AoTW top songs of 2009

Another year ended and a new one began.
For Album of the Week 2009 was a pretty amazing year:

We danced shamelessly to the wondrous disco strangeness of of Montreal at our beloved home town venue, The Zoo.
We teared up during Elbow at the V Festival.
We fell in love for the first time (Songs, Warpaint, Girls, Cass McCombs, SeeKae, Air France, Dirty Projectors, Memory Tapes, etc, etc - Romantically fickle, are we not?).
We rekindled old flames (Andrew Bird, Edan, The Avalanches… True love never dies).
We moved (hello, Sydney!).
We mourned (goodbye, Michael).
We got super excited (Pavement returns and Wayne Coyne nude at last!).
We suffered disappointments (Jane's Addiction's last minute cancellation at Splendour in the Grass).
We made a whole lot of mix tapes.
We actually got Swine Flu.
We 'negotiated' over who did the interviews.
We fought over the last beer.
… and now we've finally made this list.

Here you are: our favourite songs from 2009. It was a year of amazing new bands, fantastic debut releases and some insanely rad singles, but we've managed to narrow our list down to this - in no particular order:

Next week - AoTW ALBUMS of the year.

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