XLR8R Buyers' Guide to Dreamin' 2K9

• Words: Ken Taylor

If you're still feeling hopped up after getting jacked, bubbled, bumped, and tripped-out, then let this, the last of XLR8R's Buyers' Guides to our favorite music of 2009, usher in those warm, fuzzy sensations, tender as the night. Whether it's the come-down hours of a killer holiday party, or you're just looking to get slinky and sleazy, this one's a certified winner.

Tomasz Bednarczyk
Let's Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow [Buy]
(12k)
Listen: "The Sketch"

Cold Cave
Love Comes Close [Buy]
(Heartworm Press/Matador)
Listen: "Love Comes Close"

Delorean
Ayrton Senna EP [Buy]
(Fool House France)
Listen: "Seasun"

Intrusion
Seduction of Silence [Buy]
(Echospace)
Listen: "Little Angel"

Junior Boys
Begone Dull Care [Buy]
(Domino)
Listen: "Parallel Lines"

Mount Kimbie
Sketch on Glass [Buy]
(Hot Flush)
Listen: "Sketch on Glass"

Nite Jewel
Good Evening [Buy]
(Human Ear Music)
Listen: "What Did He Say"

Nudge
As Good As Gone [Buy]
(Kranky)
Listen: "Burns Blue"

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart [Buy]
(Slumberland)
Listen: "Everything With You"

Pictureplane
Dark Rift [Buy]
(Lovepump United)
Listen: "Goth Star"

Telepathe
Dance Mother [Buy]
(IAMSOUND)
Listen: "So Fine"

Tin Man
Cool Wave [Buy]
(Cheap)
Listen: "Constant Confusion"

Brock Van Wey
White Clouds Drift On and On [Buy]
(Echospace)
Listen: "White Clouds Drift On and On"

V/A
The Grandfather Paradox (Compiled and mixed by Henrik Schwarz / Âme / Dixon) [Buy] (BBE)
Listen: Cymande - "For Baby Oh"

Warpaint
Exquisite Corpse [Buy]
(Manimal Vinyl)
Listen: "Billie Holiday"

Washed Out
Life of Leisure [Buy]
(Mexican Summer)
Listen: "Feel It All Around"

WHY?
Eskimo Snow [Buy]
(Anticon)
Listen: "This Blackest Purse"

The xx
S/T [Buy]
(Young Turks)
Listen: "Basic Space"