Archive for: 2009

Top 10 Albums of 2009

For many of you reading this, this is your first time visiting Brasky. We claim no precise niche here, but with us being a bunch of music geeks living all around Florida, music and Florida-related culture will be our focus. We will do our best to serve up content that is worthy of your interest.

The idea of a top 10 albums of the year helped spark the reinvention of Brasky.org, so we spared no effort in preparing a well-researched, carefully contemplated list. We hope that you enjoy this music as much as we have. And note, while we shy away from pop music because of its commercial contaminants, we do keep everything on the radar and do not necessarily dismiss popular acts (but trust me, we choked down some shitty albums during the review period).

Without further ado, here is our first offering, made from 100% Brasky.
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Featured Art From 2009

1. Mark Weaver – Earth
Mark Weaver
Earth, pictured above, is an image from his Make Something Cool Every Day project, which took place from March 2008, to December, 2009. Other works that I’ve favorited by him include 1935, Cash, and Untitled (pictured to the right). If you are a fan of Weaver’s illustrations, check out his online shop to order postcards and screen prints.
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Notable Songs from 2009

This post is being added retroactively for posterity’s sake.

Most of these songs below were chosen with a sense of their actual impact and/or buzz generation among music crowds (from a pretty wide range of scenes).

Aether – Little Bit (remix of Lykke Li)
Anamanaguchi – Blackout City
Andrew Bird – Not a Robot, But a Ghost
Animal Collective – My Girls
Animal Collective – Taste
Atlas Sound – Shelia
Atlas Sound – Walkabout (w/ Noah Lennox)
Bassnectar – Boombox (iLL Gates remix)
Chase & Status – Eastern Jam
Dan Black – Symphonies
Dirty Projectors – Stillness is the Move
Discovery – I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (ft. Angel Deradoorian)
Flying Lotus – First Friday Funk
Ital Tek – Massive Error
KOAN Sound – Mafia
Metric – Help, I’m Alive
Monsters of Folk – Dear God (sincerely M.O.F.)
My Brightest Diamond – To Pluto (Son Lux remix)
Nosaj Thing – 1685 Bach
Odd Nosdam – Fly Mode
Prefuse 73 – Yule Tide
Robot Koch – KILLA
Sufjan Stevens – Blood
Team Teamwork – Slim Thug & Mike Jones – Still Tippin’ (Great Fairy’s Fountain)
The Bird and the Bee – Polite Dance Song
The Faunts – Feel Love Thinking Of (Mexicans with Guns remix)
The Heartless Bastards – The Mountain
Untold – Discipline
Wu-Tang Clan – Now Or Never (Parson remix)
Zomby – Spliff Dub (Rustie remix)


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