- [8.8] Neko Case: Middle Cyclone
- [8.8] Isis: Wavering Radiant
- [8.8] Fever Ray: Fever Ray
- [8.7] Wild Beasts: Two Dancers
- [8.7] Tortoise: Beacons of Ancestorship
- [8.7] Russian Circles: Geneva
- [8.7] Raekwon: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...Pt. II
- [8.7] Metric: Fantasies
- [8.7] Mastodon: Crack the Skye
- [8.7] Cymbals Eat Guitars: Why There Are Mountains
- [8.6] Various: Dark Was the Night
- [8.6] The Veils: Sun Gangs
- [8.6] Sun O))): Monoliths and Dimensions
- [8.6] Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
- [8.5] PJ Harvey and John Parish: A Woman a Man Walked By
- [8.5] maudlin of the Well: Part the Second
- [8.5] Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca
- [8.5] Converge: Axe to Fall
- [8.5] Bill Callahan: Sometimes I Wish We Were Eagles
- [8.5] Bibio: Ambivalance Avenue
- [8.5] Baroness: Blue Record
- [8.5] Art Brut: Art Brus Vs. Satan
- [8.5] Absu: Absu
- [8.4] The Very Best: Warm Heart of Africa
- [8.4] Pyramids: Pyramids with Nadja
- [8.4] Mew: No More Stories Are Told Today...
- [8.4] jj: jj n° 2
- [8.4] Heartless Bastards: The Mountain
- [8.4] Dinosaur Jr.: Farm
- [8.4] Dan Deacon: Bromst
- [8.4] Built to Spill: There Is No Enemy
- [8.4] Bat for Lashes: Two Suns
- [8.3] YACHT: See Mystery Lights
- [8.3] The Horrors: Primary Colours
- [8.3] Pelican: What We All Come to Need
- [8.3] Obituary: The Darkest Day
- [8.3] Mos Def: The Ecstatic
- [8.3] Girls: Album
- [8.3] Caspian: Tertia
- [8.3] Camera Obscura: My Maudlin Career
- [8.3] Bloodhorse: Horizoner
- [8.3] Antony and the Johnsons: The Crying Light
- [8.2] The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
- [8.2] Sonic Youth: The Eternal
- [8.2] Modest Mouse: No One's First and You're Next
- [8.2] Kylesa: Static Tensions
- [8.2] Handsome Furs: Face Control
- [8.2] Black Crowes: Before the Frost/Until the Freeze
- [8.1] Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz!
- [8.1] Tombs: Winterhours
- [8.1] Morrissey: Years of Refusal
- [8.1] Manic Street Preachers: Journal for Plague Lovers
- [8.1] Lightning Dust: Infinite Light
- [8.1] DOOM: Born Like This
- [8.1] DM Stith: Heavy Ghost
- [8.1] And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: Century of Self
- [8.0] The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
- [8.0] Loney, Dear: Dear John
- [8.0] Katatonia: Night is the New Day
- [8.0] Alice in Chains: Black Gives Way to Blue
- [7.9] The xx: The xx
- [7.9] Röyksopp: Junior
- [7.9] Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms
- [7.9] Dananananaykroyd: Hey Everyone
- [7.9] Bear in Heaven: Beast Rest Forth Mouth
- [7.9] Andrew Bird: Noble Beast
- [7.8] The Phantom Band: Checkmate Savage
- [7.8] The Dead Weather: Horehound
- [7.8] Swan Lake: Enemy Mine
- [7.8] St. Vincent: Actor
- [7.8] M. Ward: Hold Time
- [7.8] Jonsi and Alex: Riceboy Sleeps
- [7.8] Future of the Left: Travels With Myself and Another
- [7.8] Doves: Kingdom of Rust
- [7.8] Arctic Monkeys: Humbug
- [7.7] Them Crooked Vultures: Them Crooked Vultures
- [7.7] The Derek Trucks Band: Already Free
- [7.7] The Decemberists: The Hazards of Love
- [7.7] Slayer: World Painted Blood
- [7.7] Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
- [7.7] Monsters of Folk: Monsters of Folk
- [7.6] The Soundtrack of Our Lives: Communion
- [7.6] The Mars Volta: Octahedron
- [7.6] Soap&Skin: Lovetune for Vacuum
- [7.6] Patrick Watson: Wooden Arms
- [7.6] Omar Rodriguez-Lopez: Old Money
- [7.6] Irepress: Sol Eye See I
- [7.6 The Arusha Accord: The Echo Verses
- [7.5] The Most Serene Republic: ...And the Ever Expanding Universe
- [7.5] Nile: Those Whom the Gods Detest
- [7.5] Duncan Sheik: Whisper House
- [7.5] Cursive: Mama, I'm Swollen
- [7.4] The Fiery Furnaces: I'm Going Away
- [7.4] Sufjan Stevens: The BQE
- [7.4] Porcupine Tree: The Incident
- [7.4] Passion Pit: Manners
- [7.4] Papercuts: You Can Have What You Want
- [7.4] Au Revoir Simone: Still Night, Still Light
- [7.4] A Storm of Light/Nadja: Primitive North
- [7.3] Wavves: Wavves
- [7.3] Sian Alice Group: Troubled, Shaken, Etc.
- [7.3] Múm: Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know
- [7.3] Moderat: Moderat
- [7.3] Great Lake Swimmers: Lost Channels
- [7.3] Behemoth: Evangelion
- [7.2] White Rabbits: It's Frightening
- [7.2] My Dying Bride: The Lies I Sire
- [7.2] Mirah: (A)spera
- [7.2] Matt & Kim: Grand
- [7.2] If These Trees Could Talk: Above the Earth, Below the Sky
- [7.2] Every Time I Die: New Junk Aesthetic
- [7.1] Om: God is Good
- [7.1] Health: Get Color
- [7.1] Bon Iver: Bloodbank [EP]
- [7.0] The Black Dahlia Murder: Deflorate
- [7.0] A.C. Newman: Get Guilty
Sunday, December 13, 2009
The best albums of 2009
Okay, we're done. I now present to you the best albums of 2009:
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Spectacular listing! The amount of work that went into compiling this must have been mind numbing. Your list is an answer to iTunes inability to sort songs for year released. I noticed you didn't include Califone's "All My Friends Are Funeral Singers"; omission, or did it not make the cut?
ReplyDeleteThank you for the kind words. What you're looking at is a year's worth of work -- a labor of love.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I am not familiar with the Califone album. I'll have to check it out.
Very good list. Especially congrats to have the courage in putting asiwyfa up there. It is also highly ranked in my list though not in top 3.
ReplyDeleteYou could also have included Pertego - Hjarta into the list. Please check it if possible. Great post rock band from Italy. Unfortunately their cd is only available via paypal, but hey who cares :)