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

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[credoimprobus]

TWO FINGERS
TWO FINGERS
TWO FINGERS

I already went on a bit (lazily) about it here, but it bears repeating!

Chrisette Michele's 'Epiphany' is very enjoyable, and I still really love the Ryan Leslie album (although others have not been as impressed). On the less pop side, Hudson Mohawke's 'Polyfolk Dance' ep is pretty awesome (reached me in a way the Flying Lotus album failed to quite do last year).

Minimal + dubstep bobbins: Gui Boratto's 'Take My Breath Away', lovely lovely Boxcutter's 'Arecibo Message' (Moggy has mentioned this one as well), and Martyn's 'Great Lengths'. And one I can't vouch properly for just yet but that seems cracking from the bits I've heard: Falty DL's 'Love Is a Liability'.

(I'd also be tempted to rec AGF/Delay's 'Symptoms', but I can't even decide myself how I feel about it. Heh. Also, definitely not the sort of thing that's everyone's cuppa.)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The AGF/Delay album is great. Caveat: I haven't gone back to it at all in the past few months but can't work out whether that's because it's the kind of album one doesn't go back to, or because it's such a cold, wintry album which would have been inappropriate recently.

[credoimprobus]

I, on the other hand, keep endlessly returning to it! Mind this has as much to do with the CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW I FEEL ABOUT IT as anything else, but it also has some undeniable nagging quality that draws me back time and again. It's such a puzzle of an album, somehow.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I went and bought the Gui Boratto album and have listened to it precisely ONCE. I should just turn in my Ubercoolische Minimal Bosh membership card now, shouldn't I?