2009 recommendations please!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Dear poptimists,
I am going to stay with my folks for a few days, where I will be largely cut off from the outside world i.e. the internet, which is an excellent opportunity to catch up on albums from 2009 that I have not yet caught up with. So far I have heard a few things that people have been shouting quite loudly about e.g. Electrik Red, Blaqkout, Rick Ross for some reason, and Silversun Pickups. Hmm... apparently I have only been listening to Lex and Moggy's advice so far this year. Any suggestions welcome.... and if I was to try and listen to something by this Michael Jackson fellow we've been hearing a lot about, I assume Off the Wall is the place to start? Thank you in advance,
yours with an enquiring mind
byebyepride

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

For fans of cheery indie-pop I'd still recommend The Bird and the Bee's "Rayguns Are Not Just the Future" (still the best of its kind I've heard this year); for fans of angsty teenpop with an affection for bar band rock (er, pub rock?) try Meg and Dia's "Here, Here, and Here"; for fans of Gucci Mane et al try what is inexplicably the strongest of these albums, Gorilla Zoe's "Don't Feed Da Animals"; for fans of being a super-contrarian type poptimist try Marilyn Manson's "The High End of Low" or Chris Cornell's "Scream." And I personally love that Ida Maria album, but piratemoggy will protest, so I'll leave it unsaid (woops).

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I second The Bird and the Bee.

The rest of my top five for 2009 not counting reissues / mixes:

V/A - 'Le Disco: Tele Music Remixed' (2CDs of awesome disco edits of French library music from 1979)
Holden - 'Fantomatisme' (French pop with a mild electronique twist c/o Atom™)
Ciara - 'Fantasy Ride'
Faze Action - 'Stratus Energy' (space disco)