If you missed any of last year’s highlights, here’s a pleasurable way to swot up. Evidently still blessed with the Christmas spirit, producer Brian Curtis, aka Pandemonium Jones, has put together Splendid Moments 2009, a breathless mixtape of some of the 12 months’ best new sounds. It’s available on zSHARE, either as a one long MP3 to download or stream, or a zip with breaks, and you’re looking at just under 100MB and 70 lovely minutes. The track listing’s below, after this funny little 2009 summary video/tune:
Splendid Moments 2009
Atlas Sound – Shelia
Lotus Plaza – A Threaded Needle
Bear In Heaven – You Do You
Flaming Lips – Silver Trembling Hands
Neon Indian – Mind, Drips
Washed Out – Feel It All Around
Junior Boys – Parallel Lines
Animal Collective – My Girls
Delorean – Seasun
Memory Tapes – The Green Knight
Small Black – Despicable Dogs
Best Coast – Sun Was High (So Was I)
Boris – Black Original
Wavves – Vermin
A Sunny Day In Glasgow – Evil, With Evil, Against Evil
Volcano Choir – Still
Lucky Dragons – We Made Our Own Government
Banjo Or Freakout – Breath Out
Beach House – Norway
Mt. Eerie – Between Two Mysteries
Fourtet And Burial – Moth
Dan Deacon – Wet Wings
Kurt Vile – Beach On The Moon
Cool I’ll come back for that. We’ll all need something new to listen to while we’re snowed in eating the last can of kidney at the back of the cupboard. The Word giant Spotify playlist of the noughties will keep you going too.
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