Top 100 Albums of 2009: #100-70

100. The Fauns - The Fauns

Label: Laser Ghost Recordings
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Shoegaze/Indie/Dream Pop
Origin: Bristol, UK
Listen if you like/Recommended to fans of: Slowdive, Engineers, A Sunny Day In Glasgow

Track pics: Cool Stuff, 1991, Lovestruck

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
Purchase the album here

99. The Psyke Project - Dead Storm


Label: Lifeforce Records
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Post-Metal/Hardcore/Progressive Metal/Sludge
Origin: Copenhagen, Denmark
Listen if you like/Recommended to fans of: Buried Inside, Kehlvin, Celestine, Swallow The Ocean, Kongh

Track Pics: Stockholm Bloodbath, Polaris, Forget The Forgotten, Winter

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
Purchase the album here or here

98. To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie - Marlone


Label: Kranky, The Riley Bushman Recordings & Archives
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Shoegaze/Experimental/Noise
Origin: Minneapolis, USA
Listen if you like/recommended to fans of: Grouper, Have A Nice Life, Autistic Daughters, early Deerhunter, Planning For Burial

Track Picks: The Needle, I Hear You Coming, But Your Steps Are Too Loud

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
Purchase the album here or here

97. Redjetson - Other Arms


Label: Gizeh Records
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Indie Rock/Post-Rock
Origin: Essex, UK
Listen if you like/recommended to fans of: Junius, iLiKETRAiNS, Jeniferever, Japanese Sunday, eaststrikewest, IRA

Track Picks: Soldiers & Dinosaurs, For Those Who Died Dancing, Threnody

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
Purchase the album here or here

96. Glaciers - And The Sea Won The Battle


Label: Self-released
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Post-Rock/Instrumental
Origin: Oakland, California, USA
Listen if you like/recommended to fans of: Explosions In The Sky, Caspian, If These Trees Could Talk, A New Silent Corporation, etc.

Track Picks: Give My Regards To Hope And Prosperity, Providence

Give them a look-see at Myspace Last.fm
Purchase the album here or here

95. Methadone - Uno (I)


Label: zyknet rec.
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Ambient/Drone/Experimental
Origin: Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Nadja, Snow Lark on the Temple Mt. Doom, Bosch's With You

Track Picks: Lonely Farmer, Afternoon

Give them a look-see at: Myspace
Download the album for free here

94. Dextro - Winded


Label: 16k Records
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Ambient/IDM/Downtempo/Experimental
Origin: Glasgow, Scotland
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Four Tet, Syntaks, Worriedaboutsatan

Track Picks: Closer, Distance

Give him a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
Purchase the album here or here

93. Callisto - Providence


Label: Fullstream Records
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Post-Metal/Post-Rock/Sludge
Origin: Turku, Finland
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Cult Of Luna, Hellas Mounds, Intronaut, Tid

Track Picks: Covenant Colours, New Canaan

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
Purchase the album here or here

92. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years


Label: Rough Trade
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Indie Rock/Psychedelic/Experimental Rock
Origin: Cardiff, Wales
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Supergrass, The Beta Band, Gruff Rhys

Track Picks: Mt.; The Very Best Of Neil Diamond; White Socks, Flip Flops; Helium Hearts; Pric

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
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91. Latitudes - Agonist


Label: Shelsmusic
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Post-Metal/Instrumental/Sludge/Post-Rock
Origin: London, UK
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: PELICAN, Bossk, Blackwaves, *Shels

Track Picks: Hunting Dance, Fluxes Of The Womb

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
Purchase the album here or here

90. GREYMACHINE - Disconnected


Label: Hydra Head Records
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Noise/Drone/Experimental/Industrial/Ambient
Origin: USA, Wales
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Jesu, Godflesh, Nadja, Pyramids

Track Picks: Vultures Descend, Wasted

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
Purchase the album here or here

89. Kodiak - Kodiak


Label: Denovali Records
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Doom Metal/Drone/Post-Rock/Ambient
Origin: Germany
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Black Shape Of Nexus, Nadja

Key Tacks: Beginning

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
Purchase the album here

88. Blindead - Impulse EP


Label: Foreshadow Music
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Post-Metal/Sludge/Post-Rock/Ambient
Origin: Gdynia, Poland
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Cult Of Luna, Neurosis, Rosetta, Conifer, Disappearer, Mouth Of The Architect, North, Seven Nautical Miles, Suffocate For Fuck Sake

Track Picks: Distant Earths

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
Purchase the EP here or here

87. Heirs - Alchera


Label: Denovali Records (Europe), EXO Records (Australia)
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Post-Rock/Instrumental/Experimental/Progressive
Origin: Victoria, Australia
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Hand Of Fatima, Toundra, Ender

Track Picks: The White Swell

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
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86. Nice Wings, Icarus! - Nice Wings, Icarus!


Label: Незарегистрированные
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Post-Rock/Instrumental/Post-Metal
Origin: Kiev, Ukraine
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Not too sure, pretty much anything of good Post-Rock quality...

Track Picks: Morning Glory, Across The Seas

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm

85. Ender - Ender


Label: Darkroom Recordings
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Post-Rock/Instrumental/Ambient/Experimental
Origin: Auckland, New Zealand
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Jakob, Heirs, MONO, Braveyoung, Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Track Picks: Part 2, Part 3

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
Purchase the album here

84. A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Ashes Grammar


Label: Carrot Top Records
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Shoegaze/Indie/Dream Pop
Origin: Philadelphia, USA
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Lotus Plaza, Atlas Sound, Beach House, The Fauns

Track Picks: Close Chorus, Nitetime Rainbows

Give them a look-se at: Myspace Last.fm
Purchase the album here or here

83. Giardini Di Mirò - Il Fuoco


Label: Punk...not diet
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Post-Rock/Instrumental/Experimental/Ambient
Origin: Reggio Emili, Italy
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Mogwai, Slint, Képzelt Város, Misuse, My Education, Rachel's

Giardini Di Mirò's most experimental and darkest record to date. It's a soundtrack to an old silent film, so don't expect the trademark Giardini sounds on this one...but it is rather beautiful.

Track Picks: The whole album works as a whole so none really...

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
Stream the entire album here

82. Black Math Horseman - Wyllt


Label: Tee Pee Records
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Progressive Rock/Post-Rock/Psychedelic/Experimental/Stoner Rock
Origin: Los Angeles, USA
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Giant Squid, Minsk, U.S. Christmas

Track Picks: A Barren Cause

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
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81. Eleventh He Reaches London - Hollow Be My Name


Label: Good Cop Bad Cop
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Post-Rock/Alternative
Origin: Perth, Australia
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Balboa

Track Picks: Hollow Be My Name

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
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80. Képzelt Város - Mit Nekem


Label: Self-Released
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Post-Rock/Instrumental/Experimental
Origin: Budapest, Hungary
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Blueneck, Tides From Nebula, Three Steps To The Ocean, Arctic Plateau

Track Picks: Hercules, Sergei6

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
Download the album for free here

79. Tides From Nebula - Aura


Label: Lou & Rocked Boys
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Post-Rock/Instrumental
Origin: Warsaw, Poland
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Caspian, If These Trees Could Talk, Gifts From Enola, Because Of Ghosts, The Calm Blue Sea, Pet Slimmers Of The Year, Russian Circles, Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start

Track Picks: Higgs Boson, Purr, Shall We?

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
Purchase the album here

78. Worriedaboutsatan - Arrivals


Label: Gizeh Records
Year: 2009
Genre/s: IDM/Ambient/Experimental
Origin: Leeds, UK
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Syntaks, Tortoise, World's End Girlfriend, The Shadow Project, MOLY, Miaou, Doi

Track Picks: Evil Dogs, I Am A Crooked Man, You're In My Thoughts

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
Purchase the album here or here

77. Snow Lark on the Temple Mt. Doom - Guardian Or Avenger


Label: Digitalis Ltd.
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Ambient/Drone/Experimental
Origin: France
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Natural Snow Buildings, Pyramids, Nadja, Stars Of The Lid, Jasper TX

Track Picks: Guardian Or Avenger (Part Two), Ice Shelf, Bath

Give her a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm and here

76. Battlefields - Thresholds Of Imbalance



Label: Translation Loss
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Post-Metal/Sludge
Origin: Fargo, North Dakota, USA
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Mouth Of The Architect, Supercontinent, Irreversible, Year Of No Light

Track Picks: Blueprint, The Thresholds, Quake And Flood

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
Purchase the album here or here

75. Marasme - Marasme EP


Label: Self-Released
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Sludge/Post-Metal/Progressive Metal
Origin: Balears, Spain
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Arms Of Ra, Mountains Among Us, Blackwaves

Track Picks: Waves

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm

74. A New Silent Corporation - Everything Is Exactly As It Seems


Label: Self-Released
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Post-Rock/Instrumental/Ambient
Origin: Thiene, Vicenza, Italy
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Arctic Plateau, ...And Stars Collide, Glaciers, Three Steps To The Ocean, Mt., ctrlaltdelete

Track Picks: Will Noise, Maple

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
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73. eaststrikewest - w o l v v e s


Label: Thirty Days Of Night
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Post-Rock/Indie/Shoegaze
Origin: London, UK
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Moving Mountains, Darker My Love, Redjetson, Junius, Constants, IRA

Track Picks: Welcoming The Ghosts

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
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72. Blackwaves - 0130


Label: Forgotten Empire Records
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Post-Metal/Instrumental/Doom Metal/Sludge
Origin: Hamburg, Germany
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: PELICAN, Latitudes, Overmars, Disappearer, Empires

Track Picks: 0133 6C, 0134 E9

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
Purchase the album here

71. Russian Circles - Geneva


Label: Suicide Squeeze
Genre/s: Post-Rock/Post-Metal/Instrumental
Origin: Chicago, USA
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Red Sparowes, ISIS, Long Distance Calling, PELICAN

Track Picks: Geneva, When The Mountain Comes To Muhamm

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm
Purchase the album here or here

70. Methadrone - Better Living (Through Chemistry)


Label: Consouling Sounds
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Drone/Shoegaze/Ambient/Experimental
Origin: New Jersey, USA
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Nadja, Kodiak, The Angelic Process, Planning For Burial, Jesu

Track Picks: Better Living (Through Chemistry), Buprenorphene, Toward Elysium

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm

Write-ups will be done for the top 30...stay tuned...

Fall Of Efrafa - Inlé

Label: Sound Devastation Records
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Post-Metal/Post-Rock/Sludge
Origin: Brighton, UK
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Cult Of Luna, Bossk, General Lee, Rosetta, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Neurosis, Callisto

Fall Of Efrafa's final album in the "Warren Of Snares" trilogy is something to hold dear. It marks the farewell of the band, and it is also their masterpiece. The last two albums from this band, although were decent enough efforts, didn't reach the potential and awesomeness this band showed. Inlé does everything their previous efforts couldn't do, and it does it comfortably. EPIC is the best way you can describe this LP. It's a mammoth of an album. Five of the seven tracks all surpass the 10-minute mark, totaling the album at 80 minutes. Everything has leaped by miles on this effort. The riffs, the instrumentation, the vocals, the atmosphere, the production, everything. Build-ups that easily stand up with all of the above artists I mentioned (May not sound like GY!BE, but the influences are evident). "The Burial" is as beautiful as any music can ever get, but once the final track "The Warren Of Snares" starts, it's the band's final farewell and their defining masterwork. So, who said the apocalypse can't be beautiful?

Track Pics: The Burial, Woundwort, The Warren Of Snares

Final Score: 93%

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm

Download the album here

Lullabye Arkestra - Threats/Worship

Label: Vice
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Hard Rock/Stoner Rock/Drum 'n Bass Duo/Rock 'n Roll/Garage Rock
Origin: Toronto, Canada
Listen If You Like/Recommended to fans of: Death From Above 1979

Lullabye Arkestra is a duo comprised of Justin Small and Katia Taylor. Justin is on drums and his partner Katia is on bass. Oh and by the way they kick huge freakin' ass. This here is one fuzzed-out, loud, sweaty, intense and rocking record. Both members are frequent members of the Indie scene. Justin Small is in the amazing Do Make Say Think, but Lullabye's sound is the complete opposite of DMST's Post-Rock tones. Let's face it Lullabye Arkestra are pure booty shaking hard rock, and "Threats/Worship" takes no prisoners, it destroys. It's dirty, it's loud, it's Lullabye Arkestra.

Track Pics: Get Nervous, Icy Hands, We Fuck The Night, Euroshima

Final Score: 73%

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm

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The Antlers - Hospice

Label: Frenchkiss Records
Year: 2009
Genre/s: Indie/Post-Rock/Ambient/Slowcore
Origin: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Listen if you like/recommended to fans of: Efterklang, Deerhunter, Blueneck

Complex, heartfelt, atmospheric, beautiful. These are some of the many qualities that are so apparent and obvious in The Antlers latest effort. The lyrics tell the tale of a man losing a loved one to bone cancer, it's not exactly happy, shiney stuff, but it certainly is an album to be caught up in. "Kettering" officially starts the tale and perfectly sets up the atmosphere for the album which ultimately ends in tragedy. This atmosphere remains constant, but it ends before you know it. One of the finest concept albums in recent memory. Not for casual listening, and the faint of heart. Hospice is as fragile as life, yet it's as beautiful as anything you could ever possibly hear...

Track Pics: Kettering, Two, Wake

Final Score: 82%

Give them a look-see at: Myspace Last.fm

Download the album here