Singles and albums of the year – 2009

Back to the present at last, 10 years of charts posted up in the last 2 days, so now I can get working on my songs and albums of the decade!

A really strong line up this year, but I love the prog rock of Everything Everything, wrapped up in no pomp at all and for all the world just coming out like a regular bit of indie that we all know and love.



The Mighty Roars single is just such a great feel-good song too, and a nice video too.



After the suprising amount I played Franz Ferdinand during the first half of the year, it was edged from being the best album by some foul-mouthed young ladies from Norwich, the Brownies. Caught them live twice this year and while not groundbreaking, the music and energy is mightily refreshing.



Singles

1. Everything Everything – Photoshop Handsome
2. Mighty Roars – Elvis Lives
3. Senser – Resistance Now
4. Lovely Eggs – I Like Birds But I Like Other Animals Too
5. Brownies – Dance Romance
6. Fiona Bevan – Moths
7. Camera Obscura – French Navy
8. We Are The Physics – Goran Ivanisevic
9. Art Brut – Alcoholics Unanimous
10. Joy Formidable – The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade
11. Metric – Gold Guns Girls
12. Ash – Return Of White Rabbit
13. Tom Allalone and the 78s – Sign On You Lazy Diamond
14. Hafdis Huld – Kongulo
15. Rose Elinor Dougall – Start/Stop/Synchro
16. Lovely Eggs – Have You Ever Heard A Digital Accordian
17. Cerys Matthews – It’s What’s Left (That Makes It Right)
18. Baikonour – Oben Beg mk3 CBC theme
19. Cheek – Hung Up
20. Senser – Brightest Rays
21. Prodigy – Omen
22. Soft Toy Emergency – Critical
23. Kovak – I’ll Be Good To You
24. Hjaltalin – Traffic Music
25. Cerys Matthews – Arlington Way
26. We Were Promised Jetpacks – Quiet Little Voices
27. Future Of The Left – Arming Eritrea
28. Joy Formidable – Whirring
29. Skunk Anansie – Tear The Place Up
30. Friendly Fires – Skeleton Boy
31. Franz Ferdinand – Can’t Stop Feeling
32. Choppersauraus – Boy Recesson
33. Duckworth-Lewis Method – The Age Of Revolution
34. Good Shoes – The Way My Heart Beats
35. Super Furry Animals – Inaugural Trams
36. Killed By 9V Batteries – This City Is Lit When You’re On Top Of It
37. Radiohead – These Are My Twisted Words
38. Robocop Kraus – Sometimes I Wonder If You’d Been A Dog In A Previous Life
39. Department S – Wonderful Day
40. Death Of The Elephant – Trypticon
41. Silversun Pickups – Substitution
42. Surfquake – Surf And Destroy
43. Eliza – Hopeless Case
44. WeirdGear – Game
45. Hickey Underworld – Mystery Bruise
46. Everything Everything – My Keys, Your Boyfriend
47. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – My Boss Was In An Indie Band Once
48. Therapy – The Head That Tried To Strangle Itself
49. Ungdomskulen – Idunno
50. White Rose Movement – Cigarette Machine (club mix)
51. Monocle Rose – Alley Cat
52. Bleech – Is It True That Boys Don’t Cry
53. Pet Shop Boys – Love etc
54. Madness – Idiot Child
55. Pale – Stop It, I Might Like It
56. Miike Snow – Silvia
57. Maximo Park – Wraithlike
58. Pan I Am – Fire Dance
59. Delphic – Doubt
60. Muse – Uprising
61. Sicknurse – Sheepnesting
62. Le Corps Mince De Francoise – Something Golden
63. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise
64. Grave Architects – The Bike Song
65. Polly Scattergood – Please Don’t Touch
66. Rakes – 1989
67. Royksopp – Happy Up Here
68. Baddies – Holler For My Holiday
69. Maximo Park – Questing Not Coasting
70. Patrick Wolf – Hard Times
71. Helmholtz Resonators – Choc’ Full of Chix
72. Pure Reason Revolution – Les Malheurs
73. Simian Mobile Disco – Audacity Of Huge
74. Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
75. Blizzards – Trust Me I’m A Doctor
76. Trash Monroe – Love Dysmorphia
77. Kabeedies – Petits Filous
78. Silversun Pickups – There’s No Secrets This Year
79. Boxer Rebellion – Evacuate
80. Charlotte Hatherley – White
81. Animal Kingdom – Tin Man
82. Simple Minds – Rockets
83. A Camp – Stronger Than Jesus
84. Camera Obscura – The Sweetest Thing
85. Japanese Voyeurs – Dumb
86. Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard – Roll Bus Roll
87. Florence And The Machine – Rabbit Heart [Raise It Up]
88. A Place To Bury Strangers – In Your Heart
89. Esser – Work It Out
90. Andy J Gallagher – Faster
91. Angry Vs The Bear – I Am Electric
92. Charlotte Hatherley – Alexander
93. Violet Violet – C-C-C-Cat
94. Editors – Papillon
95. I, Ludicrous – We’re The Support Band
96. Client – Can You Feel
97. Asteroids Galaxy Tour – The Golden Age
98. Le Monnier – Save Yourself
99. Empire Of The Sun – We Are The People
100. Milk Kan – Don’t Panic

Albums

1. Brownies – Ourknife Yourback
2. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight
3. Senser – How To Do Battle
4. Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning
5. Cerys Matthews – Don’t Look Down
6. Therapy? – Crooked Timber
7. Art Brut – Art Brut vs Satan
8. Lovely Eggs – If You Were Fruit
9. Pure Reason Revolution – Amor Vincit Omnia
10. Duckworth-Lewis Method – The Duckworth-Lewis Method
11. Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
12. Baddies – Do The Job
13. Madness – The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
14. Metric – Fantasies
15. Future Of The Left – Travels With Myself And Another
16. Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years
17. Boxer Rebellion – Union
18. Frank Turner – Poetry Of The Deed
19. Tom Allalone and the 78s – Major Sins pt 1
20. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – Regardez, Ecoutez et Repetez
21. Maximo Park – Quicken The Heart
22. Baikonour – Your Ear Knows Future
23. Hjaltalin – Sleepdrunk Sessions
24. Miike Snow – Miike Snow
25. Pale – Proper Order
26. Franz Ferdinand – Blood
27. 9bach – 9Bach
28. British Sea Power – Man Of Aran
29. We Were Promised Jetpacks – These Four Walls
30. Trash Monroe – Shooting From The Lips And Other Crimes Of Passion
31. Hickey Underworld – The Hickey Underworld
32. Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
33. Charlotte Hatherly – New Worlds
34. Violet Violet – The City Is Full Of Beasts
35. Ungdomskulen – Bisexual
36. Trashcan Sinatras – In The Music
37. A Camp – Colonia
38. Client – Command
39. Florence and the Machine – Lungs
40. Editors – In This Light And On This Even
41. Patrick Wolf – The Bachelor
42. Polly Scattergood – Polly Scattergood
43. Sean Taylor – Calcutta Grove
44. Human Foals – Antidotes
45. Graham Coxon – The Spinning Top
46. Kasabian – The West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
47. White Lies – To Lose My Life
48. Mika – The Boy Who Knew Too Much
49. Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Fruit