2009 favourites

Broken Horse releases:

AC Newman Get Guilty
Patrick Cleandenim Orange Moonbeam Floorshow
Andrew Morgan Please, Kid Remember
Liam Hayes and Plush Bright Penny

All of the above would have without doubt made my albums of the year list but have been excluded for impartiality's sake.

Favourite Albums

Jeremy Jay Slow Dance (K)
The Broken Family Band Please And Thank You (Cooking Vinyl)
Jeffrey Lewis Em Are I (Rough Trade)
Joe Pernice It Feels Good When I Stop (Ashmont)
Eddy Current Supression Ring Primary Colours (Melodic)
The Lemonheads Varshons (Cooking Vinyl)

also enjoyed

The Kingsbury Manx Acenseur Ouvert (Odessa)
Telekinesis Telekinesis! (Morr)
The Clean Mister Pop (Morr)
The Bats The Guity Office (Yesboyicecream)
Wilco Wilco (The Album) (Nonsuch)
The Clientele Bonfire On The Heath (Pointy)
Girls Girls (Fantasy Trashcan)
Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (Drag City)
Death For The Whole World To See (Drag City)
Richard Swift Atlantic Ocean (Secretly Canadian)
Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy (Matador)
Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career (4AD)

Favourite Shows

Jeremy Jay Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds.
Liam Hayes and Plush/Amor de Dias The King's Arms, Crouch End, London
AC Newman/Andrew Morgan The Luminaire, Kilburn, London
Wilco The Green Man Festival, Crickhowell, Wales.
Telekinesis/The Rosebuds Dulcimer, Chorlton, Manchester
The Sexual Objects The Kings Arms, Salford
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart Chorlton Irish Club, Manchester

Looking foward in 2010 to new music/albums by

Kevin Tihista, Andrew Morgan, New Pornographers, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Endless Boogie, Amor De Dias, East River Pipe, The Sexual Objects, Jeremy Jay, Joe Pernice, The Autumn Defense.

goin' back

The Nectarine No 9 Sea With Three Stars (Postcard) CD
Nick Drake Heaven In A Wild Flower (Island) CD
Pete Astor Hal's Eggs (Static Caravan) CD
Spiritualized Songs In A&E (Sanctuary) CD
The Byrds The Notorious Byrds Brothers (Edsel) LP
You Am I #4 Record (Roo Art) CD
Richard Davies Barbarians (Kindercore) CD
The Magnetic Fields I (Nonsuch) CD
Bernard & Edwyn Message For Jojo (Setanta) CD single
East Village Hotrod Hotel (Summershine) CD
Felt Gold Mine Trash (Cherry Red) LP
Michael Jackson Billie Jean (Epic) 7"

thought of you as my mountain top, thought of you as my peak

Fire Engines Big Gold Dream (Pop Aural) 7"
Bob Dylan S/T (Columbia) LP
You Am I Hourly Daily (Warner Bros) CD
Josef K Heaven Sent (Supreme International Editions) 12"
Hush Arbors Yankee Reality (Ecstatic Peace) CD
Daniel Johnston Is And Always Is (Feraltone) CD
Josef K The Only Fun In Town (Postcard) LP
Prefab Sprout Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone) (Kitchenware) 7"
The Jesus And Mary Chain Some Candy Talking (Blanci Y Negro) DBL 7"
Black Sabbath Greatest Hits (NEMS) LP
Danny And The Champions Of The World Streets Of Our Time (Loose) CD
Girls The Album (Fantasy Trashcan) CD
Destroyer The Music Lovers (Sub Pop) 7"
The Broken Family Band Love Your Man, Love Your Woman (Track & Field) 7"
John Fogerty The Old Man Down The Road (Warner Bros) 7"
Pigbag Dr Heckle And M Jive (Y) LP
Big Chief Locked Out (Revolution) 7"
Edsel Auctioneer Our New Skin (Decoy) 7"
The Wedding Present My Favourite Dress (Reception) 7"
The Sexual Objects Merrie Englan (A&B) 7"
The Sexual Objects Here Come The Rubber Cops (Music 70) 7"
Andy Votel Girl On A Go-Ped (Twisted Nerve) 7"
Headless Heroes The North Wind Blew South (Names) 7"
Paul Quinn & Edwyn Collins Pale Blue Eyes (Swamplands) 7"
Sammy Babe Come Down (Smells Like Records) 7"

thank you friends

China Crisis African White (Inevitable) 7"
Screaming Trees Nearly Lost You (Epic) 12"
Big Star Keep An Eye On The Sky (Rhino) 4 CD set
Joe Pernice It Feels So Good When I Stop (One Little Indian) CD
Urge Overkill Saturation (Geffen) LP
Richard Swift Atlantic Ocean (Secretl Canadian) CD
Telekinesis Telekinesis! (Morr) CD

the dark don't hide it

John Cale Paris 1919 (Reprise) CD
Patrick Cleandenim Orange Moonbeam Floorshow (Broken Horse) CD
Proud Simon Anchors Aweigh EP (Proud Simon) free download
Royal City Little Heart's Ease (Rough Trade) CD
Mark Robinson Origami and Urbanism (Teenbeat) CD
Endless Boogie Focus Level (No Quarter) DBL LP
East River Pipe She's A Real Good Time (Sarah) 7"
Radar Bros Auditrium (Chemikal Underground) CD
The Beatles Abbey Road (Parlophone) CD
Nikki Sudden & Dave Kusworth Jacobites (Secretly Canadian) CD
Magnolia Electric Co What Comes After The Blues (Secretly Canadian) CD
Loose Fur Born Again In The USA (Drag City) CD
Stephin Merritt Pieces of April (Nonesuch) CD

electricity comes from other planets

Taken from their excellent (and new to the UK) album Primary Colours on Melodic

The Bee Gees Best Of Bee Gees (RSO; compilation of early singles) LP
The Jesus & Mary Chain Darklands (Rhino) CD
The Clientele The Night A Forest Grew (Acuarela) CD EP
UB40 Food For Thought (Graduate) 7"
Eddy Current Supression Ring Primary Colours - S/T (Melodic) 2 CD
Beat Happening Angel Gone (K) 7"
The Moles Tendrils & Paracetomol (Seasick) 12" EP
Lissy Trullie Boy Boy/You Bleed Me (Make Mine) 7"
Jock Scot & Gareth Sager The Caledonian Blues (Invada) CD & DVD
Pell Mell Rhyming Guitars (SST) 12" EP
That Petrol Emotion V2 (Noise and Noise) 12" EP
Midnight Cowboy - Original Motion Picture Score (United Artists) LP
The Velvet Underground VU (Polydor) LP
The New Pornograhphers Myriad Harbour (Matador) 7"
The Tyde Strangers Again/Improper (Track & Field) 7"

i dream of strange inventions scratching at my window every night

Patrick Cleandenim Orange Moonbeam Floorshow (Broken Horse) CD
Wilco Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch) CD
Jeremy Jay Airwalker (K) CD EP
Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard Roll Buss Roll (Rough Trade) 7"
The Lemonheads I Just Can't Take It Anymore (Cooking Vinyl) 7"
Daniel Carlson Aviary Jackson (label tbc) CD
Andrew Morgan Please Kid, Remember (Broken Horse) CD