CTD, Ltd.

James Bradley (Sound Fix)
1. Intelligence: Fake Surfers (In the Red)
2. Tyvek: s/t (Siltbreeze)
3. Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics: Inspiration Information (Strut)
4. Dan Deacon: Bromst (Carpark)
5. Pains of Being Pure at Heart: s/t (Slumberland)
6. Thee Oh Sees: Help (In the Red)
7. Elvis Perkins: In Dearland (XL)
8. Papercuts: You Can Have What You Want (Gnomonsong)
9. Morrissey: Years of Refusal (Lost Highway)
10. Bibio: Ambivalence Avenue (Warp)

Brad Schelden (Amoeba Music Hollywood)
Thieves Like Us-Play Music (Shelflife)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart-The Pains of Being Pure At Heart (Slumberland)
Telefon Tel Aviv-Immolate Yourself (BPitch Control)
XX-XX (XL Recordings)
The Gossip-Music For Men (Columbia)
Fever Ray-Fever Ray (Mute)
Silversun Pickups-Swoon (Dangerbird)
A Place to Bury Strangers-Exploding Head (Mute)
Dead Man's Bones-Dead Man's Bones (Anti)
Pictureplane-Dark Rift (Lovepump United)

Jason Skorup (CTD, Ltd)
25 Records That Blew My Mind in ’09
Ilyas Ahmed - Goner CD (Root Strata)
Atlas Sound - Logos LP (Kranky)
Bitter Tears - Jam Tarts In The Jakehouse (Carrot Top)
Jay Bolotin - Jay Bolotin LP (Locust)
Peter Broderick - 4 Track Songs LP (Type)
Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers LP (Dead Oceans)
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle LP (Drag City)
The Dutchess & The Duke - Sunset/Sunrise LP (Hardly Art)
Eternal Tapestry - Palace Of The Night Skies LP (Three Lobed)
Steve Gunn - Boerum Palace LP / Too Early For the Hammer CD (Three Lobed)
Roscoe Holcomb - The High Lonesome Sound LP (Smithsonian Folkways)
The Intelligence - Fake Surfers LP (In The Red)
Bert Jansch - L.A. Turnaround LP (Drag City)
Abner Jay - True Story Of Abner Jay LP (Mississippi) 
Glenn Jones - Barbecue Bob in Fishtown LP (Strange Attractors)
King Kong Ding Dong - Youth Culture Index CD (self)
Pisces - A Lovely Sight LP (Numero Group)
Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns LP (Saddle Creek)
Smith Westerns - Smith Westerns LP (HoZac)
Soccer Committee & Machinefabriek “Drawn” CD (Digitalis)
Sonny & The Sunsets - Tomorrow Is Alright LP (Soft Abuse)
Sparklehorse + Fennesz - In The Fishtank 15 LP (Konkurrent)
The Thing - Bag It! CD (Smalltown Superjazz)
Warpaint - Exquisite Corpse LP (Manimal Vinyl)
Woods - Songs Of Shame LP (Woodsist)

Neil Schield (Origami Vinyl)
1 - Fever Ray - S/T (Mute)
2 - Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (Domino)
3 - Mew - No More Stories... (Evil Office / Columbia)
4 - Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free (Dead Oceans)
5 - Timber Timbre - S/T (Arts & Crafts)
6 - Dan Deacon - Bromst (Carpark)
7 - Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp)
8 - Kissing Cousins - Pillar of Salt (Velvet Blue)
9 - The Entrance Band - S/T (Ecstatic Peace)
10 - Obits - I Blame You (Sub Pop)

Roy Ewing (Parasol Records)
Dawes   "North Hills"   (ATO)   
Jesu   "Opiate Sun"   (Caldo Verde)  
Washed Out   "Life Of Leisure"   (Mexican Summer)   
Amazing   "S-T"   (Subliminal Sounds)  
Vetiver   "Tight Knit"   (Sub Pop)  
Holopaw   "Oh, Glory. Oh, Wilderness"   (Bakery Outlet)  
Fruit Bats   "Ruminant Band"   (Sub Pop)  
Helm, Levon   "Electric Dirt"   (Vanguard)   
Califone   "All My Friends Are Funeral Singers"   (Dead Oceans) 
Case, Neko   "Middle Cyclone"   (Anti)

Aaron Coe (Interpunk.com)
Beck –One Foot In The Gave (Expanded Edition) (K)
Dinosaur Jr. –Farm (Jagjaguwar)
Ensiferum –From Afar (Spinefarm)
Get Up Kids –Something To Write Home About (10th Anniversary Edition) (Vagrant)
Lonely Island –Incredibad (Universal Republic)
Mishka –Above The Bones (J.K. Livin)
Nirvana –Live At Reading (Geffen)
Propagandhi –Supporting Caste (Smallman)
Strike Anywhere –Iron Front (Bridge Nine)
Sunny Day Real Estate –Diary (Remastered) (Sub Pop)

Mike Turner (Wuxtry Records / HHBTM Records / Athens PopFest)
TOP TEN NEW RELEASES (no actual order)
1. Girls - Album (True Panther Sounds)
2. Hot Cha Cha - the World's Hardest Working Telescope (Exit Stencil)
3. Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong (In The Red)
4. Boat - Setting the Paces (Magic Marker)
5. Brilliant Colors - Introducing.... (Slumberland)
6. So Cow - So Cow (Tic Tac Totally)
7. Shrag - Shrag (Where It's At)
8. Fishboy - vs the Om Nom Noms
9. Morrissey - Years of Refusal (Lost Highway)
10. Cococoma - Things are Not Alright (Goner)

TOP TEN REISSUES (no actual order)
1. Pylon - Chomp More
2. Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
3. New Order - Movement
4. Raincoats - Raincoats
5. Subway -Subway II
6. Animals and Men - Revel in the Static
7. Monks - Black Monk Time
8. Monks - the Early Years
9. God's Gift - Pathology
10. the Neats - the Ace of Hearts Years

Julia Adams (CTD)
in no particular order
Bill Callahan/Sometimes I wish We Were an Eagle (Drag City)
Bonnie Prince Billy/Beware (Drag City)
Grizzly Bear/Veckatimist (Warp)
Rosanne Cash/The List (Manhattan Records)
Fruit Bats/Ruminant Band (SubPop)
Wilco/(The Album) (Nonesuch)
Califone/All My Friends are Funeral Singers (Dead Oceans)
MIchael Abramson/Light:On the South Side  Okay, it's a book(w/lps!) but it is awesome!
Curtis Harvey/ Box of Stones(Fat Cat)
Neko Case/Middle Cyclone(Anti)

Adam Reach (Touch & Go)
Yes, I put the Lizard on there, as they're old records, but still better than almost everything ever. Take that Jason and Brook!
Mayyors "Deads EP" - self released
Om "God Is Good" - Drag City
The Jesus Lizard "Pure (Reissue)" - Touch and Go
The Jesus Lizard "Head (Reissue)" - Touch and Go
The Jesus Lizard "Goat (Reissue)" - Touch and Go
The Jesus Lizard "Liar (Reissue)" - Touch and Go
The Jesus Lizard "Down (Reissue)" - Touch and Go
Cave "Psychic Summer" - Permanent
Polvo "Prism" - Merge
Gun Outfit "Dim Light" - Post Present Medium
Slayer "World Painted Blood" - American
Tyvek "S/T" - Siltbreeze
Double Dagger "More" - Thrill Jockey
Mission of Burma "The Sound The Speed The Light" - Matador
Twin Stumps "S/T" - Dais
Sunn O))) "Monoliths and Dimensions" - Southern Lord
Death "...For The Whole World To See" - Drag City
Obits "I Blame You" - Sub Pop
White Shit - "Sculpted Beef" - Post Present Medium
Blues Control "Local Flavor" - Siltbreeze
V/A "Eccentric Soul: Smart's Palace" - Numero Group
The Black Heart Procession "Six" - Temporary Residence
Crocodiles "Summer of Hate" - Fat Possum
Shannon Wright "Honeybee Girls" - Vicious Circle
Halo of Flies "Gay Witch Abortion Sessions" - Amphetamine Reptile
Mi Ami "Watersports" - Quarterstick
Big Business "The Drift" - Hydra Head

Things about 2009 that I will not miss:
Michael Jackson
Stories about Michael Jackson
Pictures of Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson's brothers/sisters/family/children/house/film
President's Day
Kayne, Taylor Swift, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Trent Reznor, Billy Corgan, that Waaves trainwreck-of-a-dude
2009 can go straight to hell

Tony Dale (Camera Obscura Records)
Æthenor – "Faking Gold And Murder" (vhf)
Current 93 "Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain" (Durtro)
Espers "III" (Drag City)
Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh "Overloaded Ark" (Drag City)
Glenn Jones "Barbeque Bob in Fishtown" (Strange Attractors)
Loner Deluxe – Must Not Sleep Must Warn Others/Lost & Found (Rusted Rail)
Mono "Hymn to the Eternal Wind" (Temporary Residence)
Six Organs of Admittance "Luminous Night" (Drag City)
Sonic Youth "The Eternal" (Matador)
Sunn0)))) "Monoliths and Dimensions" (Southern Lord)

Bruce Adams  (FSS)
Menace Ruine - The Die is Cast (Alien8)
On - Your Naked Ghost Comes Back at Night (Type)
Trash Talk - Trash Talk (Trash Talk Collective)
Lawrence English - Kiri No Oto (Touch)
Caves - 2nd (Self Released)
No Anchor - Steam (Self Released)
Trap Them - Seizures in Barren Praise (Deathwish Inc.)
Dead Swans - Sleepwalkers (Bridge Nine)
The Hope Conspiracy - True Nihilist 7"  (Deathwish Inc.)
Pussygut - She Hid Behind Her Veil (20Buck Spin)

Pete Boyce (CTD)
1. Magda Alice Czerepak
2. Gas - Nah Und Fern
3. Various Artists - Warp 20 box set
4. Ramses III - I Could Not Love You More
5. Mountains - Choral
6. Various Artists - Can You Dig It?
7. Ducktails - S/T
8. Namlook & Le Mar - S/T
9. The Field - Yesterday & Today
10. Trentemoller - Harbour Boat Trip 01

Joel Beeman (CTD)
Odawas - Blue Depths (Jagjaguwar)
Zelienople - Give It Up (Type)
Rameses III - I Could Not Love You More (Type)
Simon Scott - Navigare (Miasmah)
Pillowdiver - Sleeping Pills (12K)
Elm - Nemacatacoa (Digitalis)
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country (Kranky)
Ilyas Ahmed - Goner (Root Strata)
Richard Youngs - Under Stellar Stream (Jagjaguwar)
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Ashes Grammar (Mis Ojos Discos)

Joakim Haugland (Smalltown Supersound)
1. Animal Collective "Merriweather Post Pavillion" (Domino)
2. Boredoms "Super Roots 10" (Thrill Jockey)
3. Dinosaur Jr "Farm" (Jagjaguar)
4. Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas "2" (Eskimo)
5. Etienne Jaumet "Night Music" (Domino)
6. John Olav Nilsen & Gjengen "For Sant Til Å Være Godt" (Voices Of Wonder)
7. Grizzly Bear "Vacatimest" (WARP
8. The XX "The XX" (Young Turks)
9. Atlas Sound "Logos" (4AD)
10. Wilco "Wilco The Album" (Nonesuch)

Caitlin Lavin (CTD)
Thee Oh Sees - Help! (In the Red)
Bowerbirds - Upper Air (Dead Oceans)
Fresh & Onlys - Debut (Castle Face)
Woods - Songs of Shame (Woodsist)
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp)
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (Drag City)
Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away (Thrill Jockey)
Smith Westerns - 1st Album (Hozac)
Sonny & the Sunsets - Tomorrow Is All right (Soft Abuse)
Dutchess & The Duke - Sunrise/Sunset (Hardly Art)
Bitter Tears - Jam Tarts in the Jake House (Carrot Top)

Never Before Released until 2009:
Pisces - A Lovely Sight (Numero)
Death - ...For The Whole World to See (Drag City)

Fave Reissues -
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson (Light in the Attic)
Monks - Black Monk Time (LITA)
Raincoats - S/T (Kill Rock Stars)
Vaselines - Way of the Vaselines (Sub Pop)

George Sereika (Vintage Vinyl, NJ)
1. Michael Jackson-This Is It (Sony)
2. Satyricon-Age Of Nero (Koch)
3. Devo-Freedon Of Choice reissue (Warner Bros)
4. Municipal Waste-Massive Aggressive (Earache)
5. Marilyn Manson-High End Of Low (Interscope)
6. V/A-Daptone Gold (Daptone)
7. Todd-Big Ripper (Riot Season)
8. Katatonia-Night Is the New Day (Peaceville UK)
9. Celan-Halo (Exile On Mainstream)
10. William Elliott Whitmore-Animals In the Dark (Anti)

Rene (Clear Spot)
1 Yanka Styd I Sram (reissue)
2 Mono Hymn To The Immortal Wind
3 Various African Pearls Mali 70
4 Die Weisse Rose A Martyrium Of White Roses
5 Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School Of Medicine The Audacity Of Hype
6 Various - Legends Of Benin
7 Harvestman In A Dark Tongue
8 Group Bombino Guitars From Agadez Vol. 2
9 Whitehouse Quality Time (LP reissue)
10 Onna Onna (reissue)

Hans (Clear Spot)
1   Mangrove   ‘Beyond reality’
2   IQ   ‘Frequency’
3   Redshift   ‘Wild 3’
4   Astra    “The weirding’
5   Beardfish   ‘Destined solitaire’
6   Dream Theater   ‘Black clouds and silver linings’
7   Moss   ‘Never be scared don’t be a hero’
8   Solanaceae   ‘Solanaceae’
9   5 Bridges   ‘The Thomas tracks’  
10 Warbringer   ‘Waking into nightmares’

Desolation Row’s Hot Platters 2009
1. Boca Chica – Lace Up Your Workboots
2. Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
3. Meeting of Important People – S/T
4. Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
5. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
6. A. C. Newman – Get Guilty
7. The Harlan Twins – S/T
8. Big Star – Keep an Eye on the Sky (Boxset)
9. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Vs. Children
10. Bee Gees – Odessa (Reissue)
11. Kevin Finn – Thirteenth Rune
12. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
13. Emily Rodgers – Bright Day
14. Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
15. Neil Young – Archives Vol. 1 (Boxset)
16. David Bernabo + Assembly – Happener Magicker
17. The Monks – Black Monk Time (Reissue)
18. Bonnie Prince Billy – Beware
19. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
20. Leonard Cohen – Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
21. Lohio – S/T
22. Sunny Day in Glasgow – Ashes Grammar
23. House of Assassins – Your Days Are Numbered
24. Mountain Goats – The Life of the World to Come
25. Robyn Hitchcock – Goodnight Oslo
*Special Mention: The Beatles – Complete Remasters

Allison Wasilewski (CTD)
no order, I'm indecisive
Atlas Sound - Logos (Kranky)
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns (Astralwerks)
Death - For the Whole World To See (Drag City)
Glenn Jones - Barbecue Bob in Fishtown (Strange Attractors)
Sean Lennon - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead (Chimera Music)
Sparklehorse + Fennesz - In the Fishtank 15 (Fishtank)
Stricken City - Songs About People I Know (Kora)
Warpaint - Exquisite Corpse (Manimal)
Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (Dead Oceans)
Dutchess & the Duke - Sunset/Sunrise (Hardly Art)
Talk Normal - Sugarland (Rare Book Room)
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammer (Mis Ojos Discos)
Sonny & the Sunsets - Tomorrow Is Alright (Soft Abuse)

Comps:
Light on the South Side by Michael Abramson (Numero)
Can You Dig It (Soul Jazz)
Back to Peru V2 (Vampi Soul)
Local Customs: Downriver Revival (Numero)

Jon (Flat Black & Circular)
Blank Dogs - under & under (in the red)
Place To Bury Strangers - exploding head  (mute)
Broadcast & The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults (warp)
Hildur Gudnadóttir   - without sinking  (touch)
HTRK - marry me tonight  (blast first)
Helena Espval & Masaki Batoh - overloaded ark (drag city)
Cold Cave - love comes close  (matador)
Sean Lennon - rosenerantz & guildenstern are undead (chimera)
Wolf Eyes - always wrong (hospital)
Eluvium - talk amongst the trees  (temp res)

Ed Post (CTD) (in semi-particular order)
1. Marked Men - Ghosts (Dirtnap)
2. Death - ...For The Whole World To See (Thrill Jockey)
3. Obits – I Blame You (Sub Pop)
4. Vee Dee - Public Mental Health System (Criminal IQ)
5. Personal & The Pizzas/Booby Ubangi – Split 7” (Rob’s House)
6. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Tell 'Em What Your Name Is! (Lost Highway)
7. V/A - Rocky Mountain Low: The Colorado Musical Underground Of The Late 70s
8. Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds – Dracula Boots (In The Red)
9. Double Dagger – More (Thrill Jockey)
10. Times New Viking – Born Again Revisited (Matador)
 

Joshua Punchur (Punchur Works/CTD)
1. Future of the Left - Travels With Myself And Another (4AD)
2. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (Domino)
3. Polvo - In Prism (Merge)
4. Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian (Warp)
5. Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
6. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glassnote)
7. Double Dagger - More (Thrill Jockey)
8. Thee Oh Sees - Help (In The Red)
9. Mirah - a(spera) (K)
10. anything put out by Dead Oceans Records such as the Akron/Family, Mt
St Helens Vietnam Band, Califone, etc.


Chris Scofield (Strange Attractors Audio House)
In no particular order (‘cause that’s just too hard): 
Balmorhea – All is Wild, All is Silent CD/LP (Western Vinyl)
Six Organs of Admittance – Luminous Night CD/LP (Drag City)
Om – God is Good CD/LP (Drag City)
V/A – Alan Lomax in Haiti 10xCD Box Set (Harte Recordings)
Sunn O))) – Monoliths and Dimensions CD (Southern Lord)
J. Tilman – Year in the Kingdom CD/LP (Western Vinyl)
James Blackshaw – The Glass Bead Game CD/LP (Young God)
Cave – Psychic Psummer CD/LP (Important Records)
White Rainbow – New Clouds CD/2xLP (Kranky)
Dengue Fever – Sleepwalking Through the Mekong DVD/CD (M80)

Chris Berry (Soft Abuse)
Black to Comm “Alphabet 1968” (Type)
Brute Heart "Brass Beads" (self released)
Bill Callahan "Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle" (Drag City)
The Clientele "Bonfires on the Heath" (Merge)
Circuit des Yeux “Sirenum” (DeStijl)
Eat Skull “Wild and Inside” (Siltbreeze)
The Fresh & Onlys "Grey-Eyed Girls" (Woodsist)
Jeremy Jay "Slow Dance" (K)
The Mantles "The Mantles" (Siltbreeze)
Cass McCombs "Catacombs" (Domino)
Bill Orcutt “A New Way to Pay Old Debts” (Palilala)
Papercuts "You Can Have What You Want" (Gnomonsong)
Peaking Lights “Imaginary Falcons” (Night People)
The Skygreen Leopards "Gorgeous Johnny" (Jagjaguwar)
Vampire Hands "Hannah in the Mansion" (St Ives)
Kurt Vile “Childish Prodigy” (Matador)
Kurt Vile “God is Saying This to You” (Mexican Summer)
Woods "Songs of Shame" (Woodsist/Shrimper)

Patrick Monaghan (CTR, CTD)
Annie - Don't Stop (Smalltown Supersound)
The Bats - The Guilty Office (Hidden Agenda)
Norah Jones - The Fall (Blue Note)
Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band - Between My Head and the Sky (Chimera)
The Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs - Dark Side of the Moon (WB)
Sparklehorse + Fennesz - In the Fishtank (In the Fishtank)
Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)
Them Crooked Vultures - S/T (Interscope)
Wilco - Wilco the Album (Nonesuch)
V/A - Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm (Vanguard)

Reissue:
Woody Guthrie - My Dusty Road (Rounder)

Klaas (Konkurrent)
HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR - WITHOUT SINKING
FUCK BUTTONS - TAROT SPORT
FEVER RAY - S/T
SPARKLEHORSE + FENNESZ - IN THE FISHTANK
MT EERIE - WIND POEMS
V/A - DUB ECHOES
KING MIDAS SOUND - WAITING FOR YOU
V/A - DARK WAS THE NIGHT
MICACHU - JEWELLERY
MOONDOG - MORE MOONDOG
FEELIES-CRAZY RHYTHMS

Mike Wolf (Rare Book Room/Sound Fix/Boxcar)
1. Steve Gunn - Boerum Palace (Three Lobed Recordings)
2. Azita - How Will You? (Drag City)
3. TV Ghost - Cold Fish (In the Red)
4. Zola Jesus - The Spoils (Sacred Bones)
5. White Out - Senso (Ecstatic Peace)
6. Noveller - Red Rainbows (No Fun)
7. Chris Brokaw - Gracias, Ghost of the Future (Capitan)
8. Kiila - Tuota Tuota (Fonal)
9. Sharon Van Etten - Because I Was in Love (Language of Stone)
10. Lights - Rites (Drag City)

Ed Mazzucco (Shelflife)
Top 10 releases of 2009
1. Seeland - Tomorrow Today CD (LOAF)
2. Sally Shapiro - My Guilty Pleasure lp/cd (Paperbag)
3. Epic45 - In All The Empty Houses cd (Make Mine Music)
4. Röyksopp - Junior lp (Astralwerks)
5. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar lp/cd (Mis Ojos Discos)
6. So Cow - So Cow lp (Tic Tac Totally)
7. Cats On Fire - Our Temperance Movement cd (Johanna Kustannus/Matinée)
8. Northern Portrait - Criminal Art Lovers cd (Matinée)
9. CFCF - Continent lp/cd (Paperbag)
10. Keith Canisius - Waves cd (Quince)