Our assistant booker Peter listed his favorite albums of 2009:
1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion

2. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca

3. Fever Ray – Fever Ray

This week’s indie favourites at the ZXZW office:

As long as we’re waiting for that new My Bloody Valentine record, we’ll keep ourselves busy listening to the new Japandroids album. It’s called Post-Nothing, which is of course an über-cool name. Japandroids is a two piece band from Vancouver, BC. Like you guessed, it’s shoegaze, it’s noise, [...]