Liz's Best Music of 2009

Each year around November, my stress level spikes as I begin frantically trying to catch up on everything I feel I've missed in music from the previous 10 months. This year, that consisted of lots of iTunes downloading, blog reading, and making one final last-ditch effort to understand what is so great about Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear (conclusion: nothing.)

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Russ's Best Music Of 2009

Gah, the hand-wringing. The debates. The yelling at various albums to try harder. I know several people bemoaning 2009 as a horrid year for music, but as far as I'm concerned those people basically shut down once that Animal Collective record came out.

2009 was an epic year in music as far as I'm concerned, most notably because pop got smarter, continuing to assimilate the shattered worlds of indie and electronic-whatever either of those words even mean anymore.

My best music of 2009:

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