The Line of Best Fit's Albums of 2009

The Line of Best Fit's Albums of 2009

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50.

September 22, 2009
Critic Score
74
17 reviews

47.

October 20, 2009
Critic Score
70
23 reviews

45.

Slow Club - Yeah So
July 14, 2009
Critic Score
75
10 reviews

40.

March 9, 2009
Critic Score
79
18 reviews

38.

March 23, 2009
Critic Score
80
7 reviews

37.

July 6, 2009
Critic Score
79
33 reviews
It’s a cliche to say, but this album's a grower.

36.

David Sylvian - Manafon
September 14, 2009
Critic Score
70
10 reviews

35.

April 14, 2009
Critic Score
80
25 reviews
The days of him being the semi-AOR crooner by appointment to the hipster set may have already passed.

33.

March 31, 2009
Critic Score
80
35 reviews

It’s Blitz is certainly a bold new disco twist on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs own particular brand of angular art house rock.

32.

May 5, 2009
Critic Score
80
30 reviews
It really wouldn’t be hard to wax lyrical for a dissertation’s length about the sheer brilliance of this album. There’s not a dull note or word out of place.

31.

May 19, 2009
Critic Score
80
26 reviews

Consistently terrific, Journal for Plague Lovers is as good a demonstration of those ideas as you could hope to discover.

30.

Loney Dear - Dear John
January 27, 2009
Critic Score
70
18 reviews

28.

April 21, 2009
Critic Score
76
30 reviews

Such praise for her evocations of insecurity won't help her self esteem much, granted, but for her band it seems to have spurred them on to even greater heights.

26.

Russian Circles - Geneva
October 20, 2009
Critic Score
77
7 reviews

25.

June 22, 2009
Critic Score
81
22 reviews

The main thing our attention is stuck to is Falco himself - there's something about his delivery, combined with the intriguing lyrics ("but does it fuck like a maaaan?") that's completely riveting. Even then, those aspects are only the jewel in the crown of a very, very accomplished rock album.

24.

We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
June 15, 2009
Critic Score
72
16 reviews

The fact that WWPJ go over the top sometimes, that they seem rough around the edges and naive and do silly things like putting a two-and-a-half minute instrumental inbetween the album’s best two songs simply makes them all the more loveable because if this album is about anything it’s about the folly of youth and the ambition that characterises it.

20.

May 5, 2009
Critic Score
79
28 reviews

Primary Colours is the most satisfying surprise that 2009 is likely to deliver.

19.

September 22, 2009
Critic Score
80
25 reviews

18.

October 13, 2009
Critic Score
75
8 reviews

17.

October 20, 2009
Critic Score
76
9 reviews

16.

April 7, 2009
Critic Score
79
34 reviews
Arguably one of Britains leading talents at a time when most (that’s most not all) of the interesting and alternative music is being made across the Atlantic, we really should cherish her.

14.

Volcano Choir - Unmap
September 22, 2009
Critic Score
71
14 reviews

13.

March 3, 2009
Critic Score
82
27 reviews

12.

Fontän - Winterhwila
August 24, 2009
Critic Score
95
1 review

10.

September 8, 2009
Critic Score
81
29 reviews

Two Dancers has a blend of invention and pop sensibility that seems to have been largely lacking on this side of the Atlantic in recent years.

9.

April 28, 2009
Critic Score
80
24 reviews
Obviously young, occasionally dumb and certainly full of fun, it is a joyous snapshot of the aspirations, fears and concerns of a certain time of life that will chime with many and be appreciated even by those for whom those days are long gone.

8.

January 12, 2009
Critic Score
82
26 reviews
Icy but intimate, experimental but quietly infectious, Fever Ray’s debut deserves to garner the same admiration as The Knife, if not more.

7.

The Twilight Sad - Forget the Night Ahead
September 22, 2009
Critic Score
72
18 reviews

6.

May 26, 2009
Critic Score
81
30 reviews
It's not going to blow any minds, but for some it wont have to work very hard to stay on play rotation until the next Phoenix record, packed with uplifting sunny-day soundtracks as it is.

4.

August 17, 2009
Critic Score
84
28 reviews

The band’s resounding achievement ... is to infuse their music with melancholy without letting it lose buoyancy.

3.

June 9, 2009
Critic Score
86
38 reviews

While sometimes the avant-garde posturing can make for a chilly listen, emotionally at least, and the fragmented song structures can jar, there is no mistaking the radiating pop sensibility running throughout, which makes Bitte Orca a more accessible record than their past efforts, but a no less inventive one.

2.

January 6, 2009
Critic Score
92
37 reviews
Exploring the borders between out-and-out psychadelic chaos and pop accessibility, the album is rarely less than challenging, and isn't neccesarily the kind of album you'll be listening to on repeat - at least not at first.

1.

May 26, 2009
Critic Score
86
38 reviews

Veckatimest is deep, it’s rich, it’s soulful and on more than enough occasions it’s just good, old-fashioned, spine-shudderingly beautiful.

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