Top 9 Albums of 2009
January 26, 2010
Adequate: as much or as good as necessary for some requirement or purpose.
Adequate; it’s the only word that comes to mind when describing the music of 2009. It certainly wasn’t a bad year for music. No colossal letdowns from favourite bands. No nauseating ‘group of the moment’ hogging the spotlight. But was it really a great year? The old bands were solid, the new bands were interesting. But no one sound roped our collective ears by the guitar string. It was simply a satisfactory 12 months of audio digestion that left us no better or worse. Full, sure, content, yes but maybe a little wary of opening our mouths about it; not unlike a tuna melt.
9. Joel Plaskett - Three