Top 77 Albums of 2009

  ARTIST ALBUM LABEL
1 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavillion Domino
2 Grizzly Bear Veckatimest Warp
3 Fever Ray Fever Ray Mute
4 Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Glassnote
5 Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca Domino
6 The xx xx Young Turks
7 Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! Interscope
8 Phantogram Phantogram [EP] Self-released/Ce
9 St. Vincent Actor 4AD
10 Lookbook Wild at Heart Self-released
11 Bibio Ambivalence Avenue Warp
12 P.O.S Never Better Rhymesayers
13 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Slumberland
14 The Flaming Lips Embryonic Warner Brothers
15 Atlas Sound Logos Kranky
16 Vampire Hands Hannah in the Mansion St. Ives
17 Japandroids Post Nothing Polyvinyl
18 Neko Case Middle Cyclone ANTI-
19 Handsome Furs Face Control Sub Pop
20 Brother Ali Us Rhymesayers
21 Dinosaur Jr Farm Jagjaguwar
22 Metric Fantasies Self-released
23 Bat For Lashes Two Suns Astralwerks
24 The Raveonettes In and Out of Control Vice
25 Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport ATP
26 Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer Jagjaguwar
27 Yo La Tengo Popular Songs Matador
28 El Perro del Mar Love Is Not Pop The Control Group
29 Here We Go Magic Here We Go Magic Western Vinyl
30 Wilco Wilco (The Album) Nonesuch
31 Deerhunter      Rainwater Cassette Exchange [EP] Kranky
32 Sonic Youth The Eternal Matador
33 Girls Album True Panther Sounds
34 Zoo Animal Young Blood Self-released
35 Black Moth Super Rainbow Eating Us Graveface
36 The Big Pink A Brief History of Love 4AD
37 Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy Matador
38 Doom Born Like This Lex
39 Kings of Convenience Declaration of Dependence Astralwerks
40 Passion Pit Manners Frenchkiss
41 Red Pens Reasons Self-released/Grain Belt
42 Anni Rossi Rockwell 4AD
43 Why? Eskimo Snow anticon.
44 Mos Def The Ecstatic Downtown
45 Eyedea & Abilities By The Throat Rhymesayers
46 The King Khan & BBQ Show Invisible Girl In The Red
47 Future Of The Left Travels With Myself And Another 4AD
48 A Sunny Day in Glasgow Ashes Grammar Mis Ojos Discos
49 Kill The Vultures Ecce Beast Self-released
50 Julie Doiron I Can Wonder What You Did With You Jagjaguwar
51 Gay Witch Abortion Maverick Learning Curve
52 Black Lips 200 Million Thousand Vice
53 Mayer Hawthorne A Strange Arrangement Stones Throw
54 Neon Indian Psychic Chasms Lefse
55 The Chambermaids Down in the Berries [EP] Modern Radio
56 Mount Eerie Wind's Poem P.W. Elverum & Son
57 The Antlers Hospice Frenchkiss
58 Wild Beasts Two Dancers Domino
59 Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle Drag City
60 tUnE-yArDs BiRd-BrAiNs Marriage/4AD
61 Andrew Bird Noble Beast Fat Possum
62 Gospel Gossip Dreamland [EP] Guilt Ridden Pop
63 Ramona Falls Intuit Barsuk
64 Yacht See Mystery Lights DFA
65 Antony & The Johnsons The Crying Light Secretly Canadian
66 PJ Harvey & John Parish A Woman a Man Walked By Island
67 Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall Matador
68 Magnolia Electric Co. Josephine Secretly Canadian
69 Daughters of the Sun Rings Modern Radio
70 Heartless Bastards The Mountain Fat Possum
71 Dan Deacon Bromst Carpark
72 Lucy Michelle & the Velvet Lapelles Special Party Time For Everyone Self-released
73 Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zer Up From Below Vagrant
74 Thee Oh Sees Help In The Red
75 Woods Songs of Shame Woodsist
76 Cass McCombs Catacombs Domino
77 Themselves CrownsDown anticon.