Best of 2009 Part III

Part III

These are the best 15 tracks of the past year-

Frank Turner- Sunday Nights
Fanfarlo- The walls are coming down/Finish Line
Leisure Society- Last of the melting snow
Conor Oberst- Map of the world
Peter Doherty- Last of the english roses
Bombay Bicycle Club- Always like this
Camera Obscura- French Navy
Emmy the great- First love
Fun. - At least i'm not as sad (as i used to be)
Golden Silvers- Another universe
Howling Bells- Treasure Hunt
Jamie T.- Sticks and stones
Jupiter one- Volcano
Marina and the diamonds- Mowgli's road

Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist November 2009

1. (00:03:30) the Da Vincis - Paper Planes
2. (00:04:04) The Mantles - Don't Lie
3. (00:03:23) No Age - You're A Target
4. (00:02:58) The Very Best - Julia (Javelin Re-do)
5. (00:03:26) The Silent Years - Taking Drugs At The Amusement Park
6. (00:03:36) Switches - Snakes and Ladders
7. (00:03:52) Dr. Dog - Heart it Races
8. (00:04:00) PacoVolume - Cookiemachine
9. (00:04:03) The Kickdrums - Out To Get Me!
10. (00:03:53) Jon and Roy - Another Noon
11. (00:04:44) Pet Ghost Project - Wires From The Ceiling
12. (00:03:05) Nicole Reynolds - When We Meet Again
13. (00:04:46) Frankie & The Heartstrings - Fragile
14. (00:03:23) Kittens Ablaze - This Machine is Dying
15. (00:03:57) Lixian Hantover - Rachel's New Apartment
16. (00:03:12) The Submarines - You, Me & The Bourgeoisie
17. (00:04:10) Marina & The Diamonds - Mowgli's Road
18. (00:03:05) A Broken Robot - All Here
19. (00:04:36) Parts & Labor - Nowheres Nigh
20. (00:02:45) Ex Lovers - Just A Silhouette
21. (00:03:46) The Lovely Feathers - Lowiza
22. (00:06:44) Warpaint - Billie Holiday
23. (00:02:15) P.S. Eliot - Like How You Are
24. (00:04:01) New Roman Times - Smoke In Your Disguise
25. (00:02:02) Shai Erlichman - Origami! (Ft. Wes + Cas Kaplan)
26. (00:03:05) Evan Voytas - Give It Back
27. (00:02:52) Historics - Skin Orders
28. (00:03:28) Vampire Weekend - Horchata
29. (00:02:52) Washed Out - New Theory
30. (00:03:07) Freelance Whales - Generator ^ First Floor
31. (00:04:29) Their Planes Will Block Out the Sun - Teflon Kids
32. (00:02:44) Looking Glass - Ah La Ha
33. (00:03:13) Taken By Trees - My Boys (Animal Collective Cover)
34. (00:06:57) The Flaming Lips - Powerless
35. (00:03:26) Fol Chen - The Longer U Wait (ft. Simone White)
36. (00:02:26) Saintseneca - God Bones
37. (00:04:13) Candy Claws - Catamaran
38. (00:03:04) The Happy Hollows - Death To Vivek Kemp
39. (00:03:33) Drummer - Feel Good Together
40. (00:03:57) Alec Ounsworth - That is not my Home (after Bruegel)
41. (00:03:32) Hallelujah The Hills - Wave Backwards To Massachusetts
42. (00:02:14) Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk - Train Fuzz
43. (00:04:44) Kordan - Fantasy Nation
44. (00:03:30) The Yes Pleases - 70%
45. (00:03:29) Total Babe - Bearbones
46. (00:02:45) Bluejuice - Head Of The Hawk
47. (00:03:10) Jesus H. Foxx - I'm Half the Man You Were
48. (00:06:39) Serena Ryder & The Beauties - The Funeral (Band Of Horses Cover)
49. (00:02:09) Josh Rouse - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths Cover)
50. (00:02:53) Joshua Radin - Sesame Street (Joe Raposo)
51. (00:03:34) Brandi Carlile - Dreams
52. (00:05:03) The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
53. (00:04:28) Sea Wolf - Wicked Blood
54. (00:04:50) Jamie T - The Man's Machine
55. (00:04:09) Phantogram - When I'm Small
56. (00:04:16) Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard - One Fast Move Or I'm Gone
57. (00:03:18) Built To Spill - Aisle 13
58. (00:03:30) Glass Ghost - Like a Diamond
59. (00:01:49) Karen O and the Kids - Igloo
60. (00:05:10) Levi Fuller - Colossal
61. (00:05:18) Noah And The Whale - Stranger
62. (00:03:10) Orba Squara - The Trouble With Flying
63. (00:03:42) Pugwash - The Season Of Flowers And Leaves
64. (00:03:22) System and Station - Love Etc.
65. (00:03:24) The Whigs - In The Dark
66. (00:04:36) Throw Me The Statue - Waving At The Shore
67. (00:03:50) You & Yourn - Double Knots
68. (00:04:00) dios Malos - I Don't Want To Marry You
69. (00:04:44) Mont Lyons - Love Over Mind
70. (00:03:41) Ape School - Be an Encore
71. (00:02:22) Jay Reatard - It Ain't Gonna Save Me
72. (00:03:20) M. Bison - All Things to All People
73. (00:02:46) Hawnay Troof - And I
74. (00:03:55) Bird Talk - Avenue
75. (00:03:10) Windmill - Big Boom
76. (00:03:15) Women - Black Rice
77. (00:03:17) I Was Totally Destroying It - Come Out, Come Out
78. (00:02:54) Jane Taylor - Cracks
79. (00:03:10) Uninhabitable Mansions - Do You Have a Strategy?
80. (00:02:23) Call The Doctor - For Your Leisure
81. (00:05:46) Teenage Cool Kids - Foreign Lands
82. (00:02:39) Headlights - Get Going
83. (00:02:38) Lou Barlow - Gravitate
84. (00:03:23) The Joy Formidable - Greyhounds in the Slips
85. (00:05:12) Karen O and the Kids - Hidaway
86. (00:03:14) Tim Williams - I Hit Another Wall
87. (00:05:27) Au - Ida Walked Away
88. (00:03:34) The Swell Season - In These Arms
89. (00:04:11) dios Malos - It Will Feel Good...
90. (00:01:34) Sabia Sensive - June Salutes You
91. (00:03:24) Spring Tigers - Just Suggesting
92. (00:03:50) Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster
93. (00:04:12) Old Canes - Little Bird Courage
94. (00:04:18) Three Mile Pilot - Longest Day
95. (00:03:57) Numbers Game - Love Dreams Love
96. (00:02:41) Amy Millan - Low Sail
97. (00:02:49) When I Was 12 - Make believe hearts
98. (00:04:33) Dead Man's Bones - My Body's A Zombie For You
99. (00:05:27) The Swindlers - November First
100. (00:32:04) Ishi - Pastel Lights
101. (00:03:42) Chris Garneau - Pirates Reprise
102. (00:04:03) Colourmusic - Put In A Little Gas
103. (00:04:50) Bon Iver & St. Vincent - Rosyln
104. (00:06:35) Dan Deacon - Slow with horns / Run for your life
105. (00:03:02) Espionage Of The Loc - Start Again
106. (00:04:22) Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land
107. (00:02:00) The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - Tear Down The Opera House
108. (00:05:32) Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - The Sound
109. (00:02:55) Los Campesinos! - There Are Listed Buildings
110. (00:03:34) The Library - Tomorrow Is Better
111. (00:03:40) Rubik - Wasteland
112. (00:03:00) Emmy The Great - Where Is My Mind
113. (00:04:02) Sea of Bees - Willis

NME's top 10 tracks you have to hear this week

From NME 13/5/09

This week's helping of free downloads, streams and video clips features a newie from Tiny Masters Of Today, a track from Just Jack that doesn't suck, and a slab of crunchy electro brilliance from Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.

1. Poppy And The Jezebels - Rhubarb And Custard
A whirling, wonderfully airy, big-sounding single from the teenage überfraus. They’re now possibly just old enough to stop us vomiting in fear every time their name is mentioned and could almost be Bombay Bicycle Club’s sonic sisters. Yet there’s something charmingly early-’90s UK indie, baggy-psychedelic about this track, singer Mollie Kingsley cooing flower-eyed “slide revolving, pink and yellow… out of body into very strange” like Harriet Wheeler from The Sundays singing with Inspiral Carpets.

2. Tiny Masters Of Today - Pop Chart
Continuing this week’s teen theme, New York siblings Ivan and Ada might have a way with bubblegum choruses but there’s an edge to their cuteness. This seemingly innocuous skipalong, like The White Stripes playing Cornershop’s ‘Brimful Of Asha’, masks a succinct dig at industry whores, “so rich it isn’t funny”. Still sticking it to the man, still only 15 and 13. Our money is not on the man.

3. The Sounds – Dorchester Hotel
You’d be forgiven for thinking Sweden is filled with shoegazey melancholics tapping tambourines while they sit on sturdy furniture. Helsingborg’s The Sounds, however, have been dedicated to ripping Scandipop a new one. Ballsy and punchy, this tale of a troubled rendezvous at a very posh London hotel makes us remember how good proper pop-rock can be. Stick that in yer Peter Bjorn And John and smoke it.

4. Lovelikefire - Stand In Your Shoes
Full-throated indie along the lines of their hometown heroes The Killers in their pre-“are we dancer?” days, or a rougher-edged Howling Bells, this also has a hint of a dark country-rock edge, like an answer record to one of Ryan Adam’s more anthemic moments. Ann Yu offers a troubled friend some perspective from her point of view, urging “it’s easy to see when you’re out of your body”, before a delicate mid-section ends in a huge clattering climax, Yu howling “I can imagine!”. Psychodramatic.

5. Archangel - Do It Again
One-man-band Nick Webber spent a year and a half holed up in a Wiltshire studio recording his debut ‘How To Lose Your Best Friend’. Now, he’s been thrust into the glare of adoration by this ace Steely Dan cover (no, really). Not exactly representative of his brooding, tetchy art-rock, it’s warm and infectious, like Athlete if they weren’t cack. Check out the awesome blog-sensation stop-motion stick-man video, too.

6. Just Jack - Doctor Doctor
Stop! Get it out of your mind. Don’t think about it. Don’t think about 'Starz In Their Eyes'. Too late, right? Well, if you can’t put it from your mind, the tight, funky-dancing awesomeness of this cruelly funny taste of Jack’s second album will. In no way quirky or annoying, it’s bitchy and beaty, and “She’s no verse, mostly chorus/Between those ears there’s mostly sawdust”, rates among the best kiss-off lines we’ve heard lately.

7. The Veronicas – Untouched
For too long, there’s been a pop no-woman’s land. On one side, you have adamantium-surfaced replicants such as Lady GaGa, Beyoncé and Girls Aloud, coyly cooing the words of faceless geniuses. On the other, you have the more identifiable, in-creative-control, more ‘real’ pop stars: your Allens, Nashes, Santigolds. But now! From Australia, twins Jessica and Lisa Origliasso. Yes! They write their own songs. Yes! They look like they wash their perfect hair in God’s tears. Yes! Their laser-tooled electro-emo brims with genuine teenage emotion and thrills coldly with its perfect structure. The new breed? Oh yes.

8. Jamie T - Sticks And Stones
Polish, sheen and glamour: very nice, very nice, very nice, but sometimes all the smooth airbrushed edges around nowadays get to us a little. We crave scuzz. Scuzz, yodelling, and messy energy. Bless this day, then, when we finally see a single release for this shit-kicking, adrenaline-rushing track, a sharp-witted snapshot of panic on the streets of the UK, first debuted at V2008. Argy-bargy never sounded so chirpy.

9. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Moon Hits The Mirrorball
Ahhhhhh. That is the sound of our huge relief at coming across a piece of deeply satisying, inventive, crunchy dance music that isn’t mired in either smug retro irony or ‘ooh, no, I’m all about the cock, me’ try-hard sleaze. Radiantly wired with housey energy that hints at Les Rhythmes Digitales or Daft Punk but keeps ’80s references at bay, this track is taken from TEED’s fantastically varied forthcoming EP as part of the International Sonic Wrestling series on New York’s Greco-Roman label.

10. Them:Youth - Bows And Arrows
“Sleeping fallen angel, you ain’t blind… You won’t find a broken-hearted boy who thinks about you more than me…” You won’t find many people flaunting their hearts like that in London. With a heartsore sound calling to mind Delphic and Doves, this is the sort of thing you turn up on headphones when staring out of train windows.