Goldfrapp
Head First
Rocket

We Have Band
WHB
WHB

Kate Nash
My Best Friend is You
I just love you more

The Moons
Life on Earth
Nightmare Day

Malachai
Ugly side of love
How Long

Lostboy (aka Jim Kerr)
Lostboy
Shadowland

Sunshine Underground
Nobody’s coming to save you
Change Your Mind

Futureheads
The Chaos
Heartbeat Song

Let’s Wrestle
In the court of Wrestling Lets
I’m in Love with Destruction

Gorillaz
Plastic Beach
Empire Ants (Feat. Little Dragon)

Woodenbox with a Fistful of Fivers
myspace.com/awoodenbox
Home and the wild hunt
twisted mile

Two Door Cinema Club
Tourist History
You’re Not Stubborn

Canterbury
Single
Gloria

Joy Formidable
A Balloon called Moaning
Cradle

Goldfrapp
Head First
shiny and warm

Canterbury
Canterburythankyou.com (go get the whole CD here!)
Set You Right

The Moons
Life on Earth
Promise Not To Tell

Draw Me Stories
Single
Becomes The Hunted

Sunshine Underground
Nobody’s coming to save you
Any Minute Now

Lostboy (aka Jim Kerr)
Lostboy
Refugee (advance listen)

Malachai
Ugly side of love
Lay Down Stay Down

We Have Band
WHB
oh

Two Door Cinema Club
Tourist History
What You Know

The Notes
Those days, those nights (single)

New Young Pony Club
The Optimist
Oh Cherie

Gorillaz
Plastic Beach
Rhinestone Eyes

Hot Melts
Hot Melts
God Will Drive My Hearse

Malachai
Ugly Side of Love
Snowflake

De-railed
single
Come on out the rain

Two Door Cinema Club
Tourist History
Cigarettes In The Theatre

Imperial Leisure
single
Sitting In The Middle

Frightened Rabbit
The Winter of Mixed Drinks
the wrestle

Canterbury
Canterburythankyou.com
Diver

The Courteneers
Falcon
Will It Be This Way Forever

Chew Lips
Unicorn
Toro

Neon Highwire
LUMINESCENCE EP
Akira!

Das Wanderlust
single
Where Nobody Knows Your Name

Groove Armada (gorgeous song!!)
Black Light
Shameless (vocals by Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music)

Massive Attack
Saturday comes slowly (vocals by Daman Albarn)
Heligoland

New Young Pony Club
The optimist
Chaos

Marina & the Diamonds
The Family Jewels
Mowgli’s Road

Canterbury
www.Canterburythankyou.com
- Hometime

Deluka
OMFG
Deluka EP

The Painted Word
The Painted Word
The Painted Word & All your Life

Los Campesinos!
Romance is Boring
Romance is Boring & Who Fell Asleep in

The Heavy
The House that dirt built
No time

Zero 7
Yeah Ghost
Everything Up

Simian Mobile Disco
Temporary Pleasure
Off the Map

Victorian English Gentleman’s Club
Love on an oilrig
Driver’s companion

La Roux
La Roux
Growing Pains

Bad Lieutenant
Never Cry Another Tear
Dynamo

Canterbury
Canterburythankyou.com
Friends We’re More Like a Gang

These New Puritans
Hidden
Three Thousand

Deluka
Deluka EP
Mixed Message

La Roux
La Roux
quicksand

Wild Beasts
Two dancers
Empty nest

The Cribs – interview excerpt

The Cribs
Ignore the Ignorant
- save your secrets

The Clientele
Bonfires on the Heath
Share the Night

The Harmonics
Eight Miles High (single)

Joe Gideon & The Shark
Harum Scarum
Hide & Seek

Florence and the Machine
Lungs
I’m not calling you a liar

Maccabees
Wall of arms
one hand holding

Ian Brown
My Way
so high

The radio show / podcast of the best CDs of 2009 #30-#16 is here.

2009 Picks for the best CDs are selected amongst LPs only (as much as I loved some EPs this year….) AND based on the album’s overall quality — these albums below don’t just have 3 or 4 good songs on them – it’s a solid album that’s worth your download or walk-into-a-store-and-purchase time.

To listen to even more tracks from the artists below, go to 2009 Podcasts and do a search (“Edit”, “Find”) by artist name.

My top 30 CDs for 2008 are here.
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#15. Congrats to Canterbury – a group fresh out of the waters of 2009 – for recently celebrating over 10,000 free downloads of their CD. And while it’s gratis don’t think this is some ‘nothing’ CD that a bunch of wankers smashed together for no good reason. This is the type of CD you, we, *I should be out paying $ for… (using the money we *should get back from some of the baddies we *did buy this year!) . But thanks to ferocious competition and marketing these boys have pulled a smart move in ’09 by offering the 1st one and hopefully hooking us on their next one… We’ll be hearing more from them on the show in new year

Canterbury
CD Thank You (Free CD)
- take me out of the wall

#14. I must’ve played about half this album in ’09. Feel free to check past podcasts for the tunes from these Glaswegians.

Wake the President
CD You can’t change that boy
- Remember fun?

#13. Sounding a little like Arcade Fire are we? Well, they are sharing the same producer – but seriously, a beautiful album.

The Maccabees
CD Wall of Arms (May release)
- Love you better

#12. Welsh band SFA said this CD is meant to be played at outside venues only…sorry boys ..you’re indoors on the radio today! The CD is Led Zep, Jim Noir, Beach Boys and Thievery Corporation rolled into a summer ball of fun – with a few german lyrics just ta mess wit ur head! It’s prog, it’s art rock, it’s pop …. and it’s good.

Super Furry Animals
CD Dark days light Years
- white socks flip flops

#11. Pop Noise Records is the company that made the intellingent move to get behind Some Beans (AkA Andy Fonda). Thank you Pop Noise for supporting Andy who writes, play, and produces the CD (o you lay z lay z boy!). Almost every track is a pleasure. Think Portishead, Buck 65, Cut Chemist…. If you like this track, you’ll like the others that style between low-fi/ambient/electr/jazz/pop.

Some Beans
CD Fear and loathing in Tipton St. John
- Turning Blue

#10. A highly underrated CD of indie rock. It’s like well thought out twee with a fun twist … and lyrics you really you need to stop and listen to cause there’s actually some meaning in them (go figure)!

Art brut
CD Art brut Vs satan
- am I normal?

#9. Dance punk at its best! A new band from Carlisle, UK. Burn the Negative

Burn the Negative
CD In The Atmosphere (May release)
- she said she said

#8. My review of their CD on their website

The Lightyears
CD London, England (Jan. release)
- I’m not

#7. She redefined 80′s retro music (is that possible? …she re-retrod-retro?). A fun CD but don’t be fooled – there was many years of work gone into the making – hear about this and more in my 2009 interview with La Roux.

La Roux
CD La Roux (June)
- tigerlily

#6. The addition of Johnny Marr only makes this rock band even better than they’d already be with their 4th go around on a CD. Read my full CD review here. Stay tuned for my interview with them in Jan/10.

The Cribs
CD Ignore the ignorant (Sep. release)
- cheat on me

#5. My 2009 interview with Arctic Monkeys (Alex & Jamie). Artistic integrity & evolution was their goal for their 3rd CD and they did achieve it. …. yet in the back of my mind I can’t always help wondering if they reeaally needed to go to the Cali desert & NY to find it – considering all the production talent back home (granted some production was Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford). Nonetheless a great rock music output that shouldn’t have scared away as many base fans as it did – it’s just that this CD took a few more ‘go-rounds’ before you went ….yeah baby!

Arctic Monkeys
CD Humbug (Aug. release)
- Cornerstone

#4. My 2009 interview with Doves at the U.K. festival “Bestival”. My fav interview of the year??? I almost died from a cold waiting for them but it was worth it! The interview pics alongside the audio will give you the whole crazy fun.

Doves
CD Kingdom of Rust (April release)
- The Greatest Denier

#3. Great scots! …and just like the band in my #1 spot, they were early out of the gates in ’09 and held the bar high for all that followed. Every song on the CD (but one) is great. Even the slow song Katherine Kiss Me fits well. Do I like this CD better than their changed-the-music-landscape-and-reminded-the-world-where-scotland-was- 2004 debut album? .. hmmmm…..

Franz Ferdinand
CD Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Jan. release)
- no you girls

#2. My 2009 interview with Florence.I think I played almost every song off this album and some twice over. She’s got a gorgeous, emotive, and powerful voice, well drafted lyrics, songs from the quirky to the serious to the surreal, Flo is an entertainer and a dreamer all wrapped into one. My full album review is here.

Florence and the Machine
CD Lungs
- I’m not calling you a liar

#1. A great CD out from the gates in 2009. Wondered all year if it’d be topped and the answer came back 11 months later. Nope. Well Harry Mcveigh, Jack Lawrence Brown and Charles Cave, all in their early 20s gave us a complete, well rounded, well orchastrated, fabulously lyricized (is that a word?) album – carrying the gamut of emotions. 2010 is supposed to bring more work from these boys. I can hardly wait…though I’ll try (try) to temper expectations… and if they never produce anything better than this, I’ll still be happy for this one. My interview earlier this year with songwriter Charles Cave.

White lies
CD To lose my life (Jan. release)
- Farewell to the Playground

Also as discussed in the show, you’ll find the relevant links throughout this playlist…

Deluka
EP Deluka
- finito

Esser
CD Braveface
- Braveface

The Joy Formidable
- my Beerdrunk Sould is Sadder than a Hundred Dead Christmas Trees (single)

Mr. Hudson
CD Straight no chaser
- white lies

New Young Pony Club
CD The Optimist (release date: March 1)
- Lost A Girl (advanced single)

The Longcut
CD Open Hearts
- Out at the roots

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