Top 14 of 2009
In no particular order (other than when they came to mind):
Longmont Potion Castle - LPC 7
Brand New - Daisy
Atlas Sound - Logos
Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Baroness - Blue Record
Russian Circles - Geneva
Dignan - Crooks & Thieves
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
O'Brother - The Death Of Day EP
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Converge - Axe To Fall
Kowloon Walled City - Gambling On The Richter Scale
David Bazan - Curse Your Branches
No Beggars - not a list.
I kid.
I'm checking out some of those mentioned. Others have already. Have yet to decide whether I reeeeeally like the Blue Record or if I'm biased because of the blue.
Since Riley is probably the single person of most influence on me when it comes to finding new music, I will carefully listen to all of them eventually.
Glad to see The Resistance is not on the list. No offense to Muse, but yeah.