Cokemachineglow's Top 50 Albums 2009

Cokemachineglow's Top 50 Albums 2009

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49.

Way Out West - We Love Machine
November 17, 2009
Critic Score
75
3 reviews

48.

October 6, 2009
Critic Score
77
22 reviews

Regardless of his collaborators or how he chooses to approach his songs, The Life of the World to Come is further proof of Darnielle's ability, evident since long before he traded a boombox for a studio, to imbue his imagery, his sentiments, and his many characters with astounding weight and power.

47.

LSD March - Under Milk Wood
January 27, 2009
Critic Score
78
1 review

46.

February 17, 2009
Critic Score
77
12 reviews

45.

September 8, 2009
Critic Score
77
23 reviews

44.

May 19, 2009
Critic Score
80
26 reviews

Nobody who has ever had some semblance of an interest in this band should ignore Journal For Plague Lovers, which is simply far more awesome than anyone had a right to expect.

43.

Jermiside - Die Jerm Die
October 20, 2009

42.

Black Mold - Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz
August 11, 2009
Critic Score
62
6 reviews

41.

Nurses - Apple's Acre
August 4, 2009
Critic Score
74
10 reviews

40.

Lokai - Transition
August 18, 2009
Critic Score
79
3 reviews

37.

March 16, 2009
Critic Score
80
24 reviews
At the risk of sounding redundant, this being Super Furry Animals, there just isn’t that much to dislike.

36.

January 20, 2009
Critic Score
81
33 reviews

The Crying Light may prove to be too precarious to hold up on its own in the future, but for now Antony & the Johnsons have provided a perfect gateway to their music.

35.

February 24, 2009
Critic Score
74
13 reviews

30.

April 14, 2009
Critic Score
80
25 reviews

If Woke On A Whaleheart (2007) was the cuckoo clock, Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle‘s Callahan’s triumphant Renaissance.

28.

Humcrush - Rest at Worlds End
January 12, 2009
Critic Score
78
3 reviews

27.

October 31, 2009
Critic Score
72
5 reviews

24.

October 20, 2009
Critic Score
76
9 reviews

23.

October 13, 2009
Critic Score
76
33 reviews

Embryonic works so staggeringly well because it's so unafraid to place itself in the lineage of unapologetically over-the-top rock albums.

22.

May 26, 2009
Critic Score
85
17 reviews

Monoliths & Dimensions feels like a testament from a deep pit of despair with nowhere to look but up. They might never get out but the hope is in the fact that everyone involved is in the exact same spot.

21.

May 5, 2009
Critic Score
80
30 reviews

What makes Actor an honest-to-God good record—not just a dreamy one—is the way that Clark can use such a simple formula to get such an engaging range of textures.

20.

October 13, 2009
Critic Score
87
9 reviews

Blue Record is, in sound and spirit, satisfying metal painted with broad strokes and big gestures.

19.

April 14, 2009
Critic Score
80
9 reviews

So the truth is as this record is: that inspiration is not known but felt, that its speech is breath and its words actions, that it lasts only a moment but that moment is reincarnated throughout time. I wanna go pluck the shit out of a begena.

18.

September 8, 2009
Critic Score
80
28 reviews
Despite the 26 minutes wasted by these final tracks, as damning as that sounds, this is still a very good Yo La Tengo record.

16.

August 17, 2009
Critic Score
84
28 reviews

The xx’s penchant for concision lends this material some seriously refreshing clarity, but it’d be a mistake to confuse their relative minimalism for some kind of aesthetic singularity.

15.

September 8, 2009
Critic Score
78
13 reviews

The real nuggets of the album ... lie in the moments when the inherent melancholy behind Hart’s doe-eyed mysticism comes out.

14.

February 3, 2009
Critic Score
75
24 reviews
The album’s accompanying trappings do little to dull its impressiveness or the band’s command of its lineage.

13.

June 9, 2009
Critic Score
86
38 reviews

As relatively good as most of Bitte Orca is, ['Stillness Is The Move'] alone gives us reason enough to be optimistic: should Longstreth pursue his newfound fascination with mainstream music further, it's proof that the Dirty Projectors are capable of evolving into a far better pop band than their experimental selves ever let on.

12.

March 9, 2009
Critic Score
79
18 reviews

Micachu’s album has all the markers of quirky chic—an unusual voice, a fairly well-known producer, and a distinctive approach centered around pastiche

11.

January 27, 2009
Critic Score
76
4 reviews

10.

June 23, 2009
Critic Score
78
22 reviews

Dragonslayer is a shockingly good record, but it’s no surprise that things ended up this way.

8.

May 26, 2009
Critic Score
86
38 reviews

It’s a sophisticated work, delicately and meticulously crafted, and its effete pleasantness lends itself as well to Late Night performances as New Yorker coverage.

7.

Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
March 10, 2009
Critic Score
75
10 reviews

Nowhere is this idea of acceptance clearer than on An Imaginary Country. In a sense the album evokes nothing so much as Hecker himself, diligently and intuitively molding his sounds through synthesizer, guitar and laptop, and as a result may be the most symbiotic album of the year.

6.

Burial + Four Tet - Moth / Wolf Cub
May 1, 2009
Critic Score
70
2 reviews

4.

January 6, 2009
Critic Score
92
37 reviews

If Merriweather Post Pavilion represents its progenitors’ conscious choice to replicate the live experience—or at least craft something monumental and loud enough to be worthy of an outdoor festival—on record, then this is an album which, like any good concert, must be felt.

3.

March 24, 2009
Critic Score
73
18 reviews
It’s a tight record, unencumbered by hooks or skits, beats bursting apart after a minute of flow and reassembling in a bioelectric flash brand new, flow unhitched, anticipating the beats’ rambunctiousness.

2.

May 26, 2009
Critic Score
81
30 reviews

It’s an approximation of what [perfection] might mean, which is: precise, lean, deliberate. There’s not a wasted moment here, and not one moment overstays it’s welcome, which from a bunch of aristocrats (I get) is pretty frickin’ rich.

1.

September 8, 2009
Critic Score
86
21 reviews

Raekwon has not made a valid sequel to that classic—but he has quite validly added a couple hundred new bars to that performance.

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