favorite songs of 2009

really, really good songs from 2009:


Air Waves, "Shine On" (myspace)


Dirty Projectors, "Stillness Is The Move" (youtube) (solange knowles cover version)


Phoenix, "Lisztomania" (youtube)


Der Nino aus Wien, "Es geht immer ums Vollenden" (youtube) / "Nicht jeder Spiegel ist gleich"


John Houx, "Born in 1984" (youtube) / "Apple On A Table, Green" (youtube)


Hazel Rickard, "Ives" (website)


Clint Michigan, "Hawthorne to Hennepin" (myspace)

Bat For Lashes, "Daniel" (youtube)
Boo Hoo, "Pete & Pete"
Bowerbids, "Northern Lights" (youtube)
Camera Obscura, "James" (youtube)
The Cay, "Cachalot"
D. Cooper, "So Low" / "In the Morning After" (youtube)
Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, Jason Lytle, "Everytime I'm With You" (youtube)
Daniel, Fred & Julie, "Runner"
The Debutante Hour, "Galax"
Demons' Claws, "Trip To A Clinic"
Dinosaur Jr., "Over It" (youtube)
Emily Jane White, "Victorian America" (youtube)
Everybody Knows/Daniel Bernstein, "Tag Your Hollow"
Falk & die Wiese, "Appointments" / "People"
Forest City Lovers, "Orphans" (youtube)
Generationals, "When They Fight, They Fight" (youtube)
Great Lake Swimmers, "Pulling On A Line" (youtube)
Hurray for the Riff Raff, "A Slow Walk" (Daytrotter Session)
Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard, "It's Not Impossible"
Jim White, "Jailbird" (youtube)
Karl Blau, "That's The Breaks" / "It's The Stars"
Kevin Blechdom, "Lazy"
LAKE, "Don't Give Up" (youtube)
Laura Gibson, "Spirited" (youtube)
Locas in Love, "Bushwick"(youtube)
Martha Rose, "In The End" (myspace)
Michael Hurley, "Wildegeeses"
MoreEats, "Macht" / "Momo Le Chat" (myspace)
Moritz Krämer, "90 Minuten" (myspace)
The Mountain Goats, "Genesis 3:23"
Nneka, "Heartbeat" (youtube)
New Boyz, "You're A Jerk" (youtube)
Patrick Wolf, "Damaris"
Plies, "Can't Cry"
Sarsaparilla, "Hunt" / "Earthling" (myspace)
Sharon van Etten, "Much More Than That"
Shotgun Jimmie, "Bedhead" (myspace)
Simone White, "Bunny In A Bunny Suit" (youtube)
Stahlberger, "Rägebogesiedlig" (youtube)
The Thermals, "Now We Can See" (youtube)
Toby Goodshank, "Untitled #1"
tUnE-yArDs, "Little Tiger"
Vic Chesnutt, "Flirted With You All My Life" (youtube)
Woods, "Rain On" (youtube)