In no particular order (also may not have come out this year, but this is the year in which I purchased them)
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Jack Penate - Everything's New
Weezer - Raditude
Coconut Records - Davy
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Blind Pilot - 3 Rounds and Sound
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
I've been really feeling the New Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic and the new self-titled Say Anything albums. For both of these bands their last albums were pretty dissapointing I wasn't sure but now that I have heard the new stuff a few times I can honestly say they're good and worth at least giving a listen to. Also, Jack Johnson - En Concert The Album is really good if you like to listen to live stuff.
My completely subjective top 5 albums:
1. St. Vincent - Actor
2. William Fitzsimmons - The Sparrow and the Crow
3. Various artists - Dark Was the Night
4. Bon Iver - Blood Bank (EP)
5. Beirut - March of the Zapotec (Split EP, kind of)
Top 5
Poison the Well - The Tropic Rot
A Plea for Purging - Depravity
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage 2
The Sorrow - Origin of the Storm
Swallow the Sun - New Moon
Personal discovery of the year
Tie Innerpartysystem and The Sorrow
cannibal corpse-eviceration plague
cattle decapitation-the harvest floor
maudlin of the well- part the second
every time i die-new junk
suicide silence-no time to bleed
four year strong-explains it all
artic monkeys-humbug
in to the moat-the campaign
the black dahlia murder-deflorate
morrisey-years of refusal
hatebreed for the lions
McKenneth
Macedon, NY
August 2005
NOV 24, 2009 09:25 AM