Presenting... 2009.
Or my favourite albums from 2009 so far. Oh yes. Fascinating. Recommending me anything I might have missed would be very cool too. |
| 1 |  | Dance Gavin Dance
Happiness
I'm pretty much a huge fanboy when it comes to DGD and this album pretty much rules in my eyes (or ears, I guess). It's catchy as balls and so goddamn funky, I love it. |
| 2 |  | Propagandhi
Supporting Caste
Awesome instrumentality and balls out aggression, with catchiness to boot. Awesome. |
| 3 |  | Poison The Well
The Tropic Rot
Unlike what seems like the majority I was a huge fan of PTW's last album Versions and with The Tropic Rot they only improved on that, really good stuff. |
| 4 |  | Mono
Hymn To The Immortal Wind
This has kind of grown off me a bit since I first heard it, but it's still pretty damn good post-rock as I'm sure most of you are aware. |
| 5 |  | And So I Watch You From Afar
And So I Watch You From Afar
Cool album is cool, post-rock with almost mathy guitar lines over the top. Nice. |
| 6 |  | Closure In Moscow
First Temple
Bombastic post-hardcore-ish stuff. It's full of energy and I love that, even if it's a bit, well, I'm not sure what I was going to say there. Whatever, I like it. |
| 7 |  | The Dear Hunter
Act III: Life and Death
The next act of Casey's ambitious project, Act III builds on everything from Act II and is just a great listen. |
| 8 | | mewithoutYou
It's all crazy it's all ugh I'm not even gonna bother it's not like the cover's gonna show up
I was kind of disappointed with this on first listen, but it's grown on me considerably. Still not quite as good as past releases though in my opinion. |
| 9 |  | Castevet
Summer Fences
Light hearted indie/emo that reminds me of American Football except if the vocals were gruff and masculine. Really cool. |
| 10 |  | Coalesce
Ox
Awesome comeback album after 10 years of nothing from these guys, good metalcore. |
| 11 |  | Emery
...In Shallow Seas We Sail
This album came as a bit of a surprise to me, I went into it expecting not to enjoy it, but on the contrary it's pretty damn good, really enjoyable listen. |
| 12 |  | So Many Dynamos
The Loud Wars
Really cool indie stuff, not quite as good as the album before this(Flashlights) in my opinion, but still a really fun listen all the same. |
| 13 |  | Spires
Flowers and Fireworks
Post-rocky screamo stuff. I'm a sucker for stuff like this. Really cool listen, although still remains in the shadow of Mesa Verde's release last year. |
| 14 |  | Trophy Scars
Bad Luck
Another progression from the likes of Trophy Scars, just a really enjoyable album, the vocals are a bit iffy at times but it's no big deal. |
| 15 |  | The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Worse Than Alone
A step forward from all their previous efforts (in my opinion anyway), TNTLLY take a more rhythmic approach to their.. genre, and it's pretty damn cool. Like this a lot. |
| 16 |  | My Heart To Joy
Seasons In Verse
More indie/emo similar to Algernon Cadwallader, just an enjoyable listen. |
| 17 |  | The Mars Volta
Octahedron
Not really sure whether to be disappointed in this or not, eh, The Mars Volta gone soft, I quite like each song individually but I can't really listen through a whole album of soft TMV songs. |
| 18 |  | Consider The Thief
Signs and Wonders
This album sounds an awful lot like Thrice at times (which is, of course, a good thing) and as a result is a pretty cool listen. Mhm. |
| 19 |  | Bomb The Music Industry!
Scrambles
Happy ska/punk for FREE. Yay! Really enjoyable listen, probably should be a bit higher up on this list. |
| 20 |  | The Syncope Threshold
Tale of the Complex Circuit
Technical metalcore stuff with pop punk bits. Yeah pretty cool, even if the pop punk bits are a bit, well, whiny? They're not that bad, I really enjoy listening to this. |
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