So we're... blah blah blah... of the way through 2009; what records are worth listening to so far?

The thread is upsetting me with no mentions of the wonderful "(A)spera" by Mirah. So, problem rectified.

these are my favorite albums of the year so far:

Necro Deathmort - This Beat Is Necrotronic

Subarachnoid Space - Eight Bells

Rice Corpse - Mrs. Rice Corpse

William Fowler Collins - Perdition Hill Radio

Violet - Violet Ray Gas And The Playback Singers

Gnaw Their Tongues - All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity

Sperm Whales/Color Rabbit - Split CD

Starving Weirdos - Into An Energy

Ata Ebtekar & The Iranian Orchestra For New Music - Ornamentalism

Overmars - Born Again (American release/reissue)

Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Bar - Asylum Lunaticum

Frank Vigroux & Matthew Bourne - Call Me Madame (Good News From Wonderland)

Vagusnerve - Lo Pan

Kreng - L'Autopsie Phenomenale De Dieu

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - UTP_

An Anthology Of Chinese Experimental Music 1992-2008

Nurse With Wound - The Surveillance Lounge

Gog - Mist From The Random More

Tim Olive - The Specialist

Whoah! A new Subarachnoid Space? That one totally flew by my radar!

I just tried to order that Mama Bar CD and FE was out, oh well.

latest wye oak album is just gorgeous, way better than their first which was pretty decent too

it's not as shoegaze as some seem to be describing it but it's more gaze than, say, beach house or speck mountain

other 2009 albums i am loving the heck out of right now:

desolation wilderness
my sad captains
fanfarlo (is there any good reason ilm is ignoring this? tip: it doesn't actually sound like arcade fire, as some complete idiots seem to think)
paper moon (omg girly power pop does not get better than this)

oh and i nearly forgot, the dolly rocker movement's "purple journey..." album is total psych pop loveliness and doesn't sound australian at all

albums:
Ada - Adaptations
Desire - Desire (untitled CDR on Italians Do It Better)
The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come

singles:
DJ Kaos - "Love the Night Away (Tiedye mix)"
Lindstrom and Solale - "Baby I Can't Stop (Aeroplane mix)"
Shit Robot - "Simple Things (Work It Out) (Serge Santiago mix)"
Altair Nouveau - "Space Fortress"

my top whatever so far fwiw in no order

The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Communion
DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout
Spinal Tap - Back From the Dead
Dev.D soundtrack
The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
Company of Thieves - Ordinary Riches
Otis Taylor - Pentatonic Wars and Other Love Songs
Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady Vol. 1
Meg & Dia - Here, Here, and Here
Fru Fru - Az Prileti Tucnak
Invisible System - Punt: Made in Ethiopia
Otep - Smash the Control Machine
Slivovitz - Hubris
KEEK - Ritter
Radio Moscow - Brain Cycles
R.Kelly - DJ Drama & DJ Skee mixtape
Trey Songz - Anticipation mixtape
Polly Scattergood - Polly Scattergood
P.O.S. - Never Better
Oneida - Rated O
Various Artists - Revolution Rising
Cheap Trick - The Latest
Allen Toussaint - The Bright Mississippi
Gomez - A New Tide
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Michael Olatuja - Speak
Paulina Rubio - Gran City Pop

some others too

Amazed that no one has mentioned this yet:
Jeniferever - Spring Tides
The first two tracks are amazing, the rest of the album very good.

Two new ones in my top ten, V.V. Brown - Travelling Like the Light and Pill - 4180 The Prescription mixtape.

yeah that pill mixtape is just amazing, can't wait for whatever comes next from him

i would have added those two too but my list was long and life is short

pill's dropping a new mixtape soon

it's called 4175: the refill i think (i might have the number wrong)

yeah i think ive heard of that, he may have even referred to it at the end of 4180

Not a full list, but this new Tinariwen disc is very good.

Wussy - Wussy - almost perfect joy. for everyone who loves great catchy melodies and hooks.their best record so far.

i will also add Part Chimp if the fact that they don't really know how to write songs, will not interrupt the joy of listening to their sound.but i doubt it.

Tinariwen

really liking the White Denim album...sounds like vintage-era SST bands (Minutemen, Meat Puppets) gettin' down at Studio One...

also the new Jim O'Rourke...

http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/281/115/106/11510695/600x600.jpg

2009 songs to hear before you write anything off, sequenced as mixtape:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-jl1L6YRCI

1. Heartless Bastards, The Mountain (Fat Possum Records), 2009: "Be So Happy" (album version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HevhOgvxQH4

2. Brother Ali, Us (Rhymesayers), 2009*: "Breakin' Dawn"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT-hYXqTN38

3. Mos Def, The Ecstatic (Downtown), 2009: "Auditorium"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX3CdNl-7GE

4. K'NAAN, Troubadour (A&M/Octone), 2009*: "Fifteen Minutes Away"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdr_fInv3PQ

5. Bruce Springsteen, Working on a Dream (Columbia), 2009: "This Life"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwft9wG8hb4

6. P.O.S., Never Better (Rhymesayers), 2009*: "The Basics (Alright)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLRt3BdEBGI

7. Yo La Tengo, Popular Songs (Matador), 2009: "By Two's"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uIBqwd0Fp8

8. Eyedea & Abilities, By the Throat (Rhymesayers), 2009*: "This Story"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ7cGBAdOWk

9. U2, No Line on the Horizon (Island/Universal), 2009: "The Cedars of Lebanon"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtUWyildbik

10. Mr. Lif, I Heard It Today (Bloodbog Tactical Enterprises), 2009: "What About Us?"

11. Dynas, The Apartment (BBE), 2009*: "The Apartment 2" (can't find on youtube):
http://www.zero-inch.com/artist/Dynas/track/The_Apartment_2/109525

12. Busdriver, Jhelli Beam (Anti-), 2009: "Me-Time (With the Pulmonary Palimpsest)"

13. Lady Sovereign, Jigsaw (Midget Records), 2009* (friends here): "Let's Be Mates"

14. Two Fingers, Two Fingers (Paper Bag Records), 2009: "That Girl" (I prefer original mix, but can't find it on Youtube)

15. Various artists, Aaron LaCrate & Debonair Samir Present, B-More Club Crack (Koch), 2009: Verb f. Eliza Doolittle, "Rockin with the Best"

16. Doom, Born Like This (Lex Records), 2009: "Batty Boyz"

17. Lily Allen, It's Not Me, It's You (EMI), 2009: "The Fear":

18. Major Lazer, Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do (Downtown), 2009: "When You Hear the Bassline"

19. Mastodon, Crack the Skye (Reprise Records), 2009: "Oblivion" (turn this up)

20. The Clean, Mister Pop (Merge), 2009: "In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul"

Whups...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a0Y-CRx4nE

12. Busdriver, Jhelli Beam (Anti-), 2009: "Me-Time (With the Pulmonary Palimpsest)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iED-fN9Hm4w

13. Lady Sovereign, Jigsaw (Midget Records), 2009* (friends here): "Let's Be Mates"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBxTtw2vYgk

14. Two Fingers, Two Fingers (Paper Bag Records), 2009: "That Girl" (I prefer original mix, but can't find it on Youtube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWAYMcec1S0

15. Various artists, Aaron LaCrate & Debonair Samir Present, B-More Club Crack (Koch), 2009: Verb f. Eliza Doolittle, "Rockin with the Best"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_pp6PysRNM

16. Doom, Born Like This (Lex Records), 2009: "Batty Boyz"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-wGMlSuX_c

17. Lily Allen, It's Not Me, It's You (EMI), 2009: "The Fear":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lU2NAiWe8A

18. Major Lazer, Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do (Downtown), 2009: "When You Hear the Bassline"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kcErNWtw1o

19. Mastodon, Crack the Skye (Reprise Records), 2009: "Oblivion" (turn this up)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbJKs-_enXQ

20. The Clean, Mister Pop (Merge), 2009: "In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul"

* = any vague connection to Minneapolis/St. Paul

el goodo coyote. sounds like a long lost move record

On second thought, subtract Major Lazer, add Rancid's "East Bay Night" at the beginning of that tape, and shuffle a couple other songs--nobody cares, I realize, I just can't let bad sequencing stand.

man, that Mastodon vid is outta this world!

2009 has been a pretty darn good year.. nothing has ~BLOWN MY MIND~ as it were but I think there have been more good-to-great albums this year than ever before imo

i feel the same way, but imo there have been at least a couple mindblowers (love vs money, bitte orca).

Bannakumbi's Un Nuevo Dia is amazingly great, one of the only new salsa albums I've heard this decade worth shouting about. I'm going to try to put some of this into words after a few listens, but I have no doubt that is something exceptional.

Also:

Truco & Zaperoko - En Plena Rumba
Ata Ebtekar and the Iranian Orchestra for New Music Performing Works of Alireza Mashayekhia
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb - Upto Here|From Here

and though I haven't heard all of this yet, I can say so far, so good:

Acoustic Guitar Trio - Vignes

(That's Rod Poole, Jim McAuley, and Nels Cline.)

Will stan for the new Shakira album. (Anyone who o_O's pleasantly at the new Mariah should enjoy.)

nothing has ~BLOWN MY MIND

Correct.. I have yet to hear a 2009 release where I love almost every song. Lots of great singles though.

Porcupine Tree - The incident was pretty good.

What quintessentially me albums am I missing dudes - apart from the Marcus Nasty mix which I haven't heard yet:

Electrik Red - How To Be A Lady Volume 1
The-Dream - Love vs Money
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Fool's Gold - Fool's Gold
Silkie - City Limits Vol. 1
Dan Deacon - Bromst
Mungolian Jet Set - We Gave It All Away, Now We Are Taking It Back
Lil' Boosie - SuperBad
Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux
Lindstrom & Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool
Meanderthals - Desire Lines
DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout
Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay
Amadou & Mariam - Welcome To Mali
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
V/A - The Sound of UK Funky
Jeremih - Jeremih
Gucci Mane - Movie 3D: The Burrprint

My own top however-many:

DJ Quik & Kurupt - Blaqkout
Death - For the Whole World to See
The-Dream - Love vs. Money
Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady, Vol. 1
A-Trak - Fabriclive.45
The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come
Meshell Ndegeocello - Devil's Halo
Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information 3
DJ Paul - Scale-a-Ton
Geeneus - Volumes: One
The XX
Maxwell - Blacksummers'night
Nicolay - City Lights 2: Shibuya
The Sound of UK Funky
UGK - 4 Life
Pill - 4180: The Prescription
Donae'o - Party Hard
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II
Wiley - Race Against Time
DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
Charlotte Hatherley - New Worlds
Crazy Cousinz - This Is UK Funky House
Deradoorian - Mind Raft EP
Ghostface Killah - Wizard of Poetry
Beanie Sigel - The Broad Street Bully
Muhsinah - Triangle
Marco Polo & Torae - Double Barrel
Heavy - First Sessions
Art Brut - Art Brut vs. Satan
Blaq Poet - The Blaqprint
Booker T. Jones - Potato Hole
The Phenomenal Handclap Band
Dyme Def - Panic EP
Ryan Leslie
Freddie Gibbs - Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik
Rick Ross - Deeper Than Rap
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society - Infernal Machines
Gorilla Zoe - Don't Feed da Animals

I guess I'll slide these two somewhere to make 40:

Nicki Minaj - Beam Me Up Scotty
JHawk - Jerkin' With JHawk, Vol. 1

20

the-dream - love vs money
electrik red - how to be a lady vol. 1
dam-funk - toeachizown
phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix
gucci mane - movie 3d: burrprint
yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz!
green day - 21st century breakdown
kurt vile - childless prodigy
the juan maclean - the future will come
lil boosie - superbad
pill - 4180: the prescription
mungolian jetset - we gave it all away... now we're taking it back
freddie gibbs - midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik
marcus nasty - rinse: 10
girls - album
gucci mane - the movie 2: the sequel
dirty projectors - bitte orca
raekwon - only built 4 cuban link... pt II
the xx - the xx
jay reatard - watch me fall

well, does the re-release of the taylor swift album count since it has 6 new songs?

tim, you need to hear the black meteoric star and redshape albums. have you heard any dâm-funk yet? also, you can't count lindstrøm & christabelle as 2009!

my top whatever in a vague order, sans v/a mixes -

electrik red - how to be a lady vol. 1
taylor swift - fearless
dj quik & kurupt - blaqkout
the-dream - love vs money
mariah carey - memoirs of an imperfect angel
fever ray - fever ray
gucci mane - the burrprint
lil' wayne - no ceilings
yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz
redshape - the dance paradox
maxwell - blacksummersnight
the xx - xx
meanderthals - desire lines
ciara - fantasy ride
demi lovato - here we go again
ugk - ugk 4 life
omar-s - fabric 45
nicki minaj - beam me up scotty
black meteoric star - black meteoric star
shackleton - three eps
the juan maclean - the future will come
jamie foxx - intuition
toddla t - skanky skanky
karizma - a mind of its own v2.0
amerie - in love and war
eleni mandell - artificial fire
gorilla zoe - don't feed da animals
mavado - mr brooks...a better tomorrow
pill - 4180: the prescription
cortney tidwell - boys

still need to give the meshell ndegéocello and miranda lambert albums a proper listen too...

Beanie Sigel - The Broad Street Bully

Still an unrepentant scumbag, it sounds like.

agh i forgot raekwon...and marco polo & torae...and somehow deleted dâm-funk. this is so hard every year.

xp

also i have 'this is uk funky house' but as two hour long mixes & i'm too intimidated to listen to them :-/

(If it weren't for witness intimidation, Sigel would probably still be behind bars.)

He intimidated me into listing his album tbh.

Beanie Sigel - The Broad Street Bully

Still an unrepentant scumbag, it sounds like.

― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, November 8, 2009 5:01 AM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wtf?

hey tim check out the Maxwell album for serious

Sarges, the Crazy Cousinz mixes are def worth your time.

Beanie Sigel - The Broad Street Bully

Still an unrepentant scumbag, it sounds like.

― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, November 8, 2009 5:01 AM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wtf?

Rudipherous is from Philly and is for some reason connecting Philly resident Beanie's real life stints that have led to jailtime with his album title. But yea, the complaint doesn't make sense. I like the title. Are the Philadelphia Flyers still known as the Broad Street Bullies?

tim, you need to hear the black meteoric star and redshape albums.

Seconded Tim, this is fabulous and well worth a listen. One of my most played of this year.