Playlist 2/2/09

Cat Power – Moonshiner – Moon Pix (Matador)
Belle and Sebastian – Beyond the Sunrise – Fold Your Hands Child (Matador)
Her Space Holiday – Sleepy Tigers – XOXO Panda… (Mush)

Andrew Bird – Souverian – Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
The Good Life – Album of the Year – Album of the Year (Saddle Creek)
Hanalei – Better Days – We Are All Natural Disasters (Thick)

William Elliott Whitmore – Who Stole the Soul – Animals in the Dark (Anti-)
Smart Went Crazy – Best and Final Offer – Now We’re Even (Dischord)
Modern Lovers – Astral Plane – s/t (Beserkley)

A.C. Newman – All of My Days and All of My Days Off – Get Guilty (Matador)
Jawbreaker – Chesterfield King – Bivouac (Tupelo)
Rise Against – Swing Life Away – Siren Song of the Counter Culture (Geffen)

Cotton Jones – Gotta Cheer Up – Paranoid Cocoon (Suicide Squeeze)
PJ Harvey - This Mess We're in - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (Island)
Buffalo Tom – Mineral – Asides 1988-1999 (Bega)

Liz Phair – Never Said – Exile in Guyville (Matador)
Magnetic Fields – I Think I Need a New Heart – 69 Love Songs (Merge)
The Naked Hearts – Only for You – These Knees (self)

Ladyhawke – Better than Sunday – s/t (Modular)
Los Campesinos! - ...And We Exhale... - Hold On Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
The Like Young – Sabine and Me – So Serious (Parasol)

Benoit Pioulard – The Loom Pedal – Temper (Kranky)
Texas Is the Reason – Something to Forget – Do You Know Who You Are? (Dischord)
Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen in Love? – Operator’s Manual (EMI)

The Infrasonics – Combonaut – Surface to Air (Caffeinated Recordings)
The Concretes – Diana Ross – s/t (Astralwerks)
Sunny Day Real Estate – The Rising Tide – The Rising Tide (Time Bomb)