List of tracks awarded Pitchfork Best New Track in 2009
The online music magazine Pitchfork Media began awarding songs Best New Track (BNT) in its track reviews in 2009 as part of its Best New Music section. A total of 98 tracks, which the source reviewed album-only cuts, singles, remixes, a-sides and b-sides of singles and so forth, were given the title in its first year. All BNTs have a rating of 8/10 or higher, although not all tracks awarded 8/10 were titled BNT. Only two tracks were awarded a perfect 10/10 score in 2009: "While You Wait for the Others" (Grizzly Bear) and "What Would I Want? Sky" (Animal Collective). This list does not contain tracks that were included on Pitchfork's best of year lists but did not receive BNT.
Track |
Artist |
Rating |
Date of review |
Album |
|---|---|---|---|---|
"Knotty Pine" |
Dirty Projectors and David Byrne |
8 |
January 15 |
Dark Was the Night |
"Sunlight" |
tUnE-yArDs |
8 |
February 23 |
Bird-Brains |
"The Breeze/My Baby Cries" |
Bill Callahan (original song by Kath Bloom) |
8 |
February 25 |
Loving Takes This Course |
"Black Lake" |
Real Estate |
8 |
Real Estate |
|
"My Girls" |
Animal Collective |
9 |
February 27 |
Merriweather Post Pavilion |
"Wind Phoenix" |
Cymbals Eat Guitars |
8 |
March 2 |
Why There Are Mountains |
"Young Hearts Spark Fire" |
Japandroids |
9 |
March 4 |
Post-Nothing |
"Glass" |
Bat for Lashes |
8 |
March 5 |
Two Suns |
"1901" |
Phoenix |
8 |
March 8 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
"Skeletons" |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
8 |
March 13 |
It's Blitz! |
"Is She There?" |
Nodzzz |
8 |
March 18 |
Nodzzz |
"Rain On" |
Woods |
8 |
March 27 |
Songs of Shame |
"It Gets Your Body Movin'" |
Suckers |
8 |
March 31 |
- |
"Daniel" |
Bat for Lashes |
9 |
April 6 |
Two Suns |
"Die Slow" |
Health |
8 |
April 10 |
Get Color |
"my life, my swag" |
jj |
8 |
April 13 |
"jj n° 1" |
"Stillness Is the Move" |
Dirty Projectors |
9 |
April 16 |
Bitte Orca |
"Freeway" |
Kurt Vile |
8 |
April 17 |
Constant Hitmaker |
"Raindrops" |
Basement Jaxx |
8 |
April 24 |
Scars |
"Lisztomania" |
Phoenix |
8 |
April 27 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
"Young Adult Friction" |
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart |
8 |
April 29 |
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart |
"Velvet" (Gang Gang Dance remix) |
Remix of a song originally by The Big Pink |
8 |
May 4 |
A Brief History of Love (Limited edition) |
"I Want You to Know" |
Dinosaur Jr. |
8 |
May 7 |
Farm |
"Moth's Wings" |
Passion Pit |
8 |
May 11 |
Manners |
"Two Weeks" |
Grizzly Bear |
9 |
May 13 |
Veckatimest |
"Version (Test Mixxx)" |
patten |
8 |
May 14 |
- |
"While You Wait for the Others" |
Grizzly Bear |
10 |
May 22 |
Veckatimest |
"Chi Don't Dance" |
BBU |
8 |
Fear of a Clear Channel Planet |
|
"Northern Lights" |
Bowerbirds |
8 |
May 26 |
Upper Air |
"Bode" |
Julianna Barwick |
8 |
May 27 |
Florine |
"Dream City" |
Free Energy |
8 |
May 28 |
Stuck on Nothing |
"Divinations" |
Mastodon |
9 |
May 29 |
Crack the Skye |
"It Ain't Gonna Save Me" |
Jay Reatard |
8 |
June 1 |
Watch Me Fall |
"Psychic City (Voodoo City)" |
Y△CHT |
9 |
June 2 |
See Mystery Lights |
"Love the Nite Away" (Tiedye remix) |
Remix of a track originally by DJ Kaos |
9 |
June 4 |
- |
"Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" (Wallpaper. remix) |
Remix of a song originally by Das Racist |
8 |
June 8 |
- |
"Dreamer" |
Tiny Vipers |
8 |
June 15 |
Life on Earth |
"So Insane" |
Discovery |
8 |
June 17 |
LP |
"Valiant Brave" |
Ganglians |
8 |
June 18 |
Monster Head Room |
"Beggar's Bowl" |
Polvo |
8 |
June 24 |
In Prism |
"Tunguska" |
Cymbals Eat Guitars |
8 |
June 26 |
...And the Hazy Sea/Tunguska |
"Be My Girl" |
Smith Westerns |
8 |
June 29 |
The Smith Westerns |
"Keep It Goin' Louder" |
Major Lazer featuring Nina Sky and Ricky Blaze |
9 |
June 30 |
Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do |
"Coat of Arms" |
Nosaj Thing |
8 |
July 6 |
Drift |
"Ramona" |
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart |
8 |
July 7 |
"Young Adult Friction / Ramona" |
"Goth Star" |
Pictureplane |
8 |
July 9 |
Dark Rift |
"[...]" |
jj |
8 |
July 10 |
jj n° 2 |
"I Am Leaving" |
Blue Roses |
8 |
Blue Roses |
|
"Vibrationz" |
Javelin |
8 |
July 13 |
Jamz n Jemz |
"Big Wave Rider" |
Rainbow Bridge |
8 |
July 15 |
- |
"You Saved My Life" |
Cass McCombs |
9 |
July 16 |
Catacombs |
"Warm Heart of Africa" |
The Very Best featuring Ezra Koenig |
8 |
July 17 |
Warm Heart of Africa |
"Walkabout" |
Atlas Sound featuring Noah Lennox |
8 |
July 20 |
Logos |
"Way U Make Me Feel" |
Guido |
8 |
"Orchestral Lab/Way U Make Me Feel" |
|
"Silver Trembling Hands" |
The Flaming Lips |
8 |
July 21 |
Embryonic |
"Space Ex" |
Blue Daisy featuring LaNote |
8 |
July 23 |
- |
"Seasun" |
Delorean |
9 |
July 24 |
Ayrton Senna |
"Deadbeat Summer" |
Neon Indian |
9 |
Psychic Chasms |
|
"Digidesign" |
Joker |
8 |
July 27 |
"Digidesign/You Don't Know What Love Is" |
"Sunshine" |
John Talabot |
9 |
July 29 |
- |
"Here to Fall" |
Yo La Tengo |
8 |
July 30 |
Popular Songs |
"Quitters Raga" |
Gold Panda |
8 |
July 31 |
- |
"Dominos" |
The Big Pink |
8 |
August 4 |
A Brief History of Love |
"K&G Beat" |
Floating Points |
8 |
August 5 |
- |
"House of Flying Daggers" |
Raekwon ft. Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, and Method Man |
8 |
August 6 |
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II |
"Bay of Pigs" |
Destroyer |
9 |
August 7 |
Bay of Pigs |
"Despicable Dogs" |
Small Black |
8 |
August 12 |
Small Black EP |
"Island, IS" |
Volcano Choir |
9 |
August 14 |
Unmap |
"Feel It All Around" |
Washed Out |
9 |
August 25 |
Life of Leisure |
"Hyph Mngo" |
Joy Orbison |
9 |
August 27 |
"Hyph Mngo/Wet Look" |
"10 Bricks" |
Raekwon |
8 |
August 31 |
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II |
"All Yr Songs" |
Diamond Rings |
8 |
September 2 |
Special Affections |
"I Felt Stupid" |
The Drums |
8 |
September 16 |
Summertime! |
"The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future" |
Los Campesinos! |
8 |
September 21 |
Romance Is Boring |
"Shelia" |
Atlas Sound |
8 |
September 22 |
Logos |
"Surf Solar" (7" edit) |
[...] Buttons |
8 |
September 29 |
Tarot Sport |
"11th Dimension" |
Julian Casablancas |
8 |
October 1 |
Phrazes for the Young |
"Lust for Life" |
Girls |
9 |
October 2 |
Album |
"Rollerskate" (radio edit) |
Matias Aguayo |
8 |
October 5 |
Ay Ay Ay |
"Baby Can't Stop" (Aeroplane remix) |
Remix of a song by Lindstrøm and Christabelle |
8 |
October 8 |
Real Life Is No Cool (bonus disc) |
"Shine Blockas" |
Big Boi featuring Gucci Mane |
9 |
October 14 |
Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty |
"IRM" |
Charlotte Gainsbourg |
8 |
October 15 |
IRM |
"Monster Island" |
Claude VonStroke |
8 |
October 26 |
Bird Brain |
"Songs Remind Me of You" |
Annie |
8 |
October 27 |
Don't Stop |
"Crown on the Ground" |
Sleigh Bells |
9 |
October 29 |
Treats |
"Havin' My Baby" |
Think About Life |
8 |
October 30 |
Family |
"Empire State of Mind" |
Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys |
8 |
November 4 |
The Blueprint 3 |
"Watching the Planets" |
The Flaming Lips |
9 |
November 5 |
Embryonic |
"Close Chorus" |
A Sunny Day in Glasgow |
8 |
November 6 |
Ashes Grammar |
"Love Cry" |
Four Tet |
8 |
November 9 |
There Is Love in You |
"Little Dreamer" (Jones Remix) |
Remix of a song by Future Islands featuring Victoria Legrand |
8 |
November 11 |
Post Office Wave Chapel |
"A New Chance" (The Juan MacLean remix) |
Remix of a song by The Tough Alliance |
8 |
November 16 |
Prison Break |
"Spring" (Air France remix) |
Remix of a song by Saint Etienne |
8 |
November 17 |
London Conversations: The Best of Saint Etienne |
"When I'm With You" |
Best Coast |
8 |
November 19 |
Crazy for You |
"Norway" |
Beach House |
9 |
November 20 |
Teen Dream |
"What Would I Want? Sky" |
Animal Collective |
10 |
November 23 |
Fall Be Kind |
"Take It In" |
Hot Chip |
8 |
November 25 |
One Life Stand |
"When I Look at You" |
Emalkay |
8 |
November 30 |
- |
See also
- List of albums awarded Pitchfork Best New Album