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2009 is more than half over, so it's time for a mid year best-of list. Here are my favorite songs of the year, to date.
1. Animal Collective – My Girls
from Chad von Nau on Vimeo.
2. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
from Suspicious Sounds on Vimeo.
3. Florence and the Machine – Cosmic Love. Based on its title alone this song sounds like it's destined to be very, very bad. I was bracing myself for totally over-the-top teenage bombast and, well, that's exactly what I got. There's huge Stevie Nicks vocals, a fucking harp, and badass drums – but it never becomes too much. You need a great producer to pull this stuff off. I don't know who produced this but I tip my hat. This is as good as pop music gets in 2009.
Cosmic Love - Florence And The Machine
4. Phoenix – Lisztomania
Phoenix - Lisztomania from 35east on Vimeo.
5. Pictureplane – Goth Star
6. Antony and Bryce Dessner – When I was Young I Left Home
7. The Handsome Furs – Radio Kaliningrad
8. James Blackshaw – Cross
9. Magnolia Electric Company – O! Grace
10. Neko Case – I'm an Animal
11. Heartless Bastards – The Mountain
12. Bat for Lashes – Moon and Moon
13. Tune-Yards – Hatari
14. The Veils – Sit Down by the Fire
15. Camera Obscura – French Navy
