 | Moondagger by Deastro
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $3.90 Holy moly, what a surprise. This is an electronic masterpiece. Love all tracks, but "Toxic Crusaders" is one of my top tracks of 09.
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 | Remind Me Where the Light Is by Great Northern
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.10 'Houses' is one of my top tracks of 2009. Amazon's description is apt: 'upbeat, guitar-driven songs, yet with the familiar layered vocals and sweeping panoramic sounds'.
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 | Ellipse (Bonus Track Version) by Imogen Heap
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $15.89 Beautiful and creative, I'm impressed. Varied instrumental, pace, & tones. I like nearly all tracks, but 'Swoon', 'Tidal', '2-1', 'Bad Body Double', 'Aha!', & 'Canvas' are my faves.
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 | Manners by Passion Pit
Buy used from: $6.98 'Kingdom Come' is one of my top tracks of 2009. 'The Reeling' is fun, and both have great videos!
Amazon Reviewer "I'm Detective John Kimble! 'cooker'" says: 'Manners is a fun, energetic pop album, full of great hooks, danceable beats, and a little endearing strangeness.'
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 | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.99 'Fences', 'Lisztomania', & '1901' fave tracks. Kinda sound a bit like the Beta Band but heavier/faster/dancier.
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 | Junior by Röyksopp
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.09 beautiful gurgling synths...'Vision One' and 'Happy Up Here' fave tracks
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 | The Rex the Dog Show by Rex the Dog
Buy new: $27.98 / Used from: $8.97 An Amazon reviewer DIOONER sums up the sound: 'Hi-energy electro pop...a cross between Vince Clarke-era Depeche Mode (for the songwriting and addictive hooks) and early Kurtis Mantronik stuff (for the shake-your-booty to wipe the floor dynamics and colossal basslines), while aiming toward a more cutting-edge dancefloor sound, closer to the likes of Calvin Harris, Tiga or even a few Soulwax stuff.'
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 | In This Light & on This Evening by Editors
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $12.77 I can't wait to get this one. I like what I've heard so far...It's not as good as "An End Has a Start" from 07!
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 | Glistening Pleasure by Natalie Portman's Shaved Head
Buy used from: $22.50 Fun quirky dance party stuff. Fave tracks: 'Confections, Ice Age Babeland, Me + Yr Daughter, L.A. Noir, Holding Hands in the Shower...'
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 | Eon by Grafton Primary
Buy used from: $7.05 New wavey-synthpop dance. Love nearly all of these. 2009 for US. 'All stars' is a great track!
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 | X Marks Destination by The Whip
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $0.98 Such a great CD! Technically my top for 2008, but excuse to re-list, released in US 2009. I never get sick of 'Sister Siam'...
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 | It's Blitz! by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $8.64 'Heads Will Roll' (one of my fave tracks of 09) and 'Zero' (tie)!
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 | Ready for the Weekend by Calvin Harris
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $7.58 'I'm Not Alone' has some cool house synths, fun electro dance tracks...
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 | Sainthood by Tegan and Sara
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.50 quirky pop rock. "Hell" is a fun track. Download free mp3 on Amazon :)
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 | Tonight:Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.97 'No You Girls' is so catchy and funky
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 | No More Stories Are Told Today Sorry... by Mew
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $5.54 Fave tracks: 'Introducing Palace Players', 'Tricks of the Trade', 'Vaccine'. Can't explain their style.
Amazon Reviewer David Chris Dalton explains it well: 'Mew defy classification and expectation. If The Jonas Brothers and Coldplay made a record with 1970s King Crimson and Rush...produced by Kate Bush. Maybe that would start to begin to explain what is happening here.'
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 | Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.94 Fave tracks: 'My Girls' and 'Summertime Clothes'
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 | Conditions by The Temper Trap
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.88 Lovely indie rock. Good variety of songs Love 'Sweet Disposition', 'Fader', 'Drum Song', and 'Science of Fear'. Screw Pitchfork's pretentious lousy rating.
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 | Reservoir by Fanfarlo
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $3.00 Fave song 'The Walls Are Coming Down'
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 | Entertainment by Fischerspooner
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $4.25 most tracks are a new-wavey synth delight
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 | White Water, White Bloom
Buy new: $9.90 Another haunting mellow indie rock beauty. Love "Wicked Blood"
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 | Kingdom of Rust by Doves
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.81 Fave tracks 'Kindgdom of Rust', Jetstream, 'Compulsion'. shimmery alt rock with substance.
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 | Swoon by Silversun Pickups
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.25 |
 | Middle Cyclone by Neko Case
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $8.15 Neko's voice is stirring, and at the same time relaxing. Soulful raw emotion. And love the album artwork and most of the songs.
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 | Psychic Chasms by Neon Indian
Buy new: $13.99 trippy disco-psych jams, fairly unique sound.
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 | The Fountain by Echo & the Bunnymen
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $7.24 Sounds a lot like usual Echo & The Bunnymen. <3
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 | Let It Beep
Buy new: $8.99 Funky Brit pop/rock. 'War Bells' and 'Your Car is Haunted' are fave tracks.
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 | Un by Dan Black
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $11.00 'Alone' has the coolest stop motion video. Fairly unique pop.
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 | Sunshower EP
Buy new: $4.45 Catchy alternative rock w/ female vocals, unique sound. Like Metric on steroids. 'East of Hercules' and 'The Conductor' are my faves. Too bad it's only an EP so far!
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 | Fantasies by Metric
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $9.95 |
 | Islands by The Mary Onettes
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $8.33 Very dreamy new wave, echo/cure/new orderish etc. Love love love!
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 | Another City Another Sorry by The Answering Machine
Buy new: $27.98 / Used from: $29.95 Fave track: 'Cliffer'
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 | The Hazards of Love by The Decemberists
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.78 |
 | Fantasy Black Channel by Late of the Pier
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $1.98 Official Amazon Review snippet: 'Not every band can throw shards of Zappa, Queen, Eno-era Roxy Music, Prince, Gary Numan, DFA, Bloc Party and The Klaxons into a blender and come out with something as defiantly unique and grandly anthemic.'
NME mag says "Fresh, Original & Very Smart. Prepare Yourself: This Band Are The Future."
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 | There Is No Enemy by Built to Spill
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $8.75 Quality stuff as always.
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 | The Birth by Stardeath & White Dwarfs
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $2.25 Fave tracks: 'I Can't Get Away' & 'New Heat'. Quirky indie/pop/rock, and of course silly name.
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 | Years of Refusal by Morrissey
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.64 Fave tracks 'I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris' and 'Black Cloud'
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 | XX by Xx
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.99 |
 | A Brief History of Love by The Big Pink
Buy new: $13.99 Fave track: 'Dominoes'
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 | To Lose My Life . . . by White Lies
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.60 interpol-ish/editors/joy division influnences
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