It’s the end of the decade, (or thank god this year is over). Here is BUST’s wrap up of 2009’s best music releases.
Music Editor Laurie’s list:
1. Fever Ray Fever Ray (Mute)
2. Gemma Ray Lights Out, Zoltar! (Bronzerat)
3. Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti)
4. Deradoorian High Road (love pump united)
5. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest (Warp)
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs it’s blitz (interscope)
7. Devendra Banhart What will be (warner bros)
8. St. Vincent Actor (4AD)
9. Jarvis Cocker Further Complications (Rough Trade)
10. Dead Weather Horehound (Third Man)
Associate Music editor Kelly McClure’s list:
1. Julian Plenti Julian Plenti Is Skyscraper (Matador)
2. Jemina Pearl Break it Up (Universal/Ecstatic Peace)
3. Mount Eerie Wind’s Poem (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
4. Volcano Choir Unmap (Jagjaguar)
5. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino)
6. M. Ward Hold Time (Merge)
7. Thao w/the Get Down Stay Down Know Better/Learn Faster (kill rock stars)
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Its Blitz (Interscope)
9. Fever Ray Fever Ray (mute)
10. Pine Hill Haints To Win or To Lose (K)
