Happy New Year everybody!
As is customary at these times, I have put together a list of my favourite albums of the year and here they are with links to my original reviews.
A Dancing Beggar – What We Left Behind
Depeche Mode – Sounds Of The Universe
Editors – In This Light And On This Evening
Engineers – Three Fact Fader
Epic45 – In All The Empty Houses
Hannu – Hintergarten
Hatcham Social – You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil
Horrors, The – Primary Colours
Hotels – Where Hearts Go Broke
Junior Boys – Begone Dull Care
Lee & Willbee – North Carolina
Hawley, Richard – Truelove’s Gutter
Hours, The – See The Light
Mukaizake – Unknown Knowns
Mummers, The – Tale To Tell
My Majestic Star – I Haven’t Got It In Me
Nheap – Skymotion
Northerner – The Ridings
Nosound – A Sense Of Loss
Painted Romans – Evil Wigs And Bedroom Moments
Prefab Sprout – Let’s Change The World With Music
Seeland – Tomorrow Today
U2 – No Line On The Horizon
Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
Feel free to add your own comments and best-ofs. I’m sure my choices will delight some and frustrate others, whilst the vast majority of the world remains largely indifferent.
Here’s to another decade of great music. I wonder if I’ll still be reviewing music in 2020, at the grand old age of 45!
Jon
Amended list from that which appeared on my blog… I’d forgotten about Seeland’s LP – shame on me!
Portico Quartet – Isla
Jon Hassell – Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street
The xx – The xx
Tortoise – Beacons of Ancestorship
Kreidler – Mosaik 2014
Seeland – Tomorrow Today
Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs
Fever Ray – Fever Ray
Bibio – Ambivalnce Avenue
We Fell to Earth – We Fell to Earth
Leyland Kirby – Sadly, the Future Is No Longer What It Was
Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
Glen Johnson – Details Not Recorded
Piano Magic – Ovations
Epic45 – In All The Empty Houses
Here’s mine, and the first 10 have some small entries on my blog also, in portuguese of course.
my top personal choices:
Port-Royal – Dying In Time
Black Swan Lane – The Sun and the Moon Sessions
For Against – Never Been
Odawas – The Blue Depths
We Fell To Earth – We Fell To Earth
The Mary Onettes – Islands
This Vision – This Vision
Jeniferever – Spring Tides
Danish Daycare – A Story Of Hurt
Red Painted Red – Colours Boxset
25 honorable mentions, in alphabetical order:
Art Noir – Silent Green
Asobi Seksu – Hush
Blindfold – Faking Dreams
Cinnamon Chasers – A Million Miles From Home
City Rain – This I Will Remember
Fever Ray – Fever Ray
Filthy Dukes – Nonsense In The Dark
French Teen Idol – El Siete Es La Luz
Great Lake Swimmers – Lost Channels
Hearts of Black Science – The Star In The Lake
Her Vanished Grace – Blue
IAMX – Kingdom of Welcome Addiction
Jonathan Johansson – En Hand i Himlen
Light in Your Life – Light in Your Life
Loney, Dear – Dear John
Moderat – Moderat
Mono – Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Piano Magic – Ovations
PNDC & housework – Secondhand Language
Soap&Skin – Lovetune For Vacuum
Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself
The Isolation – The Isolation
The Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning
The Twilight Sad – Forget The Night Ahead
The XX – XX
original link, here: http://projecto-cellophane.blogspot.com/2009/12/2009-o-balanco-possivel.html