Well, we’re 3 months in to our Best of 2009 Reader’s Poll, and I think it’s pretty obvious who you folks think had the record of the year: The xx. Phoenix was very close, but still a few votes shy of the London trio’s top spot. I was originally going to close the voting on [...]

The Reader’s Poll results haven’t changed too much for the past few weeks, but I realized I hadn’t given any statistics on the write-in poll. As 14% of the total votes have been for write-in answers, I thought I might be giving some folks the shaft by not calculating the results. Unquestionably, the funnest part [...]

The XX – XX
16%
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
15%
Miike Snow – Miike Snow
7%
Florence & The Machine – Lungs
6%
Metric – Fantasies
5%
Phoenix – Girlfriend

The XX – XX
16%
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
15%
Miike Snow – Miike Snow
7%
Florence & The Machine – Lungs
6%
Metric – Fantasies
6%
The XX – Crystalized (Rory Phillips)

The XX – XX
15%
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
14%
Florence & The Machine – Lungs
6%
Miike Snow – Miike Snow
6%
Metric – Fantasies vs La Roux – La Roux
5%
Metric – Gold Guns And Girls

Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
14%
The XX – XX
14%
Miike Snow – Miike Snow
6%
Florence & The Machine – Lungs
6%
La Roux – La Roux
6%

Things are more or less where they were last week, though White Lies have fallen out of the Top 5, and now 3 bands are battling for #4. The Dirty Projectors have made their way on the list for the first time.
#1 Phoenix – 15%
#2 The XX – 14%
#3 La Roux – 7%
#4 Bat [...]