I remember last year, people were doing their Best Of lists in July. Thankfully, that trend has stopped. Amazon has their Best Albums of 2009 list, which is fairly, solid, but with a few headscratchers, and a few that are a little too high for my taste.
Here is the Top 10, including Neko at #1, which also might be a stretch.
Get the rest here.
Amazon Top 10 of 2009.
10 Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
9 Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
8 K'Naan - Troubadour
7 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
6 Girls - Album
5 The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
4 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
3 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
1 Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
wow, a lot of overated albums in there, is it just me or are animal collective the most overated indie band of all time?
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Posted by: L | November 08, 2009 at 04:14 AM
Animal Collective is good, but the problem is that they've become rather ubiquitous with indie music. Thus, all hipsters have to hate on them, less they appear to -be- a hipster.
It's a vicious cycle.
Posted by: D | November 12, 2009 at 09:52 PM
I Agree D, i'm not in the business of hating on bands, it's just unfortunately I can only find one song of theirs that I like. I suppose they're ubiquitous with indie music.
And btw, I would never consider myself a hipster - just a bloke that likes discovering and listening to new music :)
Posted by: L | November 18, 2009 at 05:11 AM