Best Albums:
1. In Ghost Colors/ Cut Copy
2. Hercules and Love Affair/ Hercules and Love Affair
3. Fleet Foxes/ Fleet Foxes
4. Santogold/ Santogold
5. Saturdays=Youth/ M83
6. Modern Guilt/ Beck
7. Crystal Castes/ Crystal Castles
8. Apocalypso/ The Presets
Best Singles
1. “Blind”/ Hercules and Love Affair
2. “White Winter Hymnal”/ Fleet Foxes
3. “Far Away”/ Cut Copy
4. “Gamma Ray”/ Beck
5. “Walking on a Dream”/ Empire of the Sun
6. “L.E.S. Artistes”/ Santagold
7. “Hearts on Fire”/ Cut Copy
8. “Electric Feel”/ Mgmt
9. “Graveyard Girl”/ M83
10. “American Boy”/ Estelle feat. Kayne West
11. “Back of the Van (Fred Falke Remix)/ Ladyhawke
12. “Day Off”/ Xinobi
Favorite New Artists:
1. Hercules and Love Affair
2. Fleet Foxes
3. Empire of the Sun
Overlooked Artists:
1. Moby
2. The Sound of Arrows
3. Cazals
Big in ‘09:
1. The Postelles
2. Louis La Roche
3. Empire of the Sun
4. Late of the Pier
5. Shazam
