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Taking A Look Back At 2009

It impossible to listen to every album that gets released during 2009 in the many indie genres and sub-genres so it's very easy to pass by many albums that might have deserved a chance at...

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Most Grievous of Errors

I have so many release dates running through my head during the year that sometimes they get mixed up and it doesn't help to try and keep track of both US and UK dates. Normally...

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There went the lists

We had a bit more year-end stuff planned for you, but our department was recently cut from seven to five, and take a wild guess who got to pick up the slack? So here...

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Artist of the decade, 2000-2009

She doesn't remember it this way, but I do. This would have been late 2004 or early 2005. I was delirious with fever and half-sleeping, half-listening to her sing our infant son to...

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"we really wanted to put dre's 2001 on here but realised it came out in 1999. in 2019 people will want to put this on these lists but will realise it came out in 2009. i think i just compared this to 2001. that's fine, i'm sticking with it."

She doesn't remember it this way, but I do. This would have been late 2004 or early 2005. I was delirious with fever and half-sleeping, half-listening to her sing our infant son to...

Christmas in July in Iceland

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What the hell? Iceland rocks! There is no use trying to dispute this. It is an irrevocable law of nature. (UPDATE this is a Sigur Ros side project. This just might take the 2009 Slipknot Award for We Like the Side Project Better.)

Exhibit Q, Riceboy Sleeps. And speaking of nature:

That was “All The Big Trees,” from their self-titled LP, out today. (My wife is going to develop an unhealthy fixation for this video, BTW.) This next track is “Daniell In The Sea.”

This is our first entry into the tMiM Hatchery column, and it’s a doosie. This one goes straight to the Best of 2009 nominee list. It does not pass Go. It does not collect $200.

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