Top 10 Albums 2009!

New Music | Top 10 Albums 2009

Alas, dear friends, for I fear little Phoenix may have squeezed into the mainstream. And Animal Collective? Really? Maybe we're safe for another year, I don't know. Anyway bonjour and welcome to le top 10 for 2009 as dictated by NMB. No Grizzly Bear, no thanks. No Kasabian, no thanks. Just pure 2009 style quality, a vintage year that competes strongly with 2008. 

1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. Passion Pit - Manners
3. Deadmau5 - For Lack of a Better Name
4. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
5. DM Stith - Heavy Ghost
6. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
7. Sally Shapiro - My Guilty Pleasure
8. St Vincent - Actor
9. Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light
10. The Thermals - Now We Can See

And best music related video has to (by so far it's not even really fair) go to Spike Jonze and Kanye. Congratulations?

Phoenix - Love Like A Sunset (Animal Collective Remix)

New Music | Phoenix | Animal Collective

Always the highlight of any Phoenix gig is when little Thomas gives up his mic in favour of lying on the floor, for an extended version of an instrumental track like North, Congratulations or, most recently, Love Like a Sunset. But, to be honest, Love Like a Sunset drags on a little but on the album. Just saying. What? Shut up. You go on a little bit. So enter Animal Collective and things get a little sexier, as you'd expect. And the band like it too, apparently.

Phoenix - Love Like A Sunset (Animal Collective Remix).mp3

Animal Collective - My Girls

New Music | Animal CollectiveGirls are so 2009. Social stats are so 2008. Synth overload in this puppy - enjoy the echoes wash over you, perhaps whilst taking a cool bath on one of these warm January days. I say warm, and I mean rubbish. Where's the snow? That'll do. Old st later.

Animal Collective - My Girls.mp3