Marina and the Diamonds
Family Jewels
The Outsider

Love Ends Disaster!
City of Glass
There’s Room In My Tardis For Two

The Moons
Life on Earth
Chinese Whispers

Let’s Wrestle
In the Court of the Wrestling Lets
It’s Not Going to Happen

Chemical Brothers
Further
swoon

Kele
The boxer
Rise

Autokratz
Animal
speak in silence

Florence and the Machine
Twilight Eclipse OST
heavy in your arms

Ellie Goulding
lights
guns and horses

The Chap
Well done Europe
pain fan

Sunshine Underground
Nobody’s coming to save you
Here it Comes

Lanterns on the Lake
single
Lungs quicken

Soooo… what do you think???

ARTIST:FORMAT:TRACK
Deluka
Deluka EP
Cascade

Malachai
Ugly side of Love
Lay Down Stay Down

Lightspeed Champion
Life is Sweet Nice to meet you
Middle of the Dark

Florence and the Machine
Lungs
Dog Days are over

We Have Band
WHB
Hear it in the Cans

Here’s the 2010 release….

And here’s the 2008 low(er) budget version…while Flo was still relatively unknown…

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

Wild Beasts
CD Two Dancers
- the fun power plot

Morrissey
CD Swords
- Good looking man about town

Ian Brown
CD My way
- Vanity Kills

Zero 7
CD Yeah Ghost
- Medicine Man

Gemma Ray
CD Lights Out Zoltar!
- Death Roll

Florence and the Machine
CD Lungs
- hurricane drunk

Simian Mobile Disco
CD Temporary Pleasure
- Audacity of Huge

Just Jack
CD All night cinema
- Goth In The Disco

Fanfarlo
CD Reservoir
- The Walls are Coming Down

Hot Melts
CD Hot Melts
- Fun

Frank Turner
CD Poetry of the deed
- Richard Divine

Jarvis Cocker
CD Further complications
- I Never Said I Was Deep

He asks Flo some great questions and she sings her songs live. what’a'voice.

http://www.kcrw.com/media-player/mediaPlayer2.html?type=audio&id=mb091030florence_and_the_mac

Apart from my usual discussion on new releases, artist news and my Hallowe’en costume this year   …here’s the tracks from today’s show….

Playlist:

Patrick Wolf
CD The bachelor
- Battle

The Cribs
CD Ignore the Ignorant
save your secrets

Detachments
CD out spring 2010
- The Flowers That Fell (single)

Arctic Monkeys
CD Humbug
- Dance Little Liar

The Vals (from Belfast, N.Ireland)
new CD Sticks and Stones
- Yesterday Today

The Longcut
CD Open hearts
- something inside

Editors
CD In This Light And On This Evening
Papillon

Florence Welch (from Florence and the Machine) – Interview Excerpt

Florence and the Machine
CD Lungs
- you’ve got the love

Big Pink
CD A Brief History of Love
- Velvet

Fuck Buttons
New CD Tarot Sport
- Rough Steez

Wave Machines
CD Wave If you’re Really There
Keep The Lights On

Basement Jaxx
CD Scars
- a possibility

Burn the Negative
CD In the atmosphere
- camden

http://cowbell.fm/track/153100-florence-the-machine-youve-got-the-love-xx-remix

The article can be found here:

http://www.exploremusic.com/essential-reading/2009-10-22/Five-British-Acts-to-Watch-This-Fall

Stream / download a podcast of some of the reviewed music here:

http://taraoweb.com/blog/2009/10/oct-21-2009-podcast-playlist/

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