2008/2009 has been giving us some interesting sounds from brooklyn. Experimental rock, Electronic music with world music influences and nu disco has been stirring up the music scene. Last year it was Hercules And Love affair that wowed the  critics with their house music influenced nu-disco album. So did TV on the radio with their deadly catchy ”Dear Science”. Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser of MGMT had everyone whistling on ”Time to pretend”. When  Gang Gang Dance and their ”Saint dymphna” hit the shops late 2008 it showed a more experimental side to the scene. With rough, dance fuelled, experimental music, full of african and asian musical references,  they gave us a taste of what to come.

This year the brooklyn bunch has stepped it up another notch by giving us some of the greatest albums so far in 2009. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and “its Blitz!” surprised many with a new direction than their earlier stuff. But it was another band that got the headlines early 2009.  Animal Collectives ”Merriweather Post Pavillion” made critics all over the world go crazy. A mix of psychedelia, rave, world music and grandiose experimental rock made these epic 55 minutes the favourite for the album of the year awards

But my own favourite so far is Dirty Projectors.  Their new album,  ”Bitte Orca” gives you everything we can ask for in an album. Its a rollercoaster ride of interesting composition and contrasts in ”Usefull Chambers”,  beautifull balladry in ”Two Doves” and dancy, african beats and chants in ”Remade Horizon”. The quirky and ever so catchy “Stillness is the move” imediately digs its way into the back of our mind, and stays there. Dave Longstreths unique voice guides us through the record in contrast to Amber Coffman and Susanna Waiche wonderfull harmonies and before you know it the last bleeps in “Flourescent Half Dome” finishes the goodness.

And if you ad to it all, brooklyn band Grizzly Bear and their new album “Veckatimest”, which is up there with the best, you know that the brooklyn scene is the one to keep an eye on for the moment.