Writer Top Tens, 2009
Brett Spaceman
1. The Boxer Rebellion – Union
2. Last Days – The Safety of The North
3. Grammatics – Grammatics
4. Jeniferever – Spring Tides
5. Japanese Gum – Hey Folks. Nevermind. We are all falling down
6. The Twilight Sad – Forget The Night Ahead
7. The Joy Formidable – A Balloon called Moaning
8. Vib Gyor – We are not an island
9. port-royal – Dying In Time
10. Black Swan Lane – The Sun And The Moon Sessions
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Mike Henaghan
1. The Weirding / Astra (Rise Above Records)
2. The Safety of the North / Last Days (n5MD)
3. Hymn to the Immortal Wind / Mono (Temporary Residence)
4. Cradlesongs / Sleeping Me (Hidden Shoal Recordings)
5. Kappe / Svarte Greiner (Type)
6. Collected Recordings / Gareth Dickson (Drifitng Falling)
7. Some Ambulance / Talvihorros (Benbecula)
8. Choral / Mountains (Thrill Jockey)
9. Performing Parades / Efterklang (Leaf Label)
10. Soundcheck To A Missing Movie / HC-B (Hidden Shoal Recordings)
Rob Gannon
1. Antony & The Johnsons – The Crying Light
2. Japandroids – Post-Nothing
3. The Antlers – Hospice
4. HEALTH – Get Color
5. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
6. Crystal Stilts – Alight Of Night
7. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
8. The Horrors – Primary Colours
9. The xx – xx
10. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
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Cath Aubergine
1. Maps – Turning The Mind
2. The Longcut – Open Hearts
3. worriedaboutsatan – Arrivals
4. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
5. Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
6. Daniel Land And The Modern Painters – Love Songs For The Chemical Generation
7. British Sea Power – Man Of Aran
8. Brakes – Rock Is Dodelijk
9. Liam Frost – We Ain’t Got No Money Honey But We Got Rain
10. Sad Day For Puppets – Unknown Colors
Phil Lawton
1. Hour Of The Shipwreck – The Hour Is Upon Us
2. Rhian Sheehan – Standing In Silence
3. Ozric Tentacles – The Yum Yum Tree
4. Mum – Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know
5. Eferklang – Performing Parades
6. Robert Henke – Layering Buddha
7. Motion Turns It On – Kaleidoscopic Equinox
8. Nostalgia 77 – One Offs, Remixes & B-sides
9. Theo Travis – Ascending – Live At The Pizza
10. Urban Myth Club – Helium
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Jon Leonard (alphabetically)
Ø Editors – In This Light And On This Evening
Ø Engineers – Three Fact Fader
Ø Hawley, Richard – Treulove’s Gutter
Ø Horrors, The – Primary Colours
Ø Hotels – Where Hearts Go Broke
Ø Junior Boys – Begone Dull Care
Ø Lee & Willbee – North Carolina
Ø Mummers, The – Tale To Tell
Ø Painted Romans – Evil Wigs And Bedroom Moments
Ø Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
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Tim Clarke
1. Opsvik & Jennings – A Dream I Used To Remember (Loyal Label)
2. Nudge – As Good As Gone (Kranky)
3. Jim O’Rourke – The Visitor (Drag City)
4. Mastodon – Crack The Skye (Reprise)
5. Ben Frost – By The Throat (Bedroom Community)
6. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (Warp)
7. Do Make Say Think – Other Truths (Constellation)
8. Dinosaur Jr – Farm (Jagjaguwar)
9. Volcano Choir – Unmap (Jagjaguwar)
10. Tortoise – Beacons Of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)
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Russell Clarke
1. The Phantom Band : Checkmate Savage
2. The Duckworth Lewis Method: The Duckworth Lewis Method.
3. Mummers ;Tale To Tell
4. Broken Records ;Until The Earth Begins To Part
5. Soap & Skin ;Lovetune For Vacuum.
6. The Big Pink ; A Brief History Of Love.
7. Soothsayers; One More Reason.
8. The Clientele ; Bonfires On The Heath
9. Richard Hawley ;Truelove,s Gutter.
10. Jonsi & Alex ; Riceboy Sleeps.
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Dez Innocent
1. BLEEDING HEART NARRATIVE – Tongue Tangled Hair (Tartarug
2. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
3. DALEK – Gutter Tactics (Ipecac)
4. 10-20 – 10-20 (Highpoint Lowlife)
5. MONO – Hymn to the Immortal Wind (Temporary Residence)
6. WILLIAM BASINSKI – 92982 (2062)
7. SUNN O)) – Monoliths and Dimensions (Southern Lord)
8. CLARK – Totem Flares (Warp)
9. HARMONIC 313 – When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence (Warp)
10. EVANGELISTA – Prince of Truth (Constellation)
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The Indie Dad (Tracks)
1. Jamie T – Sticks ‘N’ Stones
2. The Drums – Don’t Be A Jerk, Johnny
3. Health – Die Slow
4. The Horrors – New Ice Age
5. Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Higher Than The Stars (Others In Conversation Remix)
6. Fuck Buttons – Space Mountain into Flight Of The Feathered Serpent
7. Nosferatu D2 – Colonel Parker
8. Dead Man’s Bones – Pa Pa Power
9. The Streets – He’s Behind You, He’s Got Swine Flu
10. Swing Youth –“Myself To Blame
10. Ste McCabe – Murder Music