Best album .09 | Little Joy | Swell Season | Adele

It's funny, I don't really have whole albums very often anymore. Like most of the world, I mostly pick and choose individual songs from iTunes and skip the package deal. It certainly is more efficient and cheap(usually) and it lets me explore a lot of different music but I do miss discovering a lesser known song (ah, the demise of the B sides...) from the days of buying a whole artists' album.

I did opt for the album a few times, though:

Little Joy was a new find this year and I loved listening to it, especially this summer.

I loved Swell Season's Strict Joy (and NPR picked it as one of the top albums this year)

But if I had to choose an album of the year, one that when I hear it in the future it will zip me right back to 2009, it would have to be Adele. Soulful, playful, gorgeous, and heartfelt. I caught her concert at the Orpheum earlier this year and it only increased my faithfulness to this album. So there you go, album of the year 09.