Thursday, December 31, 2009

Best Albums Of 2009

When it was all said & done I had 268 albums that I could call "the best music of the year", but I'm not going to list 268 albums. I will do ....(random number off the top of my head) 165. Of those 165 you will probably know zero. I highly recommend that immediately following the reading of this list that you head straight out to your local record merchant and purchase all, some, or at least one of these albums. I will know if you don't.

165) Joe Pernice - It Feels So Good When I Stop
164) Odawas - The Blue Depths
163) Gliss - Devotion Implosion
162) Norah Jones - The Fall
161) UUVVWWZ - s/t
160) Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love
159) The Love Language - s/t
158) The Legends - Over And Over
157) Tap Tap - On My Way
156) Miike Snow - s/t
155) Calvin Harris - Ready For The Weekend
154) Inara George - Accidental Experimental
153) Real Estate - s/t
152) The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away
151) Kings Of Convenience - Declaration Of Dependence
150) Pete Doherty - Grace/Wastelands
149) Apostle Of Hustle - Eats Darkness
148) Grooms - Rejoicer
147) Tim Exile - Listening Tree
146) Firekites - The Bowery
145) Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
144) Julian Plenti - Is... Skyscraper
143) Ape School - s/t
142) Batrider - Why We Can't Be Friends
141) Simone White - Yakiimo
140) Matthew Halsall - Colour Yes
139) Erin McKeown - Hundreds Of Lions
138) Grammatics - s/t
137) In The Shadow Of The Mountain - s/t
136) Lightning Dust - Infinite Light
135) Nosaj Thing - Drift
134) Mike Bones - A Fool For Everyone
133) Hallelujah The Hills - Colonial Drones
132) Fol Chen - Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made
131) Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band - s/t
130) Jookabox - Dead Zone Boys
129) DD/MM/YYYY - Black Square
128) Grand Archives - Keep In Mind Frankenstein
127) Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
126) Metric - Fantasies
125) The Show Is The Rainbow - Wet Fist
124) Florence & The Machine - Lungs
123) MV + EE With The Golden Road - Barn Nova
122) Like Bells - s/t
121) Panther - Entropy
120) Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
119) Apse - Climb Up
118) Glass Ghost - Idol Omen
117) A Mountain Of One - Institute Of Joy
116) Vic Chesnutt - At The Cut
115) The Lovely Feathers - Fantasy Of The Lot
114) Wilco - s/t
113) Passion Pit - Manners
112) King Midas Sound - Waiting For You
111) Bowerbirds - Upper Air
110) Islands - Vapours
109) Music Go Music - Expressions
108) The Raveonettes - In And Out Of Control
107) Speck Mountain - Some Sweet Relief
106) Russian Circles - Geneva
105) Hasikara Smile - Elephant Gun
104) Castanets - Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts
103) Kid Harpoon - Once
102) Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below
101) Kenneth Pattengale - Speak!
100) The Wilderness Of Manitoba - Hymsn Of Love & Spirits
99) Mimicking Birds - s/t
98) Dodos - Time To Die
97) Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
96) Dawes - North Hills
95) Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
94) Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young
93) Alcoholic Faith Mission - 421 Wythe Avenue
92) Doveman - The Conformist
91) Magneta Lane - Gambling With God
90) Sufjan Stevens - The BQE
89) Early Days Miners - The Treatment
88) Shout Out Out Out Out - Reintegration Time
87) CFCF - Continent
86) Shannon Wright - Honeybee Girls
85) Idlewild - Post Electric Blues
84) Molina & Johnson - s/t
83) Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Solar Gambling
82) Harlem Shakes - Technicolor Health
81) A Camp - Colonia
80) Lisandro Aristumuño - Las Crónicas Del Viento
79) Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
78) Sweet Trip - You Will Never Know Why
77) Beads - s/t
76) Zak Sally - Fear Of Song
75) Eau Claire Memorial Jazz I * Justin Vernon - A Decade With Duke
74) Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
73) Foreign Born - Person To Person
72) Cryptacize - Mythomania
71) tUnE-YaRdS - BiRd-BrAiNs
70) Sleepy Sun - Embrace
69) Nurses - Apple's Acres
68) Deastro - Moondagger
67) Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy
66) The Bird And The Bee - Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future
65) Clark - Totems Flare
64) The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms
63) Fool's Gold - s/t
62) jj - jj no˚2
61) Dead Man's Bones - s/t
60) Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
59) James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
58) The Voluntary Butler Scheme - At Breakfast, Dinner, Tea
57) Atlas Sound - Logos
56) Candy Claws - In The Dream Of The Sea Life
55) Tortoise - Beacons Of Ancestorship
54) Reverie Sound Revue - s/t
53) Zoos Of Berlin - Taxis
52) Extra Golden - Thank You Very Quickly
51) Vetiver - Tight Knit
50) Shannon Stephens - The Breadwinner
49) Monsters Of Folk - s/t
48) Thao Nguyen - Know Better Learn Faster
47) Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
46) The Horrors - Primary Colors
45) The Swimmers - People Are Soft
44) Mastodon - Crack The Skye
43) Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist
42) White Rabbits - It's Frightening
41) Jogger - This Great Pressure
40) St. Vincent - Actor
39) Jack Peñate - Everything Is New
38) Cass McCombs - Catacombs
37) Language-Arts - Where Were You In The Wild
36) Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away
35) Cougar - Patriot
34) Forest Magic - Is Energy
33) Patients - s/t
32) Peter Bjorn And John - Living Thing
31) fun. - Aim And Ignite
30) Tyondai Braxton - Central Market
29) Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be
28) The Clientele - Bonfires On The Heath
27) Ramona Falls - Intuit
26) The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

The TOP 25 of 2009

25) Volcano Choir - Unmap
25

24) Boy Crisis - Tulipomania
24

23) Here We Go Magic - s/t
23

22) Charles Spearin - The Happiness Project
22

21) The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love
21

20) The Invisible - s/t
20

19) Hjaltalín - Terminal
19

18) Timber Timbre - s/t
18

17) Le Loup - Family
17

16) Sholi - s/t
16

15) Chris Garneau - El Radio
15

14) BLK JKS - After Robots
14

13) The Long Lost - s/t
13

12) Wave Machines - Wave If You're Really There
12

11) Girls - Album
11

10) Pomegranates - Everybody Come Outside!
10

9) Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
09

8) The Most Serene Republic - ...And The Ever Expanding Universe
08

7) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
07

6) Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
06

5) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
05

4) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
04

3) Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
03

2) Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
01

1) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
02


I just switched #1 and #2 on the fly. That's how indecisive I was. If you ask me tomorrow this list could be completely different. Take it for what it is. A list. That's it.

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