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?

Top 10 Ones To Watch 2009 (1-5)

New Music | Top 10 Ones To Watch 2009

As SXSW advances, NMB have created a nice little list to keep you amused throught these hard times. Keep those GI Joe Eagle Eyes on this lot over the summer, it promises to be a pretty damn awesome festival season. Here's the rundown - hit the links for New Music Blog recommended tunes:

1. St Vincent - If this tune ends up on a T Mobile advert I will bite off my thumb and replace this entire list with Scouting For Girls.

2. Friendly Fires - Already set for the Big Chill, these guys have such huge tunes like Paris & Skeleton Boy that they literally cannot fail. Or can they? No.

3. Crystal Antlers - Hot in the blogosphere, crap name, awesome tunes.

 

4. Phoenix - An already huge yet cult following has kept Phoenix as Europe's best kept secret. We reckon something on new album WOLFGANG AMADEUS PHOENIX will kick things wide open.

 

5. Dan Black - First up for the Calvin Harris Award For Becoming Famous With Popular-At-Festivals Electro Pop.

 
 
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St Vincent - Strangers

New Music | St VincentSo from simple we head straight into confusingly complex, but the bizarre Disney style intro/outro vocals give this something that brings out the child in me and since half listening to this from another room it's been on repeat for probably a bit too long now. Paint the black hole blacker. Yeah?

St Vincent - Strangers.mp3