Students of Decay

2009 Favorites

I’m sure I’m missing a handful, but here are some records that stood out for me in 2009.

Heather Woods Broderick: “From the Ground” (Preservation)
Mountains: “Etching” (Thrill Jockey)
Celer: “Close Proximity and the Unhindered Care-all” (SRA)
Andrew Chalk: “The Cable House” (Faraway Press)
Richard Skelton: “Landings” (Type)
Solo Andata: “Solo Andata” (12k)
Jim O’Rourke: “The Visitor” (Drag City)
Bryter Layter: “Imprinted Season” (Arbor)
Rameses III: “I Could Not Love You More” (Type)
Barn Owl: “The Conjurer” (Root Strata)
Woods: “Songs of Shame” (Woodsist)
Monolake: “Silence” (Imbalance Computer Music)
Grizzly Bear: “Veckatimest” (Warp)
Peter Wright: “An Angel Fell Where the Kestrels Hover” (Spekk)
Billy Gomberg: “Comme” (mOAR)
Gareth Dickson: “Collected Recordings” (Drifting Falling)
Pillowdiver: “Sleeping Pills” (12k)
Alva Noto: “Xerrox Vol. 2″ (Raster-Noton)
Concern: “Truth and Distance” (Digitalis)
Black to Comm: “Alphabet 1968″ (Type)
Washed Out: “High Times” (Mirror Universe Tapes)
Chihei Hatakeyama: “August” (Under the Spire)
Aquarelle: “Slow Circles” (rest + noise)
Richard Youngs: “Under Stellar Stream” (Jagjaguwar)
Le Lendamain: “Fires” (Home Normal)
Tiny Vipers: “Life on Earth” (Sub Pop)
Yui Onodera and the Beautiful Schizophonic:”Radiance” (Basses Frequencies)
Corey Fuller: “Seas Between” (Dragon’s Eye Recordings)
Chubby Wolf: “L’Histoire” (Gears of Sand)
Meso Meso: “Spoon” (Yacca)
Darwinsbitch: “Ore” (Digitalis)