Origami Vinyl's Best of 2009 Lists

Sean, Sam and Myself all got together and picked some of our faves of the year and thought we would share. We broke it down into 4 categories: Favorite Albums, Favorite 7"s, Favorite Reissues, and Favorite Local Releases. Please leave a comment at the bottom and share your lists and thoughts with us as well.

Favorite Albums of 2009
Sean:
1. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca (Domino)
2. Akron/Family – Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free (Dead Oceans)
3. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
4. Mew – No More Stories (Columbia)
5. Kurt Vile – Childish Prodigy (Matador)
6. HEALTH – Get Color (Lovepump United)
7. Pissed Jeans – King Of Jeans (Subpop)
8. Obits – I Blame You (Subpop)
9. Broadcast & The Focus Group – Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age (Warp)
10. Clues - S/T (Constellation)

Neil:
1. Fever Ray - S/T (Mute)
2. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (Domino)
3. Mew - No More Stories... (Columbia)
4. Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free (Dead Oceans)
5. Timber Timbre - S/T (Arts & Crafts)
6. Dan Deacon - Bromst (Carpark)
7. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp)
8. Kissing Cousins - Pillar of Salt (Velvet Blue)
9. Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love (Jagjaguwar)
10. Obits - I Blame You (Subpop)

Sam:
1. J.Tillman - Year in the Kingdom (Western Vinyl)
2. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - S/T (Slumberland)
3. The Mother Hips - Pacific Dust (Camera)
4. Dawes - Northern Hills (ATO)
5. I Was A King - S/T (The Control Group)
6. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp)

Favorite Reissues of 2009
Sean:
1. Graham Nash – Songs For Beginners (Rhino)
2. Big Star – Radio City (Ardent/Stax)
3. Sunny Day Real Estate – LP2 (Subpop)
4. Jawbox – For Your Own Special Sweetheart (DeSoto)
5. Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador)
6. Wilco - Summerteeth (Nonesuch)
7. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin (Warner Brothers)
8. The Nerves – One Way Ticket (Alive!)
9. Fred McDowell – S/T (Mississippi)
10. De Kift – S/T 7” (Mississippi)

Neil:
1. Neil Young - Official Release Series Discs 1-4 Box Set (S/T, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, After The Gold Rush, Harvest) (Reprise)
2. Abner Jay - The True Story of Abner Jay (Mississippi)
3. Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2 (Subpop)
4. Fred McDowell - S/T (Mississippi)
5. The Vaselines - Enter the Vaselines (Subpop)
6. Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart (DeSoto)
7. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (Warner Brothers)
8. Nirvana - Bleach (Subpop)
9. The Jesus Lizard - Down (Touch and Go)
10. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson (Light in the Attic)

Sam:
1. Big Star - #1 Record (Ardent/Stax)
2. Big Star - Radio City (Ardent/Stax)
3. Arthur Russell - Love is Overtaking Me (Audika)
4. Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2 (Subpop)
5. Wilco - AM (Nonesuch)

Favorite 7"s of 2009
Sean:
1. Big Star – Feels (Ardent)
2. Three Mile Pilot – Planets (Temporary Residence)
3. Salem – Frost/Legend (Audraglint)
4. Obits – I Can’t Lose (Subpop)
5. I Was A King – Norman Bleik (The Control Group)
6. Lilofee – Runaway/In Flight (Origami Vinyl/Future Sounds)
7. Ganglians – Blood On The Sand (Captured Tracks)
8. Anglos – Cleopatra (Great Minds)
9. Can’t/Arthur Russell – Split (Terrible)
10. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Zodiac Girls (Suicide Squeeze)

Neil:
1. Salem - Frost/Legend (Audraglint)
2. Lilofee - Runaway/In Flight (Origami Vinyl/Future Sounds)
3. The Big Pink - Velvet (4AD)
4. Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others/While you Wait for the Others feat. Michael McDonald (Warp)
5. Health - Die Slow (Lovepump United)
6. Avi Buffalo - What's In It For (Subpop)
7. Best Coast - Sun Was High (So Was I) (Art Fag)
8. The Sonik Youth / Beck - Pay No Mind / Green Light (Matador)
9 - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction (Slumberland)
10 - Ganglians - Blood on the Sand (Captured Tracks)

Sam:
1. Big Star - Feels (Ardent)
2. Can't/Arthur Russell - Split (Terrible)
3. Avi Buffalo - What's In It For (Subpop)
4. Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others/While you Wait for the Others feat. Michael McDonald (Warp)

Favorite Local Releases of 2009
Sean:
1. Kissing Cousins – Pillar Of Salt (Velvet Blue)
2. 60 Watt Kid – We Come From The Bright Side (Absolutely Kosher)
3. Glasser – Apply EP (True Panther)
4. Alexandra Hope – Invisible Sunday (Manimal)
5. Jail Weddings – Inconvenient Dreams (White Noise)
6. Fools Gold – S/T (I Am Sound)
7. The Parson Redheads – Orangufang 7” (Jaxart)
8. Frankel – Anonymity Is The New Fame (Autumn Tone)
9. Olentangy John – See Seven Stars 7” (Trailer Fire)
10. John Carpenter – Seasons 7” (Mexican Summer)

Neil:
1. Kissing Cousins - Pillar of Salt (Velvet Blue)
2. The Entrance Band - S/T (Ecstatic Peace)
3. HEALTH - Get Color (Lovepump United)
4. The Growlers - S/T (Everloving)
5. Fool's Gold - S/T (I Am Sound)
6. Glasser - Apply EP (True Panther)
7. Warpaint - Exquisite Corpse EP (Manimal)
8. Frankel - Anonymity is the New Fame (Autumn Tone)
9. Alexandra Hope - Invisible Sunday (Manimal)
10. Virginia Reed - She is the Horse (How To Be A Microwave)

Sam:
1. Dawes - Northern Hills (ATO)
2. Princeton - Cocoon of Love (Kanine)
3. Avi Buffalo - What's In It For (Subpop)