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
Purchase the album here or here
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
Purchase the album here or here
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
Purchase the album here or here
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
Purchase the album here or here
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
Download the album for free (or name your price) here and purchase it here
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
Purchase the album here and here
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...
