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 [...]

I’m sure someone somewhere has pointed it out, but it’s really astounding how much Romy looks like Robert Smith here. And no, I don’t mean that in an unpleasant or unflattering way. I’m not talking about late-period Joan Crawford Robert Smith, I’m talking about early 80s Robert Smith when he was actually a quite lovely [...]

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

It seems the boys in The Rakes have called it a day. Some might say it’s 2 albums too late, of course. It’s entirely possible I might be one of those people. Oh sure, Ten More Messages had some nifty singles on it – ‘We Danced Together’, ‘The World Was A Mess But His Hair [...]