Monday 21 December 2009

The Milk Factory - THE 2009 REVIEW

Twelve months compiled into just twenty albums. From the thousands of records released each year, it is difficult to get even a handful on the site, and even more difficult to decide which ones were the best of the lot. This is however the twenty albums that have marked the 2009 for themilkfactory.

1.
VLADISLAV DELAY
Tummaa
The Leaf Label

2.

BEN FROST
By The Throat
Bedroom Community

3.

STRINGS OF CONSCIOUSNESS & ANGEL
Strings Of Consciousness & Angel
Important Records

4.

PETER BRODERICK & MACHINEFABRIEK
Blank Grey Canvas Sky
Fang Bomb

5.

MORITZ VON OSWALD TRIO
Vertical Ascent
Honest Jon’s Records

6.

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
Merriweather Post Pavillion
Domino Recording Co.

7.

KING MIDAS SOUND
Waiting For You
Hyperdub

8.

SYMBIOSIS ORCHESTRA
Live Journeys
Baskaru

9.

MOUNTAINS
Choral
Thrill Jockey

10.

TYONDAI BRAXTON
Central Market
Warp Records

11.

BROADCAST & THE FOCUS GROUP
Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age
Warp Records

12.

ALVA NOTO & RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
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Raster Noton



13.

PETER BROODERICK
Music For Falling From Trees
Erased Tapes

14.

THE VILLAGE ORCHESTRA
I Can Hear The Sirens Singing Again
Highpoint Lowlife



15.

TELEFON TEL AVIV
Immolate Yourself
BPitch Control

16.

SIMON SCOTT
Navigare
Miasmah Recordings

17.

ÓLAFUR ARNALDS
Found Songs
Erased Tapes

18.

SND
Atavism
Raster-Noton

19.

OBERMAN KNOCKS
13th Smallest
Aperture Records

20.

RIVAL CONSOLES
IO
Erased Tapes

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No label persuasion, just personal opinion.