What better ways to restart this well oiled steam machine than posting the newest video for Animal Collective’s single Brothersport, off their heavily acclaimed album, Merriweather Post Pavilion.

download : Animal Collective – Brothersport

download : Phoenix – 1901
download : Phoenix – Lisztomania

download : Dirty Projectors – Stillness Is The Move

download : The Lonely Island – I’m On A Boat ft. T-Pain

download : Animal Collective – My Girls

download : Simian Mobile Disco – Audacity of Huge ft. Chris Keating

download : Grizzly Bear – While We Wait For The Others

download : Jay-Z – Empire State of Mind ft. Alicia Keys

download : Clipse – Kinda Like A Big Deal ft. Kanye West

download : Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll

worth mentionning : The xx – Islands, Metric – Help I’m Alive, Empire of the Sun – Standing On The Shore, Japandroids – Young Hearts Spark Fire, Camera Obscura – French Navy, La Roux – Bulletproof, Florence + The Machine – You’ve Got The Love

If last year retrospective was called ‘Laisse Moi Tranquille 2008‘ since it was quite fitting considering the fact that I wanted nothing else from it, 2009 on the other hand was quite different, like I said in my previous post, it shared it’s own of ups and downs but the pace was more stable than 2008… leaving me time to breathe, which was a very good thing.

Anyway, I’ve always found that making lists was a bit egotastic as everyone has different tastes and rarely you will find an universal list for anything, at least a list that is ranked. Which is why, my lists are not actually ranked as I also find it very hard to put music in order, especially when so many good albums came out in 2009.

I highly suggest to check out the albums that I listed down below if you never did or heard of them before. They’re also accompagnied by reviews, a thing that I never (or rarely) did before, something I’ll probably look up to in twenty ten.

download : Phoenix – 1901

download : Florence + The Machine – You’ve Got The Love

download : KiD CuDi – Heart Of A Lion

download : Mr. Hudson – Time

download : Grizzly Bear – Ready, Able

download : Animal Collective – My Girls

download : Dirty Projectors – Stillness Is The Move

download : Passion Pit – Little Secrets

download : Miike Snow – Silvia

worth mentioning: Jay-Z – Blueprint 3, Handsome Furs – Face Control, Metric – Fantasies, Japandroids – Post-Nothing, Patrick Watson – Wooden Arms, Fever Ray – Fever Ray, Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz, La Roux – La Roux, Bat For Lashes – Daniel, The xx – xx

ps. I had to make them as images, because I couldn’t format my post in ‘advanced html’ with the use of <div> nor <table> … somehow Tumblr does not allow that.

Might be late, but still relevant, here’s the new Animal Collective video for In The Flowers, the fourth single off their latest album Merriweather Post Pavillon that dropped almost a year ago from now.

download : Animal Collective – In The Flowers

So we’re already six months in 2009 and well into the seventh … here’s a little shortlist of what I thought best of what was released so far (in no particular order). I know Top 30 might seems like an odd number, but I just wrote down songs off the top of my head and it ended up around 28, so i added 2 more to reach 30. You might also notice that I play around with the release dates of the songs, some of them leaked in 2008 and are still on the list, because they were officially released in 2009 and so on … anyway, here it is in no particular order.

download : Mr. Hudson – Supernova ft. Kanye West
download : Dan Black – Symphonies
download : Dirty Projectors – Stillness Is The Move
download : Phoenix – Liztomania
download : Lupe Fiasco – Shining Down ft. Matthew Santos
download : Camera Obscura – French Navy
download : Clipse – Kinda Like A Big Deal ft. Kanye West
download : Little Boots – New In Town
download : Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll
download : Phoenix – 1901
download : The Lonely Island – I’m On A Boat ft. T-Pain
download : N.A.S.A – Gifted ft. Kanye West, Lykke Li & Santigold / Aoki Remix
download : Animal Collective – My Girls
download : Metric – Help I’m Alive / Acoustic
download : Kid CuDi – Make Her Say ft. Kanye West, Common & A-Trak
download : Frankmusik – Better Off As Two
download : Coeur de Pirate – Umbrella (Rihanna Cover)
download : Timid Tigers – Are You Gonna Go My Way ft Lenny Kravitz, Ludacris & Notorious B.I.G.
download : Manchester Orchestra – I’ve Got Friends
download : Kanye West – Paranoid ft. Mr. Hudson / Big Sean Remix
download : Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
download : Keri Hilson – Turnin’ Me On ft. T-Pain & Lil Wayne (Remix)
download : Passion Pit – Moth’s Wings
download : Drake – Best I’ve Ever Had
download : Simian Mobile Disco – Audacity of Huge ft. Chris Keating
download : Bat For Lashes – Daniel
download : Asher Roth – I Love College / Chamillionaire Remix
download : Chester French – She Loves Everybody / Shawn Chrystopher Remix
download : Daniel Merriweather – Change ft. Wale
download : La Roux – Quicksand
download : Handsome Furs – I’m Confused

Oh and Charles Hamilton getting punched in the face by his on/off girlfriend, that shit was priceless …

ps. I wanted to squeeze in I’m Not Alone of Calvin Harris, but couldn’t find the mp3 on any of my computers and neither on the web.

And that will be all folks.

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Video for Animal Collective’s ‘Summertime Clothes’ featuring the Brooklyn based FLEX dance crew. ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’ is out now on Domino.

While the Animal Collective are somewhat boring live, I have to say that all of their videoclips off Merriweather Post Pavilion are pretty amazing, and this one is no exception.

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Animal Collective passing on David Letterman playing Summertime Clothes off their latest album Merriweather Post Pavillion.

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I posted the album a while back, for you to discover, and if you didn’t get it … well you are definitely missing something. Don’t take my words for it, but The New York Times and every other major music site have been calling it one of the best albums in recent years. So yeah, you are probably missing out.

Animal Collective has also announced a full spring tour.

previously : Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

few leaked tracks from their upcoming album.

download : Animal Collective – My Girls
download : Animal Collective – Brothersport