Music: Saturday Mixtape: The best singles of 2009, in no particular order
- Lots of great singles came out this year – pieces of memorable mind candy worthy of (more than) a few minutes of your time. Here are a few of our faves.
- one Instant euphoria, in just a few words. What else could you want?
- two Crocodiles hit our Jesus & Mary Chain soft spot; they get in easily.
- three St. Vincent makes every second of “Actor out of Work” count.
- four Best use of synthetic hand claps goes to YACHT this year.
- five “Sunlight” by Tune-Yards has such a simple, organic sound.
- six Bradford Cox works well with Animal Collective members.
- seven The Big Pink gets a lot out of a really awesome lyrical hook.
- eight The best part of Antony’s “Another World”? The empty spaces.
- nine Girls, the band, exposed sadness through unending optimism.
- ten Cass McCombs’ hazy take on alt-country had an obvious peak.
