Top 10 albums of 2009
10. Flaming Lips - Embryonic
9. Real Estate - Real Estate
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
7. White Denim - fits
6. Air - Love 2
5. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
4. HEALTH - Get Color
3. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
1. Girls - Album
Honorable mentions: Richard Swift - Atlantic Ocean, The XX - S/T, Japandroids - Post-Nothing, Brendan Benson - My Old, True Friend, Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band, Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor, Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Some favorite Songs of 2009:
The Next Village - Sleeping States
VCR - The xx
Hindsight - Built to Spill
Ghost Mouth - Girls
Die Slow - HEALTH
16th & Valencia - Devendra Banhart
Countdown(Sick for the Big Sun) - Phoenix
Lady Luck - Richard Swift
Garbage Day - Brendan Benson
Prison Girls - Neko Case
Re-issue:
Betty Davis - Is It Love or Desire?
(1976 recording - never issued until 2009)
Top of the Oughts:
1. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - WILCO
2. Funeral - Arcade Fire
3. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Flaming Lips
4. White Blood Cells - White Stripes
5. Thickfreakness - The Black Keys
