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.

You may remember earlier this year when Brandon put together a little show at a little bookstore in SoHo for which Dirty Projectors performed the little feat of composing a six-song suite for Björk in a week, after recording their best record to date, and then proceeded to blow everyone’s minds with it. There were only 300 or so lucky ones in the room that night, but after last night’s stop at Fallon, a lot more became privy to a piece of Dave Longstreth’s latest. At Housing Works the song was called “Until The Day I Die,” which Dave described to us as “Song of Amber, sighting the Whale, statement of devotion.” (The overarching piece is titled Mount Wittenberg Orca, which Dave said “is about a day three weeks ago that Amber Coffman was in Northern California watching whales from a mountain called Mount Wittenberg. The six songs are imagining the moment Amber saw this whale, and the whale saw her.” He also said Mount Wittenberg Orca was “definitely like Bitte Orca’s younger, hotter sister,” so there’s that.) Last night new DPs superfan Jimmy Fallon informed us its been retitled “When The World Comes To An End.” After it’s done, Fallon immediately says “You gotta come back” before asking of Amber, Haley, and Angel’s harmonies, “How did you do that?” Good question. We have video of that, and some pics and vid of Dirty Projectors making the Roots gush backstage. – Stereogum

download : Dirty Projectors – When The World Comes To An End (Live on Jimmy Fallon)

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Dirty Projectors did their network television debut a couple of days ago as they were invited on David Letterman to perform the opening track of their latest album [Bitte Orca], Cannibal Resource.

download : Dirty Projectors – Cannibal Resource

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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Here’s the official video for Dirty Projectors’ Stillness Is The Move directed by Matthew Lessner off their album Bitte Orca.

If that guy’s sweater doesn’t scream hipster … I don’t know what is lol, this song is also really growing on me.

download : Dirty Projectors – Stillness Is The Move