Various Musical Lists:

New Music (14)

  • Animal Collective – “Merriweather Post Pavilion”
  • M. Ward – “Hold Time”
  • Phosphorescent – “To Willie”
  • Bon Iver – “Blood Bank”
  • Loney Dear – “Dear John”
  • Asobi Seksu – “Hush”
  • Morrissey – “Years of Refusal”
  • Adam Franklin – “Spent Bullets”
  • The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – “S/T”
  • Crystal Antlers – “Tentacles”
  • The Thermals – “Now We Can See”
  • Camera Obscura – “My Maudlin Career”
  • Sonic Youth – “The Eternal”
  • Wildbirds & Peacedrums – “The Snake”

Reissues (2)

  • Zero Boys – “Vicious Circle”
  • Swervedriver – “Raise” / “Mezcal Head”

Non-2009 Listening (13)

  • Wilco – “A Ghost Is Born”
  • Curtis Mayfield – “Superfly”
  • Amadou & Mariam – “Welcome to Mali”
  • Portishead – “Third”
  • Hercules and Love Affair – “Hercules and Love Affair”
  • The Donkeys – “Living On The Other Side”
  • Thousand and Bramier – “Go Typhoon!”
  • King Crimson – “Starless and Bible Black”
  • Pia Fraus - “After Summer”
  • Jóhann Jóhannsson – “Fordlandia”
  • Comsat Angels – “Sleep No More” / “Waiting For A Miracle” / “Fiction”

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Films I’ve Enjoyed In 2009 (not necessarily new ones…):

  • Summer with Monika