Talking Sweet About Nothing

Dear friends and the internet at large,

We've seen your year-in-review posts. We've listened to your best-of lists, and we have to respectfully disagree. We offer this rebuttal as evidence to music from 2009 that you may have overlooked or under-appreciated. The following file is a compilation of 5 songs that we think represents the best music released last year. We present to you, Exhibit Awesome:

Laroux - Bulletproof
Faunts - Feel.Love.Thinking.Of.
Tegan & Sara - Hell
Bat For Lashes - Daniel
They Might Be Giants - Roy G. Biv

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I think one thing that speaks to the excellence of these choices is that they all appear on solid albums. Each artist took care to craft a full length collection. Each album a sum greater than individual parts, an art form that has sadly taken the back seat to single-song listens. Even the "funny" album (Here Comes Science) is brilliant on so many levels, not only is it fun to listen to, it's inspiring, making it so much more than just a novelty record for kids.

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