Monday Night Martin
Once upon a time I lugged my PC to The Star on the first Monday of each month to play lovingly created playlists as loudly as I could get away with accompanied by swirling visuals generated by WinAmp’s MilkDrop plugin projected on to a screen. This had something of a cult following for a few years.
#22: 2009 Retrospective (February 2010)
1
Emeralds
“Alive in the Sea of Information”
What Happened, 2009
2
Lindstrom and Prins Thomas
“Cisco”
II, 2009
3
St. Vincent
“Actor Out of Work”
Actor, 2009
4
The Bird and the Bee
“Diamond Dave”
Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future, 2009
5
Lily Allen
“The Fear”
It's Not Me It's You, 2009
6
Little Boots
“Meddle”
Hands, 2009
7
Anya Marina
“Two Left Feet”
Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II, 2009
8
Neko Case
“This Tornado Loves You”
Middle Cyclone, 2009
9
The Phantom Band
“The Howling”
Checkmate Savage, 2009
10
Bibio
“Abrasion”
Ambivalence Avenue, 2009
11
Megafaun
“The Fade”
Gather, Form & Fly, 2009
12
The Clientele
“Graven Wood”
Bonfires On the Heath, 2009
13
The Mountain Goats
“Psalms 40:2”
The Life of the World to Come, 2009
14
Soulsavers
“Death Bells”
Broken, 2009
15
Masters of Reality
“Dreamtime Stomp”
Pine/Cross Dover, 2009
16
Morrissey
“Something Is Squeezing My Skull”
Years of Refusal, 2009
17
The Nightingales
“Little Lambs”
Insult to Injury, 2009
18
Umphrey's McGee
“Prophecy Now”
Mantis, 2009
19
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
“Giants Causeway”
The Century of Self, 2009
20
The Decemberists
“The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)”
The Hazards of Love, 2009
21
Mumford & Sons
“White Blank Page”
Sigh No More, 2009
22
Here We Go Magic
“I Just Want to See You Underwater”
Here We Go Magic, 2009
23
Real Estate
“Pool Swimmers”
Real Estate, 2009
24
Memory Tapes
“Swimming Field”
Seek Magic, 2009
25
Noah and the Whale
“Slow Glass”
The First Days of Spring, 2009
26
Fever Ray
“Now's the Only Time I Know”
Fever Ray, 2009
27
Charlotte Gainsbourg
“IRM”
IRM, 2009
28
Volcano Choir
“Island, IS”
Unmap, 2009
29
Bell X1
“How Your Heart Is Wired”
Blue Lights On the Runway, 2009
30
Doves
“Jetstream”
Kingdom of Rust, 2009
31
The Temper Trap
“Rest”
Conditions, 2009
32
Grizzly Bear
“Two Weeks”
Veckatimest, 2009
33
Yo la Tengo
“Here to Fall”
Popular Songs, 2009
34
Passion Pit
“Moth's Wings”
Manners, 2009
35
Washed Out
“Feel It All Around”
Life of Leisure , 2009
36
DeLorean
“Seasun”
Ayrton Senna , 2009
37
The Big Pink
“Crystal Visions”
A Brief History of Love, 2009
38
Bear in Heaven
“Lovesick Teenagers”
Beast Rest Forth Mouth, 2009
39
Röyksopp
“Tricky Tricky”
Junior, 2009
40
Neon Indian
“Mind, Drips”
Psychic Chasms, 2009
41
Black Moth Super Rainbow
“Born On a Day the Sun Didn't Rise”
Eating Us, 2009
42
A Sunny Day in Glasgow
“Close Chorus”
Ashes Grammar, 2009
43
Animal Collective
“My Girls”
Merriweather Post Pavilion, 2009
44
Atlas Sound + Laetitia Sadier
“Quick Canal”
Logos, 2009
45
The Flaming Lips
“The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine”
Embryonic, 2009
46
The Field
“Everybody´s Got to Learn Sometime”
Yesterday and Today, 2009
47
Fuck Buttons
“Surf Solar”
Tarot Sport, 2009