2009. It happened.

I’m getting really bad at narrowing it down to my “10 Best Of” anything. I suppose that’s a good thing though as it just means there was plenty to be excited about this year! Let’s have a look.

Songs-

  • Dum Dum Girls “Hey Sis”
  • The Big Pink “Count Backwards from Ten”
  • Mayfair Set “Desert Fun”
  • The Horrors “Scarlet Fields”
  • Animal Collective “In the Flowers”
  • Crystal Stilts “The Dazzled”
  • Micachu and the Shapes “Calculator”
  • Pains of Being Pure At Heart “Higher Than the Stars”
  • The XX “Crystalised”
  • No Age “You’re a Target”
  • Male Bonding “Pumpkin”
  • Girls “Morning Light”
  • Real Estate “Fake Blues”
  • Best Coast “When I’m With You”
  • Atlas Sound “An Orchid”
  • Grizzly Bear “Two Weeks”
  • Veronica Falls “Found Love In a Graveyard”
  • Florence and the Machine “You Got the Love” XX remix
  • Reading Rainbow-I’ll Follow You
  • Frankie Rose-Hollow Life
  • Metric-Sick Muse (that’s right.)

Shows:

No Age & Fucked Up @ Coachella

No Deachunter @ Logan Square Chicago

The Horrors @ Nuemos

Fleet Foxes @ the Metro Chicago

Pissed Jeans @ Mercury Lounge

The Gossip @ Capitol Hill Block Party

The Kills @ Neumos

Beach House & The Walkmen @ Neumos