Graphic by Fred Galoso.
Better late than never! Below you’ll find KRUI’s Top 25 albums of 2009. The list was created based on which albums KRUI played the most in the past year!
Check back in the coming days to see featured lists from KRUI DJs and listeners. Without further ado, KRUI’s Top 25 albums of 2009.
- Grizzly Bear - “Veckatimest”
- Andrew Bird – “Noble Beast”
- Animal Collective – “Merriweather Post Pavilion”
- Phoenix – “Wolfgang Amadaeus Phoenix”
- Passion Pit - “Manners”
- Camera Obscura – “My Maudlin Career”
- Bat for Lashes – “Two Suns”
- Woods – “Songs of Shame”
- Dan Deacon – “Bromst”
- Peter Bjorn And John – “Living Thing”
- M. Ward – “Hold Time”
- Neko Case - “Middle Cyclone”
- The Dirty Projectors - “Bitte Orca”
- Sunset Rubdown – “Dragonslayer”
- Eels – “Hombre Lobo”
- Antony and the Johnsons – “The Crying Light”
- The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – “The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart”
- The Thermals - “Now We Can See”
- Monsters of Folk – “Monsters of Folk”
- Atlas Sound – “Logos”
- William Elliott Whitmore – “Animals in the Dark”
- Girls – “Album”
- John Vanderslice - “Romanian Names”
- Bill Callahan – “Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle”
- Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – “Beware”
Iowa City just inherited a new musical talent in Alex Dezen. Dezen’s best known for his role fronting Brooklyn-based alt-rockers The Damnwells. Now he takes on a new role as a student at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. That doesn’t mean he’ll just be sitting in front of a typewriter, in fact, he’s already shown his face around Iowa City music venues and we can only hope that’s not a one-off. If you’re curious about the recruit we just got, you can check out The Damnwells here, and you can download their latest full-lenght, One Last Century, legally and for free.
This is some damn fine ragged, heart-on-sleeve alt-country. Embrace the musical gift Iowa City has just received.
Daytrotter will be kicking off their Barnstormer II Festival this Monday evening (the 5th) at 6 PM in West Liberty, IA. Many notable bands will be performing, including Port O’Brien, Nurses, Brooks Strause, and Drink Up Buttercup. And yes, they will all be playing in a barn. It is hard to miss an event like this.
Nurses is an up and coming trio from Portland, Oregon who have been featured on NPR and Pitchfork. Port O’Brien is out of California and are on the eve of releasing their new album entitled Threadbare. Many of us have heard their hit single, I Woke Up Today from their previous release and even on a commercial advertising for Dulux Paint. Brooks Strause is a fellow local folk rock artist right out of Cedar Falls, Iowa and lastly, with the addition of Drink Up Buttercup, catchy indie pop songs will not be missed.
