Ten Albums...

Not my official Best of 2009, but definitely my favorite new stuff over the past few months.

1. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer

2. Japandroids - Post-Nothing

3. The Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

4. Clues - s/t

5. Crystal Antlers - Tentacles

6. Disappears - Live over the Rainbo

7. Yppah - They Know What Ghost Know

8. The Poison Arrows - First Class, and Forever

9. From Monument to Masses - Of Little Known Frequencies

10. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There are Mountains

Honorable Mentions:

Wooden Shjips - Dos

Antlers - Hospice

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Dan Deacon - Bromst

Randomly Assembled Mix, ides of July...

1. Sunset Rubdown - Us Ones in Between
2. Tortoise - Prepare Your Coffin
3. Tortoise - Tin Cans & Twine
4. Wilderness - Beautiful Alarms
5. The American Analog Set - Come Home Baby Julie Come Home
6. Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes
7. Bon Iver - Skinny Love
8. Bottomless Pit - Dead Man's Blues
9. Buring Airlines - Song with No Words
10. Calexico - All Systems Red
11. Caribou - Niobe
12. Elbow - Mexican Standoff
13. Faraquet - Conceptual Separation of Self
14. From Monument to Masses - Deafening
15. The Poison Arrows - Future Wine

A Top Ten...

Ten Bands I'm Listening to A Lot...

1. Maserati
2. Wilderness
3. Red Sparowes
4. Bottomless Pit
5. Obits
6. Constantines (especially the cover of "Islands in the Stream" with Feist)
7. The National
8. Elbow
9. Miles Davis (think Bitches' Brew)
10.Beulah