The 50 Best Songs of 2009
As part of PopMatters’ 20th anniversary, we are revisiting classic features. Travel back in time a decade ago to 2009, when indie rock was in its full ascendency,and hear the songs that soundtracked the era.
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The 60 Best Albums of 2009
PopMatters turns 20 years old this October and we're beginning to celebrate our history by taking you back in time a decade ago. Obama was in the White House and the musical times were very good indeed. Revisit 2009 through its best albums.
Dirty Projectors Bounces Back with the Sonically Taxing ‘Lamp Lit Prose’
Dave Longstreth returns with the poppiest album yet from his project Dirty Projectors. Lamp Lit Prose offers big hooks as well as plenty of nervy rhythms and typical sonic left turns, resulting in a soundscape that's both exhilarating and exhausting.
Dirty Projectors: Dirty Projectors (take 2)
Returning to the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience.
Dirty Projectors: Dirty Projectors
What David Longstreth attempts to pass as daring, confessional experimentation often veers closer to self-indulgence.
Dirty Projectors – “Cool Your Heart (feat. D∆WN)” (Singles Going Steady)
D∆WN sounds as smooth and rich as she ever has, and David Longstreth brings his ever-sincere emotion to the table.
Dirty Projectors – “Keep Your Name” (Singles Going Steady)
Dirty Projectors return with this emotionally complex, multifarious number.
Counterbalance: Dirty Projectors’ ‘Swing Lo Magellan’
You reach out and into the absence and gasping. The vastness grabs you like an alien embrace, your face to the face of this week's Counterbalance, in which we look at the Dirty Projectors' 2012 indie hit. Foolish, we know, but we're about to die.