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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