Best of 2009: #15 - #1

15. Noisettes – Wild Young Hearts

14. K’Naan - Troubadour

13. The Bird and the Bee – Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future

12. Peaches – I Feel Cream

11. Gossip – Music For Men

10. Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You

9. Metric - Fantasies

8. Sonic Youth - The Eternal

7. Wilco – Wilco (The Album)

6. Bat For Lashes – Two Suns

5. Fever Ray – Fever Ray

4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz

3. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

2. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone

1. St. Vincent - Actor

Best of 2009, Random & #25-16

BEST JAZZ ALBUM: Allen Toussaint – The Bright Mississippi

BEST METAL ALBUM: Mastodon – Crack The Skye

BEST PUNK ALBUM: Converge – Axe To Fall

Honorable Mention: The Decemberists – Hazards of Love


BEST ALBUMS PART ONE:

16. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros – Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
17. The Antlers - Hospice
18. Modest Mouse – No One’s First, And You’re Next EP
19. Blind Pilot – 3 Rounds and a Sound
20. The Swell Season – Strict Joy
21. Mike Doughty – Sad Man Happy Man
22. BLK JKS – After Robots
23. M. Ward – Hold Time
24. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse with David Lynch - Dark Night of the Soul
25. Thao and The Get Down Stay Down – Know Better Learn Faster