All the albums I’ve bought and enjoyed as the year goes by (those in bold are the favourites of each year):
Some of my favourites from 2007:
- Low – Drums and Guns
- Arcade Fire -Neon Bible
- Of Montreal – Hissing faun, are you the destroyer?
- Battles – Mirrored
- Feist – The reminder
- Dan Deacon – Spider-Man of the Rings
- Kevin Drew – Spirit if…
- Rob Crow – Living Well
- Andrew Bird – Armchair apocrypha
- The Besnard Lakes – are the dark horse
- Bat for Lashes – Fur and gold
- Spoon – Ga ga ga ga ga
- Iron & Wine – The Shepard’s Dog
- Peter Bjorn and John – Writer’s Block
- Radiohead – In rainbows
- Holy Fuck – LP
- Stars of the Lid – And their refinement of the decline
My favorite song last year was a close tie between:
- Low – Murderer
- Los Campesinos! – You! Me! Dancing!
- Arcade Fire – No cars go
- Spoon – The ghost of you lingers
Albums from 2008:
- British Sea Power – Do you like rock music?
- Adele – 19
- Sons & Daughters – This gift
- Cat Power – Jukebox
- MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
- Laura Marling – Alas, I cannot swim
- Aidan John Moffat – I can hear your heart
- Los Campesinos! – Hold on now, youngster
- Malcolm Middleton – Sleight of Hand
- Vampire Weekend
- Foals – Antidotes
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Did, Lazarus, Dig!
- Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I-IV
- The Kills – Midnight Boom
- Jacaszek – Treny
- Teenagers – Reality Check
- Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
- Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
- Pete & The Pirates – Little Death
- Tapes ‘n Tapes – Walk it off
- Lykke Li – Youth Novel
- Crystal Castles
- NIN – The Slip
- Mogwai – Young Team 10th Anniversary reissue
- Joan as Policewoman – To survive
- Fleet Foxes – Sun Giant EP and Fleet Foxes
- Metronomy – Nights out
- Martha Wainwright – I know you’re married but I’ve got feelings too
- She & Him – Volume one
- Burial – Untrue
- Errors – It’s not something but it is like whatever
- Flight of the Conchords
- Neon Neon – Stainless style
- Santogold
- Yeasayer – All hour cymbals
- Brendan Canning – Something for all of us… (Broken Social Scene presents)
- Mogwai – The hawk is howling
- Fugiya & Miyagi – Lightbulbs
- Matthew Robert Cooper – Minatures
- Glasvegas – Glasvegas
- Biffy Clyro – Puzzle
- The Dark Knight OST
- Ben Folds – Way to normal
- The Streets – Everything is borrowed
- TV on the Radio – Dear science,
- Monkey – Journey to the west
- Emiliana Torrini – Me and Armini
- Grails – Doomsdayer’s holiday
- Los Campesenos! – We are beautiful, we are doomed
- AC/DC – Black Ice
- Of Montreal – Skeletal lamping
- Remember Remember
- Kings of Leon – Only by the night
- Jenny Lewis – Acid tongue
- The Secret Machines
- Lambchop – OH (ohio)
- Ladyhawke
Gigs (2008):
- Explosions in the Sky + Eluvium
- Gloria Cycles
- Holy Fuck
- Low
- Mogwai (Queen Elizabeth Hall)
- The Great Escape Festival (Ida Maria, School of Language, Vampire Weekend, Johnny Flynn, Jeremy Walmsley, Lightspeed Champion, Fugiya & Myagi, Black Mountain)
Albums of 2009:
- Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
- Antony and the Johnsons – The Crying Light
- Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
- A.C. Newman – Get Guilty
- Marianne Faithful – Easy Come, Easy Go
- M. Ward – Hold Time
- Dark Was The Night (Compilation)
- Lily Allen – It’s not me, it’s you
- Eluvium – Life through Bombardment (Boxset)
- Beirut – March of the Zapotec / Realpeople Holland
- Peter Bjorn & John – Living thing
- Dan Deacon – Bromst
- PJ Harvey & John Parish – A Woman a Man Walked By
- Bill Callahan – Sometimes I wish I were an eagle
- Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band – Outer South
- Graham Coxon – The spinning top
- Iron and Wine – Around the Well
- Jarvis Cocker – Further complications
- Mono – Hymn to the immortal wind
- Neko Case – Middle cyclone
- Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
- Doves – Kingdom of Rust
- Wooden Shjips – Dos
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
- Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
- Tortoise – Beacons of Ancestorship
- Regina Spektor – Far
- Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
- Blur – Live at Hyde Park
- Clint Mansell – Moon
- Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years
- The Watermarks – Thoughts like bombs
- The Duckworth Lewis Method
- Manic Street Preachers – Journal for Plague Lovers
- Dan Bull – Safe
- Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
- Malcolm Middleton – Waxing Gibbous
- Monsters of Folk
- My Latest Novel – Deaths and Entrances
- Pearl Jam – Backspacer
- Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
- Dizzee Rascal – Tongue in Cheek
