afterstasis reposts his favorite recordings of 2009.

[afterstasis]

Apparently this list, originally posted earlier this year, is lost to the Album Reviews void.


TOP 250 LP'S OF 2009

1. cold cave - love comes close (darkwave/synth pop)
2. panopticon - collapse (black metal)
3. the mountain goats - the life of the world to come (indie folk)
4. amesoeurs - self titled (post-punk)
5. sawhorse - cover it with asphalt (post-rock)
6. pensees nocturnes - vacuum (black metal)
7. andrew wk - 55 cadillac (classical)
8. former ghosts - fleurs (post-punk)
9. sore eros - second chants (psych)
10. dinosaur jr - farm (alt rock)
11. austere - to lay like old ashes (black metal)
12. sunn 0))) - monoliths and dimensions (drone metal)
13. neon indian - psychic chasms (synth/psych-pop)
14. the pains of being pure at heart - self titled (indie pop)
15. hunx and his punx - gay singles (pop punk)
16. lightning bolt - earthly delights (noise rock)
17. richard youngs - beyond the valley of ultrahits (experimental pop)
18. vic chesnutt - at the cut (dark folk/slowcore)
19. circle of ouroborus - tree of knowledge (black metal)
20. factums - flowers (post-punk/art rock)
21. liturgy - renihilation (black metal)
22. pyramids with nadja - self titled (shoegaze/drone)
23. jeremy jay - slow dance (indie pop)
24. skagos - ast (black metal)
25. to kill a petty bourgeoisie - marlone (dream pop)
26. greymachine - disconnected (industrial/post-metal)
27. silver pines - forces (dream pop)
28. peste noire - ballade ****re lo anemi francor (black metal)
29. tyondai braxton - central market (avant-classical)
30. silversun pickups - swoon (alt rock)
31. ovens - self titled (power pop)
32. wolves in the throne room - black cascade (black metal)
33. crocodiles - summer of hate (shoegaze/post-punk)
34. balmorhea - all is wild, all is silent (post-rock)
35. witch hunt - burning bridges to nowhere (crust punk)
36. portal - swarth (death metal)
37. john vanderslice - romanian names (indie pop)
38. irepress - sol eye sea i (post-metal)
39. ganglians - monster head room (psych)
40. dreams of the drowned - thanatotropic principle (black metal)
41. arroyo - individuum & massen (post-rock)
42. blut aus nord - memoria vetusta II (black metal)
43. oriin - all things are numbers (post-rock)
44. planning for burial - leaving (shoegaze/post-metal)
45. the black heart procession - six (indie rock)
46. horrific - your worst nightmare (death metal)
47. jeffrey lewis & the junkyard - em are i (folk)
48. sui caedere - threne (black metal)
49. pianos become the teeth - old pride (screamo)
50. do make say think - the other truths (post-rock)
51. aspen woods - new world disorder (shoegaze)
52. narrows - new distances (post-hardcore)
53. kreng - l'autopsie phenomenale de dieu (dark ambient)
54. solstafir - kold (progressive/black metal)
55. reflections of internal rain - last flood (crust punk/screamo)
56. Æthenor - faking gold and murder (drone)
57. mi ami - watersports (noise rock/post-punk)
58. the ruins of beverast - foulest semen of a sheltered elite (black metal)
59. danny norbury - light in august (classical)
60. miserere luminis - self titled (black metal)
61. the field - yesterday and today (minimal techno)
62. csejthe - la mort du prince noir (black metal)
63. why? - eskimo snow (indie pop)
64. astra - the weirding (prog rock)
65. simon joyner - out into the snow (folk)
66. desire - II (disco)
67. black math horseman - wyllt (doom metal/psych rock)
68. arctic plateau - on a sad sunny day (shoegaze/post-rock)
69. zola jesus - the spoils (ambient/goth)
70. fragment. - self titled (post-metal)
71. six organs of admittance - luminous night (psych folk)
72. celeste - misanthrope(s) (screamo)
73. prurient - rose pillar (noise/dark ambient)
74. brown jenkins - death obsession (black metal)
75. girls - album (indie rock)
76. pocahaunted - passage (psych)
77. kylesa - static tensions (sludge)
78. gentle friendly - ride slow (noise-pop)
79. toma - as we fall into static our hearts sing (shoegaze/post-rock)
80. eat skull - wild and inside (noise-pop)
81. big business - mind the drift (sludge)
82. tiny vipers - life on earth (dark folk)
83. cobalt - gin (black metal)
84. king kong ding dong - youth culture index (psych/noise-pop)
85. oranssi pazuzu - muukalainen puhuu (black metal/space rock)
86. gary war - horribles parade (psych)
87. megasus - self titled (sludge)
88. boy in static - candy cigarette (synth pop)
89. a second of june - the inside laws (shoegaze/post-punk)
90. major lazer - guns don't kill people, lazers do (dancehall)
91. ye olde maids - god blesses us, mother dresses us (post-punk)
92. cloaks - versus grain (dubstep)
93. towers - full circle (post-hardcore)
94. locrian - drenched lands (black metal)
95. mountainhood - goldeness being part 1 in the multi-visorial dream saga called the light (psych folk)
96. funebrarum - the sleep of morbid dreams (death metal)
97. l'acephale - stahlhartes gehause (black metal)
98. blueneck - the fallen host (post-rock)
99. current 93 - aleph at hallucinatory mountain (neofolk/psych rock)
100. fall of efrafa - inle (post-metal/crust)
101. nadja - when i see the sun it always shines on tv (drone metal)
102. jj - n°2 (pop)
103. sleep whale - houseboat (post-rock)
104. jason crumer - walk with me (industrial/noise)
105. yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz! (synth pop/post-punk)
106. these are powers - all aboard future (noise rock)
107. camera obscura - my maudlin career (indie pop)
108. mount eerie - wind's poem (indie folk/black metal)
109. wolf eyes - always wrong (noise/industrial)
110. magrugergrind - self titled (grindcore)
111. crime in choir - gift givers (prog/post-rock)
112. tombs - winter hours (post-metal)
113. lou barlow - goodnight unknown (indie folk)
114. alpinist - minus mensch (crust punk)
115. jackie-o motherf*cker - ballads of the revolution (psych)
116. blank dogs - under and under (post-punk)
117. death - ...for the whole world to see (proto-punk)
118. the devil's blood - the time of no time evermore (psych/hard rock)
119. gnaw - this face (noise)
120. telepathe - dance mother (electro pop)
121. nomo - invisible cities (funk)
122. the chasm - farseeing the paranormal abysm (death metal)
123. nudge - as good as gone (ambient/electronic pop)
124. the skygreen leopards - gorgeous johnny (folk-pop)
125. last days - the safety of the north (ambient/post-rock)
126. caspian - tertia (post-rock)
127. njiqahdda - yrg alms (black metal/psych)
128. master musicians of bukkake - totem one (experimental rock/psych)
129. the hidden cameras - origin: orphan (indie pop)
130. the third memory - self titled (screamo)
131. a shoreline dream - recollections of memory (shoegaze/post-rock)
132. iskra - bureval (crust punk/black metal)
133. the great disappointment - self titled (emo)
134. dam-funk - toeachizown (funk)
135. isaïah - ils consomment, prient et tuent mais ne pensent pas (screamo)
136. junius - the martrydom of a catastrophist (post-rock)
137. the entrance band - self titled (psych rock)
138. joan of arc - flowers (indie/post-rock)
139. altar of plagues - white tomb (black metal)
140. gui boratto - take my breath away (minimal techno)
141. thee oh sees - help (garage rock)
142. shogun kunitoki - vinonaamakasio (electro/krautrock)
143. fen - the malediction fields (black metal)
144. illuminations - see-saw (alt-country/psych rock)
145. daniel land and the modern painters - love songs for the chemical generation (shoegaze)
146. sonic youth - the eternal (alt rock)
147. the vandelles - del black aloha (garage/noise rock)
148. animal collective - merriweather post pavilion (psychedelic pop)
149. the twilight sad - forget the night ahead (indie rock/shoegaze)
150. from monument to masses - on little known frequencies (post-rock)
151. torngat - la petite nicole (jazz/post-rock)
152. krallice - dimensional bleedthrough (black metal)
153. chain and the gang - down with liberty... up with chains! (garage rock/soul)
154. tim hecker - an imaginary country (electronic ambient)
155. cave - psychic summer (psych rock)
156. katharsis - fourth reich (black metal)
157. magma - emehntehtt-re (zeuhl)
158. the dead sea - self titled (post-rock)
159. neko case - middle cyclone (alt-country/indie pop)
160. the assemble head in sunburst sound - when sweet sleep returned (psych rock)
161. flaming lips - embryonic (alt/psych rock)
162. empire! empire! (i was a lonely estate) - what it takes to move forward (indie-emo)
163. malcolm middleton - waxing gibbous (indie rock)
164. constants - the foundation, the machine, the ascension (prog-metal)
165. beak> - self titled (krautrock)
166. a sunny day in glasgow - ashes grammar (shoegaze)
167. if these trees could talk - above the earth, below the sky (post-rock)
168. teitanblood - seven chalices (black/death metal)
169. clues - self titled (indie rock)
170. funeral mist - maranatha (black metal)
171. epitimia - to the non-existing shades (black metal)
172. pedestrian deposit - austere (noise)
173. horace andy & alpha - two phazed people (dub)
174. the kilimanjaro darkjazz ensemble - here be dragons (jazz/dark ambient)
175. valleys - sometimes water kills people (indie/psych folk)
176. caethua - the long afternoon of earth (psych folk)
177. the thing - bag it! (free jazz)
178. wolf - ravenous (heavy metal)
179. the fresh & onlys - bomb wombs (psych pop)
180. miike snow - self titled (electronic pop)
181. gathiens - nesh (post-rock)
182. ilyas ahmed - goner (psych folk)
183. tonstartssbandht - an when (noise-pop)
184. velvet cacoon - p aa opal poere pr. 33 (black metal)
185. wavves - wavvves (noise-pop)
186. asobi seksu - hush (dream pop)
187. i shalt become - the pendle witch trials (black metal)
188. drowning the light - a pact with madness (black metal)
189. built to spill - there is no enemy (indie rock)
190. summer cats - songs for tuesdays (indie pop)
191. wand - hard knox (country/folk)
192. yob - the great cessation (doom metal)
193. bad lieutenant - never cry another tear (electronic pop)
194. skeletonwitch - breathing the fire (thrash metal)
195. natural snow buildings - shadow kingdom (drone/psych folk)
196. clark - totems flare (IDM)
197. afterlives - a ticking clock i couldn't stop (shoegaze/ambient)
198. revolting - dreadful pleasures (death metal)
199. yo la tengo - popular songs (indie rock)
200. drudkh - microcosmos (black metal)
201. polvo - in prisms (indie/math rock)
202. mouse on the keys - an anxious object (jazz)
203. grave miasma - exalted emanation (death metal)
204. emeralds - what happened (ambient electronic/drone)
205. ducktails - landscapes (psych pop)
206. kidcrash - snacks (screamo)
207. clubroot - self titled (dubstep)
208. john luther adams - the place we began (classical)
209. infernal stronghold - godless noise (black metal)
210. oblisk - weather patterns (shoegaze)
211. cheer-accident - fear draws misfortune (avant-prog)
212. alexander turnquist - as the twilight crane dreams in color (instrumental folk)
213. casiotone for the painfully alone - vs. children (electronic pop)
214. zelienople - give it up (ambient/psych-folk)
215. easy star all-stars - easy star's lonely hearts dub band (reggae/dub)
216. rameses III - i could not love you more (ambient/drone)
217. astral luminous - lunaric tide (black metal)
218. james blackshaw - the glass bead game (instrumental folk)
219. the king khan & bbq show - invisible girl (garage rock)
220. a place to bury strangers - exploding head (post-punk/noise-rock)
221. vee dee - public mental health system (punk/psych-rock)
222. led bib - sensible shoes (free jazz)
223. dirty projectors - bitte orca (indie/art rock)
224. elegi - varde (dark ambient/classical)
225. holy sons - criminal's return (psychedelic rock)
226. zu - carboniferous (avant-rock)
227. skullflower - malediction (noise/drone)
228. pajo - scream with me (folk)
229. beherit - engram (black metal)
230. petracovich - crepusculo (indie pop)
231. teeth of the sea - orphaned by the ocean (post-rock/psychedelic rock)
232. sun araw - heavy deeds (psych)
233. nokturnal mortum - the voice of steel (black/folk metal)
234. wrnlrd - myrmidon (black noise)
235. marissa nadler - little hells (folk)
236. canis dirus - a somber wind from a distant shore (black metal)
237. maribel - aesthetics (shoegaze)
238. diamatregon - crossroad (black metal)
239. a storm of light - forgive us our trespasses (post-metal)
240. clutchy hopkins - music is my medicine (instrumental hip-hop)
241. atlas sound - logos (psych/dream pop)
242. micachu - jewellery (indie/electro pop)
243. cheval sombre - self titled (indie/psych)
244. moss - tombs of the blind drugged (doom metal)
245. digital leather - warm brother (synth punk)
246. headdress - lunes (drone/psych)
247. vetiver - tight knit (folk)
248. fly girlz - da brats from da ville (hip-hop)
249. gaza - he is never coming back (metalcore)
250. amber asylum - bitter river (neoclassical/neofolk)

[afterstasis]

HONORABLE MENTIONS

school of emotional engineering - self titled
manual zombie - autumn
purple mercy - self-titled
horseback - the invisible mountain
the sunday reeds - drowning in history
gnaw their tongues - all the dread magnificence of perversity
reigns - house on the causeway
lewd acts - black eye blues
harvestman - in a dark tongue
the balconies - self titled
doomriders - darkness come alive
message to bears - departures
keef baker - pen fifteen
deafest - eroding peaks
yagya - rigning
louis sclavis - lost on the way
subway - subway II
pastels & tenniscoats - two sunsets
mathias grassow - transpersonal
little girls - concepts
rakkaus - jokainen päivä on taistelua
ooioo - armonico hewa
piano magic - ovations
wooden veil - self titled
mammoth grinder - extinction of humanity
variant - the setting sun
the super vacations - self-titled
jay reatard - watch me fall
bloody panda - summon
ethere - self titled
vaka - kappa delta phi
intrusion - the seduction of silence
cindytalk - the crackle of my soul
rusted shut - dead
urfaust - einsiedler
julian lynch - orange you glad
celer - capri
kryptic minds - one of us
eternal tapestry - the invisible landscape
dominic - nord
(v.e.g.a.) - far from you
wet hair - dream
brock van wey - white clouds drift on and on
red fang - self titled
sons of otis - exiled
oneohtrix point never - zones without people
2562 - unbalance
razor of occam - homage to martyrs
mountains - choral
telefon tel aviv - immolate yourself
arve henriksen - cartography
coalesce - ox
the big pink - a brief history of love
intelligence - fake surfers
jabladav - atta vinter
municipal waste - massive aggressive
ecovillage - phoenix asteroid
aun - motorsleep
wolok - caput mortuum
blues control - local flavor
cluster - qua
hercules and love affair - self titled
kurt vile - childish prodigy
soror dolorosa - severance
the soundcarriers - harmonium
olafur arnalds - found songs
brotzmann/kondo/pupillo/nilssen-love - hairy bones
kaospilot - shadows
aluk todolo - finsternis
subarachnoid space - eight bells
rusted shut - dead
gregor samsa - over air
scale the summit - carving desert canyons
chord - flora
peter broderick - music for falling from trees
goreaphobia - mortal repulsion
sax ruins - yawiquo
conrad schnitzler - silver
mulatu astatke & the heliocentrics - inspiration information
ride for revenge - wisdom of the few


AWESOME EP's OF 2009

comadre - a wolf ticket
vordr - self titled
blessure grave - learn to love the rope
spectrum - war sucks
ithdabquth qliphoth - funeral spirit of holy, holy and holy tranceformation
no age - losing feeling
down to agony - el sueno de vernos caer
the bitters - wooden glove
caina - self titled
final thoughts - dreams of self defeat
cadaver yelleth at amber tower - code: algeria
jesu - opiate sun
francis harold & the holograms - mirror of fear
washed out - high times
ash pool - saturn's slave
memory cassette - call & response
egonoir - a new philosophical thunder
cloud nothings - turning on
lifelover - dekadens
vanessa van basten - psygnosis
errata - self titled
invasion - the master alchemist
moon duo - killing time
zomby - one foot ahead of the other
sore eyelids - self titled
deerhunter - rainwater cassette exchange
the timebombs - i belong in hell
nekrasov - tramp and void
black pus - down down da' drain
julianna barwick - florine
skeletor - self titled
washed out - life of leisure
bokanovsky - we stumble
coming up for air - protagonauts
sleepy eyes of death - dark signals

[darkwinterbeast8]

About time a band named themselves "Skeletor"

[Dante1847]

good to see this again. reminds me that I still have yet to check out 6. need to get on that

[Rocket2Russia]

Loving the minimalist design.

In all seriousness, thanks for the re-post. This is great!

[a21schizoidman]

thanks 'stasis

[MrFruitLord]

I think I'm just gonna have to go through this by genre, there's so much stuff I didn't notice the first 20 times I read this list... UP FIRST: POST ROCK.

[Ultimatum]

Holy ****, there were honorable mentions too?

Man, this is a behemoth of a list.

[LegendofRock3021]

Thanks for posting this list again, incredible to say the least.