Playlist: December 23, 2009
My favorites from 2009, counting down from 20 to 1.
Fun City!
The Go-Betweens — That Way
20. Crayon Fields — All The Pleasures of the World (Chapter Music)
Disappear
19. Mark McGuire — VDSQ–Solo Acoustic Volume Two (Gneiss Things)
Front Porch Breeze
18. Tortoise — Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)
High Class Slim Came Floatin’ In
17. Slow Club — Yeah So (Moshi Moshi)
It Doesn’t Have to Be Beautiful
16. BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa — Man From Deep River (Editions Mego)
Man From Deep River Part II [fragment]
15. Grizzly Bear — Veckatimest (Warp)
Two Weeks
14. Simon Joyner — Out Into the Snow (Team Love)
The Arsonist
13. Bill Callahan — Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (Drag City)
Eid Ma Clack Shaw
12. Masha Qrella — Speak Low (Morr Music)
I Talk to the Trees
11. Giuseppe Ielasi — Aix (12k)
[untitled track 3]
10. Generationals — Con Law (Park the Van)
Nobody Could Change Your Mind
9. Kevin Drumm — Imperial Horizon (Hospital Productions)
Just Lay Down and Forget It [fragment]
8. Espers — III (Drag City)
Caroline
7. Jim O’Rourke — The Visitor (Drag City)
The Visitor [fragment]
6. Hermit Thrushes — Slight Fountain (Joyful Noise)
Snowflake Heart
5. Burning Hearts — Alboa Sleeping (Shelflife)
Sea Birds
4. Heather Woods Broderick — From the Ground (Preservation)
Wounded Bird
3. Grand Salvo — Soil Creatures (Preservation)
Sea
2. James Blackshaw — The Glass Bead Game (Young God)
Bled
1. David Sylvian — Manafon (Samadhi Sound)
Emily Dickinson