Blog: Stereogum

There a few more days of pretending to look busy at work ahead, but as far as our iTunes are concerned 2009 can't get here soon enough. We're done with the lists . It's time for the new. We pored over the album-release sheets, took myriad Progress Reports , and narrowed the field to a list of twenty records we can't wait to prematurely evaluate over. It's gonna be a good year.