Celebrated on this week's free podcast - our top 5 albums of 2009

If you missed last week's podcast we began the countdown to our album of the year. We announced numbers 10 - 6, which read...

10. Dance Mother by Telepathe
9. Crime of Love by Comanechi
8. Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors
7. Butter by Hudon Mowhawke
6. Summer of Hate by Crocodiles.

We're now inside the top 5, which features HEALTH. To find out who joins them on our list listen HERE.

This month's issue of Loud And Quiet (the final issue of the year, duh!) is out this weekend (Dec 20th), featuring an exclusive Yeasayer interview

Before we hibernate for Christmas and New Year (incidentally meaning that there will not be an issue released in January), we've got one last Loud And Quiet for you, featuring everything listed below and more.

We'd also like to thank everyone who has read/ordered/subscribe to/tolerated Loud And Quiet throughout 2009. We've had a great year as we launched podcasts, clubnights, a tape label and began distributing our independent mag nationally in October.

We'd especially like to thank all of the people who have and continue to contribute to the paper, with special props going out to Art Director Lee Belcher and Sub Editor Alex Wilshire. The mag doesn't exist without the bands, but most importantly it's nothing without enthusiastic, smart people writing about them and shooting and illustrating them. And it'd be pretty pointless if no one read the damned thing, so thanks again for that.

Over the Christmas holidays we're going to put our feet up and redesign www.loudandquiet.com, and hope you enjoy the last Loud And Quiet of 'the noughties'. It features...

Interviews with
YEASAYER
small black
TEETH!!!
is tropical
CHRISTMAS ISLAND
esben & the witch
RORY BRATTWELL

Reviews ofGOOD SHOES / charlotte gainsbourg / COMANECHI / ariel pink's haunted graffiti / LIGHTNING BOLT / xiu xiu / FORMER GHOSTS / fool's gold / FICTION / the soft pack / HOT CHIP / adam green / THE STICKS / bob mould / CASTROVALVA / fair ohs / LAURA MARLING / yeah yeah yeahs / EGYPTIAN HIP HOP / real estate / BUILD TO SPILL / jookabox / EELS / lightspeed champion / PIT ER PAT / ellie goulding... and more

PLUS

How The Noughties Killed Indie, This Month's FILMS and BOOKS and Party Wolf.

Order a copy HERE

We've added a load more highlights from recent issues of Loud And Quiet at loudandquiet.com

Like interviews with Lovvers, Egyptian Hip Hop and Cheatahs, and reviews of...

Esben & The Witch
Gyratory System
Spiral Stairs
Daniel Johnston...

... and more

Our free weekly podcast begins the countdown to our favourite albums 2009

If you've read our current issue of Loud And Quiet, you'll already know our top 20 albums of 2009... and our top tracks. And gigs. And disappointments. If you haven't - or even if you have and just want a taste our most listened to bands of the year - this week's free podcast begins the countdown to our favourite records released in the last 12 months.

Within numbers 10 to 6, you'll definitely find Telepathe, but that's all we're letting on. Listen HERE to find out who else has made the biggest impressions in '09.

We've got a pair of tickets to give a way for Bob Mould's London show on Dec 7th.

Go to LOUDANDQUIET.com for details.

For the £4 cheap list email info@loudandquiet.com now!

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If you missed out on last month's issue of Loud And Quiet you can read the highlights at loudandquiet.com

Just added to our site is an exclusive interview with EROL ALKAN

PLUS

Nodzzz
Veronica Falls
Cold Pumas

and reviews of Part Chimp, Atlas Sound, Mumford and Sons and A Place To Bury Strangers

... with Fair Ohs, Crocodiles, Elle Goulding, Internet Forever and Digital Leather

We've been listening to a lot of new music over the past 7 days but it's 5 tracks from the above that have been on our stereo most. Between the ramblings of this week's podcast the songs themselves should defend our musical tastes.

Have a listen HERE

LAQ001 - CROCODILES UK TOUR TAPE '09

Side 1
Crocodiles - Hollow Hollow Eyes [previously unreleased in the UK]
Mazes - Summer Hitz (Main Dykes)
Golden Grrrls - Duane Denison [exclusive track]
Cheatahs - Lycanthropy

Side 2
Cold Pumas - Day Monk Night Monk [exclusive track]
La La Vasquez - Don't Rush Me
The Hipshakes - Not Like I've Had Before
Egyptian Hip Hop - Rad Pitt



Available from Oct 19th 2009 from

www.loudandquietcassettes.bigcartel.com www.loudandquietcassettes.bigcartel.com www.loudandquietcassettes.bigcartel.com