HELLO!
2009 is almost gone and we at Mad Decent have been working on a lot of new ideas for 2010. One of the more exciting developments is our website. We’ve redesigned it and added a lot of new features. The new site will launch sometime in January.
With all the new editions we had to hire an Editor to help sift thru the chaos and have someone to blame when the site is broken. His name is T. Cole Rachel but we just call him Cole. We bonded over horror movies, general music nerdery, and a love for collecting weird objects (i.e. ceramic cats!). Here’s his end of the year round up…it looks
absolutely nothing like ours; he also reads books (you know the printed type on paper), behaves like an old lady, and is really really into Stevie Nicks.
T. COLE RACHEL’S TOP 20 RECORDS OF 2009
“I say the same thing every year about this list, but here we go again….People seem to love this ridiculous list, but every year I tend to get the same two primary responses. My music nerd friends (aka music writers and assorted bloggists) tend to respond with things like “How dare you exclude that amazing folk record from the Netherlands!” and/or “How dare you not include more rap music! ” while my non-music nerd friends respond with something like “Once again, I’ve never heard of anything on your list.” As a semi-respectable music journalist, there are lots of records that probably should be on my list and aren’t, but in the end I just choose the records and songs that got the most face time around my home office (as evidenced by the number of plays in my iTunes). So, even though I could easily list about 100 records that I genuinely liked in 2009, here are the 20 albums that I listened to the
most.”
1 – Fever Ray – Fever Ray
2 – Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
3 – Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Paviliion
4 – The xx — xx
5 – Atlas Sound — Logos
6 – Real Estate – Real Estate
7 – Papercuts – You Can Have What you Want
8 – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
9 – Engineers – Three Fact Fader
10 – Cass McCombs — Catacombs
11 – The Breeders – Fate to Fatal EP
12 – Woods – Songs of Shame
13 – Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
14 – The Clientele – Bonfires on the Heath
15 – Washed Out – Life of Leisure EP
16 – M. Ward – Hold Time
17 – Bonnie “Prince” Billy — Beware
18 – Major Lazer – Gunz Don’t Kill People…Lazers Do
19 – Pictureplane – Dark Rift
20 – AA Bondy – When the Devil’s Loose
to read the rest of Cole’s Best of 2009 lists, go to www.tcolerachel.com
http://www.tcolerachel.com/
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