The best albums of 2009

Okay, we're done. I now present to you the best albums of 2009:

[9.2] Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion

[9.1] And So I Watch You From Afar: And So I Watch You From Afar

[9.0] Japandroids: Post Nothing

[8.9] The Antlers: Hospice

[8.9] Atlas Sound: Logos

And the rest:

• [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

Best metal albums of 2009

1. Isis: Wavering Radiant

2. Mastodon: Crack the Skye

3. Sun O))): Monoliths and Dimensions

4. Converge: Axe to Fall

5. Baroness: Blue Record

The rest:

6. Absu: Absu
7. Pyramids: Pyramids with Nadja
8. Obituary: The Darkest Day
9. Bloodhorse: Horizoner
10. Kylesa: Static Tensions
11. Tombs: Winterhours
12. Katatonia: Night is the New Day
13. Slayer: World Painted Blood
14. Irepress: Sol Eye See I
15. The Arusha Accord: The Echo Verses
16. Nile: Those Whom the Gods Detest
17. A Storm of Light/Nadja: Primitive North
18. Behemoth: Evangelion
19. My Dying Bride: The Lies I Sire
20. Every Time I Die: New Junk Aesthetic
21. The Black Dahlia Murder: Deflorate

Latest adjustments to rankings

I've made some adjustments to the rankings:

Demotions:

• maudlin of the Well: Part the Second from 9.0 to 8.5
• The xx: The xx from 8.5 to 7.9
• The Most Serene Republic: ...And the Ever Expanding Universe from 8.3 to 7.5
• The Fiery Furnaces: I'm Going Away from 8.1 to 7.4

Promotions:

• Cymbals Eat Guitars: Why There Are Mountains from 8.3 to 8.7