Hey! Manchester’s favourite albums of 2009

January 12 2010 | Category: Misc

Ok, so it’s a whole 12 days off the pace (I’ve been busy booking shiny new shows!) but I finally got round to making a list of my favourite albums of last year:

  1. Fever Ray – Fever Ray (Rabid Records)
  2. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Vs. Children (Tomlab)
  3. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
  4. Au Revoir Simone – Still Night, Still Light (Moshi Moshi)
  5. Sleeping States – In The Garden of the North (Bella Union)
  6. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (Warp)
  7. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers (Domino Recordings)
  8. The xx – xx (Young Turks/XL)
  9. Miike Snow – Miike Snow (Sony)
  10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz! (Polydor)
  11. At Swim Two Birds – Before You Left (Vespertine & Son)
  12. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca (Domino)
  13. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Up From Below (Community Records)
  14. Alaska in Winter – Holiday (Regular Beat)
  15. Taken By Trees – East Of Eden (Rough Trade)

Oh, and one more for good luck – favourite soundtrack of the year:

  • Clint Mansell – Moon OST (Black Records)

All these albums bar Grizzly Bear are rather handily available on Spotify – so click here for the Hey! Manchester albums of 2009 playlist.

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One response to “Hey! Manchester’s favourite albums of 2009”

  1. Dan Bowen
    January 12th, 2010 at 4:44 pm

    Excellent work fella, I look forward to checking this little lot out.

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