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”