The Best Albums Of 2009

Top 50

1. Dance mother - TELEPATHE
2. Exploding head - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
3. The eternal - SONIC YOUTH
4. Fantasies - METRIC
5. Two suns - BAT FOR LASHES
6. It's blitz! - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
7. Merriweather Post Pavilion - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
8. Fever Ray - FEVER RAY
9. Horehound - THE DEAD WEATHER
10. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
11. A brief history of love - THE BIG PINK
12. Get color - HEALTH
13. Only built 4 Cuban linx… pt. II - RAEKWON
14. Embryonic - THE FLAMING LIPS
15. I'm going away - THE FIERY FURNACES
16. Marry me tonight - HTRK
17. Face control - HANDSOME FURS
18. Post-Nothing - JAPANDROIDS
19. Fits - WHITE DENIM
20. Popular songs - YO LA TENGO
21. Rated O - ONEIDA
22. Futuro - THE LOW FREQUENCY IN STEREO
23. Dragonslayer - SUNSET RUBDOWN
24. Six - THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION
25. Farm - DINOSAUR JR.
26. Dim light - GUN OUTFIT
27. Everything goes wrong - VIVIAN GIRLS
28. Rose city - VIVA VOCE
29. XX - THE XX
30. Tonight: Franz Ferdinand - FRANZ FERDINAND
31. Humbug - ARCTIC MONKEYS
32. There is no enemy - BUILT TO SPILL
33. Dos - WOODEN SHJIPS
34. Primary colours - THE HORRORS
35. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - PHOENIX
36. Lungs - FLORENCE + THE MACHINE
37. Radio wars - HOWLING BELLS
38. Years of refusal - MORRISSEY
39. The ecstatic - MOS DEF
40. Dark night of the soul - DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE
41. Balf quarry - MAGIK MARKERS
42. Sewn together - MEAT PUPPETS
43. Broken - SOULSAVERS
44. Monsters Of Folk - MONSTERS OF FOLK
45. Outer south - CONOR OBERST AND THE MYSTIC VALLEY BAND
46. Wilco (The album) - WILCO
47. The hazards of love - THE DECEMBERISTS
48. My old familiar friend - BRENDAN BENSON
49. Middle cyclone - NEKO CASE
50. Sometimes I wish we were an eagle - BILL CALLAHAN

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Actor - ST. VINCENT, Big sexy noise - BIG SEXY NOISE, I blame you - OBITS, King of jeans - PISSED JEANS, Tarot sport - FUCK BUTTONS, Love comes close - COLD CAVE, Phrazes for the young - JULIAN CASABLANCAS, Them Crooked Vultures - THEM CROOKED VULTURES, Swoon - SILVERSUN PICKUPS, In and out of control - THE RAVEONETTES, Bitte orca - DIRTY PROJECTORS, Logos - ATLAS SOUND, My maudlin career - CAMERA OBSCURA, Broken side of time - ALBERTA CROSS, Hot wax - GRANT HART, Now we can see - THE THERMALS, Spinnerette - SPINNERETTE, Til the casket drops - CLIPSE, Further complications - JARVIS COCKER, Kingdom of rust - DOVES, Baby darling doll face honey - BAND OF SKULLS, Infinite light - LIGHTNING DUST, A woman a man walked by - P.J. HARVEY & JOHN PARISH, Beware - BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, Petits fours - GRAND DUCHY, Backspacer - PEARL JAM, The century of self - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, 200 million thousand - BLACK LIPS, Travels with myself and another - FUTURE OF THE LEFT, Art Brut vs. Satan - ART BRUT, Ignore the ignorant - THE CRIBS, In this light and on this evening - EDITORS, Julian Plenti is… skyscraper - JULIAN PLENTI, Love hate and then there's you - THE VON BONDIES, Yours truly, the commuter - JASON LYTLE, Goodnight unknown - LOU BARLOW, Varshons - THE LEMONHEADS, The spirit of Apollo - N.A.S.A., I feel cream - PEACHES, Music for men - GOSSIP, Hush - ASOBI SEKSU, Dear John - LONEY DEAR, Two dancers - WILD BEASTS, Bird-brains - TUNE-YARDS, The airing of grievances - TITUS ANDRONICUS, Why there are mountains - CYMBALS EAT GUITARS, Love on an oil rig - THE VICTORIAN ENGLISH GENTLEMENS CLUB, Tentacles - CRYSTAL ANTLERS, Grace/Wastelands - PETER DOHERTY, Expressions - MUSIC GO MUSIC, Jewellery - MICACHU & THE SHAPES, All aboard future - THESE ARE POWERS, Nowhere forever - LOVE OF DIAGRAMS, Nests - SHE KEEPS BEES, After robots - BLK JKS, Hospice - THE ANTLERS, What will we be - DEVENDRA BANHART, Psychic chasms - NEON INDIAN, Dark days/Light years - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, Checkmate savage - PHANTOM BAND, Armonico hewa - OOIOO, Album - GIRLS, Veckatimest - GRIZZLY BEAR, Seek magic - MEMORY TAPES, Outside love - THE PINK MOUNTAINTOPS, Romanian names - JOHN VANDERSLICE, A balloon called moaning - THE JOY FORMIDABLE, Under and under - BLANK DOGS, Kingstonlogic 2.0 - TERRY LYNN, Guns don't kill people…Lazers do - MAJOR LAZER, Three EPs - SHACKLETON, Ambivalence Avenue - BIBIO, SyMptoMs - MORDANT MUSIC, Cassette city - LUSHLIFE, Gutter tactics - DALEK, Born like this - DOOM, The blueprint 3 - JAY-Z, BlaQKout - DJ QUIK & KURUPT, Blackroc - BLACKROC, Temporary pleasure - SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO, Begone dull care - JUNIOR BOYS, Manners - PASSION PIT, Walking on a dream - EMPIRE OF THE SUN, Rain Machine - RAIN MACHINE, Gorilla manor - LOCAL NATIVES, Harum scarum - JOE GIDEON AND THE SHARK, The sound the speed the light - MISSION OF BURMA, Trapped animal - THE SLITS, Down with liberty...Up with chains! - CHAIN AND THE GANG, Pine/Cross Dover - MASTERS OF REALITY, Goodnight Oslo - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE VENUS 3, Life and times - BOB MOULD, The real feel - SPIRAL STAIRS, Mo beauty - ALEC OUNSWORTH, The BQE - SUFJAN STEVENS, Noble beast - ANDREW BIRD, Through the devil softly - HOPE SANDOVAL & THE WARM INVENTIONS, Sun gangs - THE VEILS, Oh my God, Charlie Darwin - THE LOW ANTHEM, Dead Man’s Bones - DEAD MAN’S BONES, Bromst - DAN DEACON, Watch me fall - JAY REATARD, Post electric blues - IDLEWILD, Ashes grammar - A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW, 200 tons of bad luck - CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX, Earthly delights - LIGHTNING BOLT, Monoliths & dimensions - SUNN O))), Crack the skye - MASTADON, Dracula boots - KID CONGO AND THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS, The visitor - JIM O'ROURKE, Monster head room - GANGLIANS, To be still - ALELA DIANE, The life of the world to come - MOUNTAIN GOATS, Songs of shame - WOODS, The Smith Westerns - THE SMITH WESTERNS, Real Estate - REAL ESTATE, It’s frightening - WHITE RABBITS, Turning the mind - MAPS, Junior - ROYKSOPP, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum - KASABIAN, Only revolutions - BIFFY CLYRO, Wall of arms - THE MACCABEES, Tale to tell - MUMMERS, Kings & Queens - JAMIE T, Truelove's gutter - RICHARD HAWLEY, Far - REGINA SPECTOR, The crying light - ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, One fast move or I’m gone: Music from Kerouac’s Big Sur - JAY FARRAR & BENJAMIN GIBBARD, Journal for plague lovers - MANIC STREET PREACHERS, Klang - THE RAKES, Grey Britain - GALLOWS, I had the blues but I shook them loose - BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB, Quicken the heart - MAXIMO PARK, The resistance - MUSE, No line on the horizon - U2, Working on a dream - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Together through life - BOB DYLAN, Welcome to Mali - AMADOU & MARIAM, Imidiwan: Companions - TINARIWEN, Warm heart of Africa - THE VERY BEST, JJ no2 - JJ, Summertime! - THE DRUMS, No one's first and you're next - MODEST MOUSE, Enter The Vaselines - THE VASELINES.