why was I late for my meeting today? because it was 62 degrees outside and I was here:

february

anna ternheim "leaving on a mayday" (january)

aufgang s/t (2009)

class actress "journal of ardency" ep

eluvium "similes"

field music "measure"

* fredrik "trilogi"

* hot chip "one life stand"

jack rose "luck in the valley"

local natives "gorilla manor"

moonface "dreamland ep: marimba and shit-drums" (january)

olafur arnalds "found songs" (2009)

* phantogram "eyelid movies"

shearwater "the golden archipelago"

stricken city "songs about people I know" (2009)

toro y moi "causers of this"

quasi "american gong"

january

barton carroll "together you and I"
beach house "teen dream"
*charlotte gainsbourg (beck) "irm"
*four tet "there is love in you"
jaga jazzist "one-armed bandit"
laarks "an exaltation of laarks"
laura veirs "july flame"
oh no ono "eggs"
owen pallett "heartland"
robin guthrie "carousel"
scout niblett "the calcination of scout niblett"
* spoon "transference"

disappointing: the notwist and the magnetic fields

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islands near bocas del toro

bocas del toro

cathedral tower ruins and casco viejo

panama city

favorites of 2009

1. animal collective "merriweather post pavilion"

2. the xx s/t

3. vijay iyer trio "historicity"

4. the flaming lips "embryonic"

5. the yeah yeah yeahs "its blitz!"

6. bell orchestre "as seen through windows"

7. metric "fantasies"

8. dan deacon "bromst"

9. phoenix "wolfgang amadeus phoenix"

10. bill callahan "sometimes I wish we were an eagle"

11. grizzly bear "veckatimest"

12. lightning dust "infinite light"

13. beirut "march of the zapotec/holland" ep

14. bear in heaven "beast rest forth mouth"

15. hockey "mind chaos"

16. sunset rubdown "dragonslayer"

17. the antlers "hospice"

18. balmorhea "all is wild, all is silent"

19. au revoir simone "still night, still light"

20. neko case "middle cyclone"

21. jim o'rourke "the visitor"

22. antony and the johnsons "the crying light"

23. hauschka "snowflakes and car wrecks"

24. the pains of being pure at heart "higher than the stars" ep

25. atlas sound "logos"

best compilation: dark was the night

best covers: taken by trees covering "my girls" by animal collective, and the books covering "cello song" by nick drake

also noteworthy: destroyer "bay of pigs" ep. but it only had two songs on it, so I didn't really think it was fair to put on the list of albums and longer eps.