Let yourself be sucked into Florence’s whirlwind world and you won’t regret it. The Twilight Saga only wishes it was this epic. But beneath all this Gothic polish lie tunes that are just unmistakably excellent, made all the more wondrous considering this is a debut album ( Cosmic Love may even be my track of the year). Lungs positively glitters with songs as dark and rich as the finest chocolate fudge cake, whilst her enigmatic Machine provide backing instrumentation with more layers than you’d wear to brave the British winter. Weird, wild and wonderful, flame-haired Florence Welch could well be the Kate Bush of the Noughties. It’s also the only year where I managed full-length reviews of all the entries on my list (not that this matters much to you, what with Teentoday’s archive being down) and it was the year I wondered what the hell to do with The Fame Monster… and I’m still not entirely satisfied with the result! This was the year of electro, the year of another Scandinavian invasion on my charts and where the only bloke on the list hides in the shadows of Elly Jackson’s quiff. I don’t really have much to say about this list other than… ta-da! Here are my Top 11 Albums Of 2009!
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