Best Love Songs Of 2009
My top 5 best local albums of 2009 – Oregon Music News by Terry Currier
by Terry Currier on November 21, 2009
It’s great to live in Portland. Great people, great restaurants, great weather (well at least half the year) and great music. There are enough great musicians in this town to satisfy your musical palate every night of the year without ever having to catch a touring artist if you wanted to.
It’s that time of the year where I make my favorite albums of the year list. As it has been on many years in the past, it contains a great number of local artists releases. Here are my top favorite local releases for 2009.
#1 Weinland - Breaks In The Sun – This band does not get the credit it deserves but if they keep making albums like this, they are bound to become one of Portland’s favorites as well as make a major impression on music lovers everywhere. Weinland’s music doesn’t jump out and grab you with blistering guitars or loads of energy. Adam Shearer, for the most part is Weinland. He has surrounded himself with a cast of great musicians. He writes beautiful music that, when listened to, just grabs your ears and doesn’t let you go.
#2 Decemberists – Hazards of Love – This band did not fry to follow-up the most successful album of their career with something that sounded the same. It’s fresh, with an opening track that you want to play over and over again. Then you get to the rest of the album and it turns out that you’ve just experienced a great musical journey. It’s an album of great songs that fit’s all together well.
#3 Richmond Fontaine - We Use To Think The Freeway Sounded Live A River – What does it take for Portland to embrace one of their best musical exports? Willy Vautin is hands down one of the most gifted writers Portland has, both Literally and musically. This is Richmond Fontaines’ 8th release and they are embraced by Europe in the way the States embrace Ryan Adams or Wilco. The European music critics love them also. Not in their own town of Portland though. This album may be their best but then again I said that about the last one. They just keep getting better. You know some of the people and places that Willy writes about. The Americana sound is familiar but accented different from most. The songs can’t be beat as Willy really know’s how to tell a good story in an interesting fashion.
About the Author
Terry Currier is a contributor to Oregon Music News
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