M&B Special :: Top 5 of 2009

Paul — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:00:16 +0000

Siphoning through the crap pumped out in 2009, there were some pretty awesome records released. Simply, here’s our Top Five.

THE HORRORS :: Primary Colours

Technically a second album, but for the sake of praise, we’ll call it a ‘proper debut’. And oh what a proper debut it was from Faris and the lads. Who didn’t first spin this expecting more house-smashing, brick-throwing lager-louting screaming and proceed to look curiously at the stereo as the darkest synth this side of Germany pounded out?

Horrors | Rough Trade

BRAND NEW :: Daisy

Fourth studio album released in September, containing 11 tracks of alternative rock which will leave you “exhausted“.

Brand New | Amazon

DEAD WEATHER :: Horehound

‘Supergroup’ is far too often used to describe a collaboration of musicians, but in the Dead Weather’s case it is oh so justified.

Dead Weather | Amazon

FRANK TURNER :: Poetry of the Deed

Y’all must be thinking Moon & Back Music has a fetish for Frank Tuner…and you’d be right, cus he’s fucking freakingly phat (see what I did there? with, like, the alliteration? Browning that) and Poetry of the Deed redeemed England on the singer-songwriter front.

Frank Turner | Amazon

MUSE :: The Resistance

Epic and as sensational as Tokyo’s fireworks this New Year’s and with a tour with more lights than Cape Cannaveral, Muse’s fifth album apparently topped the charts in 19 countries and firmly concreted them as the UK’s top live act and most experimental mainstream act and who will probably be around for even longer than this sentence is…

Muse