Album Of 2009

20 - Anthony Da Costa -Not Afraid Of Nothing
"Acoustic acidity, joy of the most sublime which replays the laziness of summer"

19 - Brakes - Touchdown
"A album full of lyrical abundance and fun fun fun"

18 - Slow Club - Let's Fall Back In Love
"Mismatch of several formulas equalling a concoction of excellence"

17 - Me Succeeds - Riemerling
"Beats under an electro heartbreak of a sunless sky"

16 - Das Pop - Self titled
"A Debut of Spiky Pop, delivered in perfection"

15 - Metric - Fantasies
" Haines Vocals leave a questioning lust, a love forgotten and forever lost"

14 - Lights Action - Welcome To The New Cold World
"Fear, Retribution, Fragile, Cold, Dark, Mellow and forever remembered"

13 - Neils Children - X.Enc
"A Harrowing cacophony of disturbed paranoia born out of this modern life"

12 - Burning Hearts - Aboa Sleeping
"A beauty through song that builds a pattern which is matched in delightful delivery"

11 - Flaming Lips - Embryonic
"A Vintage visit to a past, while sounding fresh, exciting and new"

10 - Frankmusik - Complete Me
"A Bedroom dwelling made album, with all the hallmarks of a come to listen eyes"

09 - Grizzly Bear - Vecatimest
"Soothing sounds imagine the mind, awaken the soul and breathe fresh ideas into a stale music world"

08 - My Robot Friend - Soft-Core
"From Producer to Performer a delivery in it's polished parity"

07 - Windmill
"The Modern idea without a trace of the past"

06 - Manic Street Preachers - Journal of Plague Lovers
"Almost Everything, nearly Holy and exceptionally their truth, The Poet and the Preachers finest of the decade"

05 - I Hate This Place - Snowlights
"A More brash, more inventive, and more illuminating record cannot be found for all it's flaws, it's highs outlast"

04 - Duckworth Lewis Method - Self titled
"Hit for Six, Bowled Middle Stump, a yorker, a dolly, a Leap of faith, a snorter, a yorker, a 3 figure finish.......certainly no cliche."

03 - Luke Leighfield - Have You Got Heart?
"Dripping with solace, awoken in beauty, the songs have a meaning, the lyrics a soul, the boy a Heart"

02 - Karima Francis - The Author
"Written in struggle, delivered in tears, no track left unfinished from beginning to end"

01 - Johnny Foreigner - Grace & The Bigger Picture
"Song structure of the finest, tales from the city, feelings from the coast, a song for every thought, feeling and emotion."






So there you have it, another year of great music (Not as great in my view as before mind) but Johnny Foreigner have topped my list once again, making a second album that is as good as the first is some achievement, and so they deserve it. Credit to all that made my list, and especially the top 4, in the end it was a tough choice between all 4. I even now think that anyone could have made number 1, but I've never given a band two number 1's in a row, and Johnny Foreigner deserved it.

Bring on 2010........