favorite music of 2009.
I don’t feel complete unless I’ve compiled a list ranking my favorite music of the year (too many NYEs spent up late listening to the top 100 countdown on the headphones.) So, here goes:
favorite 30 albums
top 5 albums
favorite 20 songs
favorite 10 videos
the best echo & the bunnymen song/video I’ve heard/seen in a long time
The Horrors “Whole New Way.”
I can smell halloween on the warm, autumn breeze.
new favorite song: the horrors “sea within a sea”
I don’t know what to say, but this new Horrors album has me completely hooked and obsessed. No matter how contrived their approach may be nor how transparent their influences are, I can’t help but be swept away by their music. A near perfect synthesis of everything I love about the post-punk genre is extant here—moreso nowhere else than in the last song on the album, Sea Within a Sea.
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