What A good year for music. In fact I caught up with many releases I had let fall away through out the decade. A perfect example would be Of Montral " Hissing Fauna Are You The Destroyer?" Which proves Kevin Barnes is a genius. It's like taking early David Bowie, Ray Davies, Neu and Kraftwerk to the moon and back again. THe Liars " Drums Not Dead" a record of great ideas and great "songs". Like an updated and contemporary SY " Bad Moon Rising". Gets into your head and flows out into your backbone and the rest of your nervous system. Prince Far I " Chapter 3" re release of his early 80's lp of the same name. The Slits, David Toop and Adrian Sherwood are all in the mix. Like all good dub records this one turns the room upside down and everything else is weightless.
2009 Best
10. WOEBOT / Woebot ( self released).
09. DOOM / Born Like This
08. Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age
07. Antony and the Johnsons / Crying Light
06. 5 Years - Hyper Dub Compilation.
05 Warp 20 ( unheard)
04 Sight Below
03 Animal Collective / Merriweather Post Pavilion
02 Grizzly Bear / Veckatimest
01 Decemberists / Hazards Of Love
Reissues
01. The Beatles / Mono Box Set Remastered
02. Warp 20 ( chosen)
03. Every Mouth Must Be Fed
04. Abner Jay/ The Story Of Abner Jay
05. Tomorrow Come Someday OST
Singles and individual songs
Radiohead / These Are My Twisted Words
Thom Yorke/ Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses
Atlas Sound / Walkabout
Animal Collective/ " Brother Sport/ Bleed"
Burial and Four Tet " Wolf Cub/ Moth"
Woebot / Central One EP
Grizzly Bear / "Two Weeks"
