Staff Top Tens

DAVE

Fresh And Only’s – Grey Eyed Girls
Depeche Mode – Sounds Of The Universe
Warp 20th Anniversary Compilations
Fever Ray – S/T
Wax Mannequin – Saxon
Jello Biafra – The Audacity Of Hype
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Real Estate – S/T LP
Hallelujah The Hills - Colonial Drones
Let’s Wrestle – In The Court Of The Wrestle Lets

LASSE

In no particular order

Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Future of the left - Travels with myself and another
Fennesz/Sparklehorse - In the Fishtank 15
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - White Lunar
Charles Spearin - The Happiness Project
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
V/A - Can you dig it? The Music and Politics of Black Action Films 1968 - 75
Orchestre Poly Rhythmo de Cotonou - Vol. 2
Bell Orchestre - As seen through windows
Yacht - See Mystery Lights

Guilty Pleasure: Röyksopp - Junior

FORD

From the ten acknowledged regions of the Earth…

Blighty: MICACHU Jewellery / FUTURE OF THE LEFT Travels With Myself And Another

Old Europe: NURIT STARK & CEDRIC PESCIA Music For Violin & Piano by Busoni and Enescu / ZU Carbiniferous

The Cradle of Humanity: STAFF BENDA BILILI Tres Tres Fort / ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO DE COTONOU Echos Hypnotiques

Trawnna: CHARLES SPEARIN The Happiness Project / GENTLEMAN REG Jet Black

Noo Yawk: ELLIOTT CARTER A Nonesuch Retrospective / ALICE DONUT Ten Glorious Animals

Boston: MISSION OF BURMA The Sound The Speed The Light / HALLELUJAH THE HILLS Colonial Drones

Otherwise Unaffiliated EST: WAX MANNEQUIN Saxon / HANDSOME FURS Face Control

The West: CORB LUND Losin’ Lately Gambler / BUSDRIVER Jhelli Beam

The South: MOUNTAIN GOATS The Life Of The World To Come / V/A Panama! 2

Antipodes: OS MUTANTES Haih Or Amortecedor / DRONES Havilah

NEN

Here they are in no particular order!

1. Mastadon - Crack the Sky
2. You Say Party… - xxxx
3. Reverberators - El Burro
4. King Khan - Invisible Girl
5. Dan Managan - Nice, Nice, Very Nice
6. Pointed Sticks - 3 Lefts do Make a Right
7. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - White Lunar
8. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
9. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
10. Kent McAlister & The Iron Choir - How I’ll Remain

Heavy on the Local because, dammit, they’re good! We’re lucky to live in van-town and have such great bands around us! don’t get me all misty eyed or i’ll punch ya!

ELLIS

Ellis’s Top Eleven of 2009||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion LP/ Fall Be Kind EP
Apollo Ghosts - Hastings Sunrise Lp/ Forgotten triangle CDEP
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
White Rainbow - New Clouds
Shearing Pinx - Weaponry LP
Makeout Videotape - HEAT WAVE! EP (out of print)
Broadcast & the Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults
Girls - s/t
St Vincent - Actor
YACHT – See Mystery Lights
King Khan & the BBQ Show – Invisible Girl

Fave Lp reissue: Destroyer - City of Daughters/Thief 2LP
Fave 7” inch: B- Lines - Burnt CDs