OK, here’s my Top 20 albums for 2009.
- Brother Ali – Us
- K’naan – Troubador
- BK-One – Rádio Do Canibal
- Ryan Leslie – Ryan Leslie
- Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
- Girls – Album
- Tanya Morgan – Brooklynati
- P.O.S. – Never Better
- Fever Ray – Fever Ray
- Fabolous – Loso’s Way
- Speech Debelle – Speech Therapy
- Mayer Hawthorne – A Strange Arrangement
- Mos Def – The Ecstatic
- Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D.
- The Felice Brothers – Yonder Is The Clock
- Monsters of Folk – Monsters of Folk
- St Vincent – Actor
- Black Lips – 200 Million Thousand
- Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
- Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Present: Dark Night Of The Soul
Haven’t put that much thought into it, I suppose it follows some sort of order, but there’s not a great deal of difference between them – I like them all.
Thought Never Better was weak compared the older one – Ipecec Neat (sic)… only tracks on find myself listening to again on that is Optimist and Goodbye and the title track. The Doomtree collective album is far better IMO, in fact Sims album is probably better than Never Better, though that may have been released in ’08.
Memory also fails on whether The Old Prince by Shad K dropped this year or last, if this year, I’d stick in the top ten. Every track on that album is something different.
The Old Prince was 2008, as was the Doomtree one (which I also like). I haven’t heard the Sims one yet, and in fact I haven’t heard the other P.O.S one you mention, but will check it out.