Friday, January 01, 2010

Music 2009

Some of the music that had my attention during 2009. Again, this year saw me exploring 70's stuff I unwisely bypassed during the punk/new wave era. My big discovery was Todd Rundgren's "Something, Anything" album, which I now love passionately.

David Sylvian: Manafon
Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavillion
The Blue Nile: High
The XX: XX
Bruno Sanfillippo: Auralspace
Saito Koji: Time Line
Steve Roach: Dynamic Stillness
Todd Rundgren: Something, Anything
Todd Rundgren: The Hermit of Mink Hollow
Pink Floyd: Animals
Al Stewart: Time Passages
REM: Accelerate
Anouar Brahem: The Astounding Eyes of Rita
Bill Frisell: Disfarmer
The Bug: London Zoo
Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
African Head Charge: Songs of Praise
Joe Henry: Civilians
Monolake: Cinemascope
Alan Parsons Project: I Robot
Sunn0))): Monoliths & Dimensions
The Flaming Lips: Embryonic
Crowded House: Time on Earth
Bruce Springsteen: The River
Inverz: Slow
Pete Namlook: Seasons
Jerry Burns
Robert Rich: Somnium
Mono: Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Jon Hassell: Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street
Jon Hassell: Dream Theory in Malaya
Jon Hassell: The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound