The year is halfway over and it got me thinking about what albums have come out this year that will make it on my Top 10 list. As I sat in the studio today making my list, I came up with many albums, more than 10 – some I love, some I want to listen to more, etc. So today on-air I featured some of the year’s (so far) best.  And THANK YOU to those who called in to tell me about your faves too!

Here’s a recap of some of my favorite albums of 2009, and also check out today’s 4-6pm playlist:

Albums that I play a lot:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
Royksopp – Junior
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
Fever Ray – S/T
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Aceyalone – The Lonely Ones
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
St. Vincent – Actor
Handsome Furs – Face Control
Peter Bjorn & John – Living Thing
Junior Boys – Begone Dull Care

Albums I need to listen to more, but like these artists/songs I’ve heard:
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
Jason Lytle – Yours Truly, The Commuter
Dan Deacon – Bromst
Metric – Fantasies
Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
Au Revoir Simone – Still Night, Still Light
Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Mos Def – The Ecstatic
Morrissey – Years of Refusal
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
Coathangers – Scramble
The Vaselines – Enter the Vaselines
Various Artists – Dark Was the Night
Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer

Albums by bands/artists that are newish to me:
Woods – Songs of Shame
Alice Russell – Pot of Gold
Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens – What Have You Done, My Brother?
Grouch & Eligh – Say G&E!
Wavves – S/T
Magic Wands – Magic Love and Dreams EP
Pains of Being Pure at Heart – S/T

I think this is a good start on some of the year’s best. What are you digging on in ’09? What did I miss? What local records? Discuss.

<3,
djAlisha.

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Written on Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 at 10:34 pm by DJAlisha. Follow comments with RSS just for this post.
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