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Top 5 Albums of 2009
Friday, 11th December 2009 12:00AM2009 has been a great year for music but if you've been out of the musical loop of late and are looking for some good music to enjoy your summer holidays to - why not check out our Top 5 Albums of 2009 feature which includes a range of music-related people's favourite albums of year.
With the good there is always the bad - not all the releases we sent out for review came back with a favourable response from our contributors - here are some of our lowest rated reviews of the year:
Manic Street Preachers - "Journal For Plague Lovers" - 1/10
Omar Rodriguez Lopez - "Old Money" - 3/10
Micachu and the Shapes - "Jewellery" - 4/10
Basement Jaxx - "Scars" - 5.5/10
And while we're at it - here are 5 of our highest rated reviews of the year:
Sonic Youth - "The Eternal" - 9.2/10
Blank Dogs - "Under and Under" - 9.2/10
Sharpie Crows - "Greed" - 9.1/10
Various - "Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox" - 9/10
Vivian Girls - "Everything Goes Wrong" - 9/10
What were your favourite or worst releases of 2009?
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UGLY AMBITION - The Aesthetics
grizzly bear veckatimest
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Kiss - Sonic boom
Placebo - Battle For the sun
Muse - The resistance
Paramore - Brand new Eyes
piised jeans-king of jeans
horrors-primary colours
yacht-see mystery lights
the xx- xx
juan maclean- the future will come
also f**k buttons, fever ray, health, a place to bury strangers,memory tapes and well....lots.
Cum Guzzling Sluts "Fisting Your Neigbour"
Invaders Must Die - The Prodigy
Farm - Dinosaur Jr
It's Blitz - Yeah yeah yeah's
Alice by the Moon - The Checks
and number 6 - Them Crooked Vultures
1. Nana Grizol - Ruth
2. Animal Collective - MMP
3. A Brief History of Love - Big Pink
4. Dan Deacon - Bromst
5. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Honorable mentions to Mastodon, Neon Indian, Antlers, Colour, Cymbals Eat Guitars and Church of Misery.
The Horrors - Primary Colours
The XX - XX
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Silversun Pickups - Swoon