It’s now July of 2009, and it will help me later in December if I start thinking now about my favorite records of the first half of the year. Here’s what I just came up with:
- Bitte Orca, Dirty Projectors
- Bromst, Dan Deacon
- My Maudlin Career, Camera Obscura
- Why There Are Mountains, Cymbals Eat Guitars
- Merriweather Post Pavillion, Animal Collective
- Veckatimest, Grizzly Bear
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
- Riceboy Sleeps, Riceboy Sleeps
- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Phoenix
- (Three-Way Tie of Swan Lakers) Skin of Evil, Blackout Beach / Enemy Mine, Swan Lake / Dragonslayer, Sunset Rubdown
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Honorable Mention:
- Get Guilty, A.C. Newman
- Crying Light, Antony & The Johnsons
- Vignetting the Compost, Bibio
