with but a few hours left...

...my 30 favorite songs of 2009:

30. m. ward - never had nobody like you (hold time)

29. bishop allen - the ancient commonsense of things (grrr...)
28. the thermals - i let it go (now we can see)

27. handsome furs - all we want, baby, is everything (face control)

26. metric - sick muse (fantasies)

25. the avett brothers - head full of doubt, road full of promise (i and love and you)

24. the antlers - bear (hospice)

23. bowerbirds - teeth (upper air)

22. wilco - you and i (wilco the album)

21. princeton - show some love, when your man gets home (cocoon of love)

20. phoenix - lizstomania (wolfgang amadeus phoenix)

19. islands - vapours (vapours)

18. n.a.s.a. - gifted (feat. kanye west, santigold & lykke li) (the spirit of apollo)

17. david byrne & dirty projectors - knotty pine (dark was the night)

16. noah and the whale - stranger (the first days of spring)

15. camera obscura - honey in the sun (my maudlin career)

14. vetiver - everyday (tight knit)

13. deer tick - smith hill (born on flag day)

12. andrew bird - effigy (noble beast)

11. girls - lust for life (album)

10. grizzly bear - two weeks (veckatimest)

9. foreign born - winter games (person to person)

8. throw me the statue - waving at the shore (creaturesque)
7. akron/family - river (set 'em wild, set 'em free)
6. coconut records - any fun (davy)
5. matt & kim - daylight (grand)

4. a.a. bondy - i can see the pines are dancing (when the devil's loose)
3. st. vincent & the national - sleep all summer (score! 20 years of merge records)
2. edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros - home (up from below)
1. the pains of being pure at heart - young adult friction (s/t)

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