsten zijn niet de albums meegenomen die ik zelf dit jaar heb uitgegeven op mijn eigen labeltje. Uiteraard zijn die ook zeer tof, maar daar ben ik toch over bevooroordeeld.