Asian Dan

Here are my obligatory end of 2009 lists, a very strong and exciting year for music. Of course Phoenix, Miike Snow, Bibio, Classixx, and Joy Orbison dominate my lists. Too much good music this year hence the more than 10 tracks. Twenty-ten! Year of the tiger!

Best Albums of 2009

Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
Miike Snow – Miike Snow
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Simian Mobile Disco – Temporary Pleasure
Tiga – Ciao!
Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
Mayer Hawthorne – A Strange Arrangement
Passion Pit – Manners
The xx – The xx

Best Songs of 2009

Miike Snow – Silvia
Phoenix – 1901
Late of the Pier – Blueberry
Magistrates – Heartbreak
The Dead Weather – Treat Me Like Your Mother
Simian Mobile Disco – Off The Map (feat. Jamie Lidell)
Friendly Fires – Kiss of Life
Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work
Emil & Friends – Josephine
Julian Casablancas – 11th Dimension
Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
Burial – Fostercare
Ali Love – Diminishing Returns
Ellie Goulding – Under the Sheets
Bibio – Lover’s Carvings
Mount Kimbie – Maybes
Bat for Lashes – Daniel
Passion Pit – The Reeling

Kings of Leon – Use Somebody *Song of the Century*

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