The shows that I attended this year, according to my computer’s calendar: Lykke Li, Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine, Doves, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Wighonomy Bros, Micachu, Tune-Yards (4times), Bon Iver, Flight of the Conchords, The Jesus Lizard, McCoy Tyner.

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2009 Best Albums (in no particular order)

Bibio-Ambivalence Avenue (Warp) Lover’s Carving

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Fever Ray – Fever Ray (Mute) If I Had A Heart

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The XX – XX (Young Turks) Basic Space

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Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay (Kompakt) Rollerskate

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St. Vincent – Actor (4AD) Save Me From What I Want

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Beach House – Devotion (Carpark) Heart Of Chambers

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Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca (Domino) No Intention

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Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)

Summertime Clothes

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Micahu & The Shapes – Jewellery (Rough Trade) Vulture

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Tune-Yards – Bird Brains (4AD/Marriage) Lions

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Mix of the Year:
Richie Hawtin – Tsugi 100th Podcast (Big Outside Festival 2009 Live Mix)

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Reissue of the Year:
Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (Sony) Cop Shoot Cop (Demo)

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Compilation of the Year:
5: 5 Years of Hyperdub (Hyperdub) Burial – Fostercare

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Live Recording of the Year:
Jeff Buckley – Live @ King Theater, Seattle May 7th 1995 (Sony) What Will You Say

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Box Set, Old but New Release of the Year:
Ella Fitzgerald – Twelve Nights in Hollywood (Hip-O Select) Angel Eyes

The Books performing “The Classy Penguin” @ the 2007 Wall of Sound Festival in Ft. Worth, Texas at LaGrave Field (Sept. 22nd)

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Bon Iver & St. Vincent – Roslyn – From the mega tween hit Twilight: New Moon soundtrack, this is another slow burner featuring Annie Clark.

Animal Collective – Bleeding – This track is off of the Fall Be Kind EP, and it’s another trippy journey into AC’s outter world of pop and dreams.

Tune-Yards – Real Live Flesh - The re-release, remastered version of Bird Brains includes this new R&B track which is one of the highlights from her live show. I’ll post up the live version pretty soon.

Prefuse 73 – So Much Over Time - A spliced-up number from Meditation Upon Meditations (The Japanese Diaries), which will be released shortly. Tourettes-inspired beats?

Milinal – Burn In Sky Ya - From Russian producer Yakovlev Valentine, and off of Audiobulb. This ambient flavored album features a Brendan Monroe design for the album cover which is similar to the Awakening shirt at Red Choo Choo.

I wanted to take the image of a wire coat hanger and make a shirt out of it with words,”Old School?” underneath it. It was going to be a pro-choice shirt. It may be lacking in a little tact, but it gets the point across. It can’t be worse than a PETA billboard.

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Brendan Monroe is currently having an exhibit at the Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. It’s entitled Places Between Here and Here. His work can also be seen at Red Choo Choo (Awakening, Crossing, Blob Sleep)

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Richie Hawtin has done the 100th podcast for Tsugi which is a live mix from the Big Outside Festival.  It’s the best live set/mix I’ve heard in a long time, and it harks back to Hawtin’s thumpier and funkier days and away from this boring minimal stuff that’s been the musical equivalent of Ambien for the past few years.

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Loöq Records has just release a new downtempo long player from Methodrone. It’s a departure from the their dance floor centered releases, and from the track, Slow It Down, it looks to be another stellar release from this San Francisco based label.

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Jon Brion – Little Person feat. Deanna Storey - From the Synecdoche, NY soundtrack, Jon Brion known for his excellent work on Paul Thomas Anderson films as well as being a member of The Grays and producing the stellar version of Fiona Apple’s Extraordinary Machine. A simple ode that puts Storey’s vocal upfront and center.

St. Vincent – Marrow - Annie Clark was a member of the Polyphonic Spree (don’t hold that against her) and a member of Sufjan Stevens’ live band, and on this album, Actor she again pumps and sprays her pleasantly skunk like juices on all of her songs. She knows how to use all of the spices instead of just the same old salt and pepper that normally goes with her brand of souffle.

Fever Ray with Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid – Here Before – A B-side, and an incredible cover of Vashti Bunyan’s song. It’s on the Stranger Than Kindness single.

Matias Aguayo – Menta Latte – Another contender for release of the year. His second full length release, and again Aguayo ventures further away from his Kompakt label mates by making some of the best music that goes beyond the boundaries of his techno (Closer Musik) heritage.