Favorite Recordings of 2009
Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear
Maker - Pontiak
All My Friends Are Funeral Singers - Califone
The Life of the Word to Come - The Mountain Goats
Bonfires on the Heath - The Clientele
Through the Devil Softly - Hope Sandoval
There Is No Enemy - Built to Spill
Hard to Find: Singles and Unrealesed 2000-2005 - American Analog Set
Lost Versus Live - Mark Kozelek
Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle - Bill Callahan
Around the Well - Iron and Wine
Actor - St. Vincent
Popular Songs - Yo La Tengo
The Crying Light - Anthony & the Johnsons
Beware - Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Dark Was the Night - Various
Arts & Crafts Sampler - Various
Song of the Pearl - Arbouretum
Blood Bank - Bon Iver
Sub Pop Sampler - Various
Jagjaguwar Sampler - Various
Barsuk Records Sampler - Various
Magnolia - Wooden Birds
Middle Cyclone - Neko Case
Nobel Beast - Andrew Bird
#1 Hits Explosion - The Apples in Stereo
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Favorite Recordings of 2008 (in no particular order)
- Lie Down in the Light by Bonnie "Prince" Billy
- Acid Tongue by Jenny Lewis
- For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver
- The BBC Sessions by Belle and Sebastian
- Real Emotional Trash by Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
- The Hungry Saw by Tindersticks
- Car Alarm by The Sea and Cake
- Swimmer by The Standard
- Retribution Gospel Choir by Retribution Gospel Choir
- Oh (Ohio) by Lambchop
- All Shook Down (Expanded Edition) by The Replacements
- On High by Kate Maki
- Seventh Tree by Goldfrapp
- High Time by Pit Er Pat
- Nights LP by Mark Kozelek
- Provisions by Giant Sand