Best of Rock 2009
(Read the reviews)
8/10
- Gnaw Their Tongues: Rend Each Other Like Wild Beasts (At War WIth False Noise)
7.5/10
- Leyland Kirby: Sadly The Future Is No Longer What It Was (History Always Favours The Winners)
- Mi Ami: Watersports (Quarter Stick)
- Yoga: Megafauna (Holy Mountain)
- Dan Deacon: Bromst (Carpark)
- Jim O'Rourke: The Visitor (Drag City)
7/10
- Elegi: Varde (Miasmah)
- Kreng: L'Autopsie Phenomenale De Dieu (Miasmah)
- Shit and Shine: 229-2299 Girls Against Shit (Riot Season)
- L'Acephale: Stahlhartes Gehause (Aurora Borealis)
- Anahita: Matricaria (Important)
- Dalek: Gutter Tactics (Ipecac)
- Legion Of Two: Riffs (Planet Mu)
- DM Stith: Heavy Ghost (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Black Vomit: Jungle Death (Rusty Axe)
- William Fowler Collins: Perdition Hill Radio (Type)
- Irr App (Ext): Kreiselwelle (Helen Scarsdale Agency)
- Cave: Psychic Psummer (Important)
- Antlers: Hospice (Frenchkiss)
- Oneida: Rated O (Jagjaguwar)
- Andrew Bird: Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
- Necks: Silverwater (ReR)
- Clubroot: Clubroot (Lo Dubs)
- Caethua: The Long Afternoon Of Earth (Preservation)
- Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport (ATP)
- JJ: JJ Nø 2 (Sincerely Yours)
- Soap And Skin: Lovetune For Vacuum (PIAS)
- Doves: Kingdom of Rust (Astralwerks)
- Azita: How Will You (Drag City)
- Fever Ray: Fever Ray (Rabid)
- Health: Get Color (Lovepump United)
- Dead Weather: Horehound (Reprise)
- Alexander Turnquist: As the Twilight Crane Dreams in Color (VHF)
- Japandroids: Post-Nothing (Polyvinyl)
- Micachu: Jewellery (Rough Trade)
- Silvester Anfang: Sylvester Anfang II (Aurora Borealis)
- Night Control: Death Control (Kill Shaman)
- Worriedaboutsatan: Arrivals (Gizeh)
- Barn Owl: The Conjurer (Root Strata)
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Playlist
- Micachu: Sweetheart
- Amen Dunes: Amen Dunes
- Mirah: The Forest
- Crystal Antlers: Time Erased
- Dan Deacon: Build Voice
- Doves: Kingdom of Rust
- DM Stith: Creekmouth
- Fever Ray: If I Had A Heart
- Pains Of Being Pure At Heart: The Tenure Itch
- Vivian Girls: Out For The Sun
- Blues Control: Good Morning
- A Place to Bury Strangers: Deadbeat
- Night Control: No Making
- Soap and Skin: Extinguish Me
- Zola Jesus: Nativity
- St Vincent: Actor Out Of Work
- Azita: I'm Happy
- Terminal Sound System: Constructing Towers
- Dead Weather: Treat Me Like Your Mother
- Decemberists: The Rake's Song
- Patrick Wolf: Oblivion
- Dalek: Armed with Krylon
- Bon Iver: Woods
- Mi Ami: Echonoecho
- Vivian Girls: I Have No Fun
- Green Day: Know Your Enemy
- Girls: Hellhole Ratrace
- Jj: From Africa To Malaga
- Thee Oh Sees: Ruby Go Home
- Mirah: Country Of The Future
- Beat Circus: The Life You Save May Be Your Own
- Zola Jesus: Tell It To The Willow
- Azita: Away
- Bachelorette: Mindwarp
- Animal Collective: Summertime Clothes
- Bill Callahan: Eid Ma Clack Shaw
- Fever Ray: Now's The Only Time I Know
- A Sunny Day In Glasgow: Ashes Maths
- Andrew Bird: Effigy
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Heads Will Roll
- Antony: Dust And Water
- Beat Circus: Petrified Man
- Bat For Lashes: Daniel
- Mos Def: Quiet Dog Bite Hard
- Vivian Girls: I'm Not Asleep
- Cave: Machines & Muscles
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Zero
- Dirty Projectors: Stillness Is The Move
- Neko Case: I'm An Animal
- Antony: Daylight And The Sun
- Thermals: When We Were Alive
- Converge: Dark Horse
- Fiery Furnaces: Even In The Rain
- Japandroids: Sovereignty
- Peste Noise: Ballade Cuntre Les Anemis De La France
- Reigning Sound: Brake It
- Wavves: Beach Goth
- Darkstar: Aidy's Girl Is A Computer
- Bruce Springsteen: Surprise Surprise
- Joe Henry: Bellwether
- Xx: Infinity
- Yacht: The Afterlife
- Manic Street Preachers: Marlon J.D.
- Flaming Lips: Watching the Planets
- Mountain Goats: Genesis 30:3
- Passion Pit: Little Secrets
- Thao Nguyen: Cool Yourself
- Very Best: Julia
- Yacht: Summer Song
Extended tracks
- Jim O'Rourke: The Visitor
- Silvester Anfang: Burkelbos
- Purling Hiss: Almost Washed My Hair
- Shit and Shine: Roberts Church Problems
- Gnaw Their Tongues: Rend Each Other Like Wild Beasts
- White Rainbow: Tuesday Rollers and Strollers
- Leyland Kirby: When We Parted My Heart Wanted To Die
- Wolves In The Throne Room: Hate Crystal
- Necks: Silverwater
- Mountains: Etching
- Black to Comm: Forst
- Purling Hiss: Purple Kiss
- Blues Control: On Through The Night
- L'Acephale: Stahlhartes Gehause
- Irr. App. (Ext.): Kreiselwelle
- Leyland Kirby: And As I Sat Beside You
- Anahita: Pirin Planina
- Mountains: Choral
- William Fowler Collins: Dark Country Road
- Oneida: 10:30 At The Oasis
- Worriedaboutsatan: Arrivals
- Chris Corsano: Fire
- Shit and Shine: Have You Really Thought About Your Presentation?
- Masaki Batoh & Helena Espvall: Until Tomorrow
- Erdem Helvacioglu: Lead Crystal Marbles
- John Frusciante: Before the Beginning
- Black to Comm: Charlemagne & Pippin
- Zs: Music of the Modern White
- Dalek: Who Medgar Evers Was
- Billy Bao: May08- V
- Mi Ami: White Wife
- Skullflower: A'arab Zaraq
- Alexander Turnquist: Statues In The Dark - Shadows Collide
- Cave: Encino Men
- Gog: Mist From The Random More
- Mono: Burial At Sea
- Leyland Kirby: And At Dawn Armed With Glowing Patience
- Chris Corsano: The Main Ingredient
- Wolves In The Throne Room: Crystal Ammunition
- Sunn O))): Big Church
- Andrew Bird: Carrion Suite
- Expo '70: Hamadryad
- Anahita: Velvet Shoon
- Mountains: Add Infinity
- Concern: Heartsink
- Worriedaboutsatan: I Am A Crooked Man
- Portal: Marityme
- Brulvahnatu: Suffer Long
- Woods: September With Pete
- Brock Van Wey: I Knew Happiness Once
- Barn Owl: Ancient Of Days
- Yo La Tengo: And The Glitter Is Gone
- Leyland Kirby: Stralauer Peninsula
- Jepsydho: Ur-symphonie [Download from Mediafire with artist's permission]
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Jazz
- Dave Hurley: Outer Nebula, Inner Nebula (Porter)
- Vijay Iver: Historicity
- Ergo: Multitude Solitude (Cuneiform)
- Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines
- Steve Lehman: Travil Transformation and Flow
- Bill Frisell: Disfarmer
- Henry Threadgill: This Brings to Us
- Joe Lovano: Us Five (Blue Note)
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