Top ten tracks of 2009!

Finally, you can all rest easy - the top ten tracks list is here! As in the previous year, I'm taking a dictatorial yet flexible approach to the list: the tracks don't necessarily have to have been released in 2009, they just have to have been listened to by me during the last year. Click on the links for undeniable listening pleasure.

There was so much stuff I enjoyed last year, I thought I'd include the ones that didn't quite make it:

Hayden: Let's Break Up

Luke Vibert: Pretty Old Acid Music

Metric: Help I'm Alive

Blue Sky Black Death: Tokyo Underground

Patrick Watson: Man Like You.  (This is also the only video of the singer performing an acoustic version live from a bathtub).

But there has to be a cut somewhere.  So without further ado, here's the top 10, in dramatic 'last first' fashion:

10. Jay-Z: Empire State of Mind

9. The Gaslight Anthem: 59 Sound

8. Sufjan Stevens: John Wayne Gacy Jr.

7. Richard Hawley: Just Like The Rain

6. Bon Iver: Lump Sum

5. Royksopp: The Girl and The Robot

4. Phoenix: Lisztomania

3. Nitin Sahwney: Days of Fire

2. Antony and Bryce Dessner: I Was Young When I Left Home

1. Doves: Kingdom of Rust

Enjoy!