Best Albums Of 2009

IN NO ORDER
Bitte Orca - Dirty Projectors
Help - Thee Oh Sees
There Is No Enemy - Built To Spill
Embryonic - Flaming Lips
Yakuza Heart Attack II - Yakuza Heart Attack
Now We Can See - The Thermals
Skirting The Edge - Jandek
New Clouds - White Rainbow
Songs Of Shame - Woods
Wind's Poem - Mount Eerie

1) Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
2) Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
3) Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
4) Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
5) Japandroids - Post-Nothing
6) kidnapkin - Hush now...
7) Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
8) P.O.S. - Never Better
9) Why? - Eskimo Snow
10) Baroness - The Blue Album

In no particular order really and there's much more I guess, but these ten were the most listened to.

Toro Y Moi - Causers Of This
Antipop Consortium - Fluorescent Black
Polvo - In Prism
Flying Lotus - L.A. EP 3 X 3
Gold Panda - Miyamae/Before/Quitter's Raga
Young Widows - Old Wounds
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Thavius Beck - Dialogue
Themselves - CrownsDown
Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends

(And of course Bitte Orca, Psychic Chasms, Fall Be Kind, Ambivalence Avenue, Eating Us etc...)

Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (album of the year)
Ameseours- self-titled (most underrated)
Whitetree- Cloudland (best left field album)
Fuck Buttons- Tarot Sport (best super-hyped album)
Engineers- Three Fact Fader
Baroness- Blue Album
Japandroids- Post-Nothing (best debut)
The Big Pink- A Brief History of Love
Universal Studios Florida- Ocean Sunbirds
Fever Ray- Self-titled
Mastodon- Crack the Skye
Passion Pit- Manners

Gbacardi07 :
Good lists so far. However, while I love Tobacco's Fucked up Friends, it was in 2008.
Haha. Maths is for nerds, but I accept this rectification. Replace it by Lucky Dragons - Dream Island Laughing Language, or Mary Ann Hobbs - Wild Angels (is Dubstep gorgeous?)

Gbacardi07
1) Baroness - Blue Album

This particular album could be my greatest disappointment...

Ten Albums

1>the pAper chAse - someday this could all be yours
2>Necro Deathmort - This Beat is Necrotronic
3>Bell Orchestre - As Seen Through WIndows
4>These Are Powers - All Aboard Future
5>Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
6>tUnE-yArDs - BiRd-BrAiNs
7>Fuck Buttons - tarot sport
8>Dan Deacon - Bromst
9>Beak> - Beak>
10>Whisper Room - Birch White


Ten random other non-album type stuff
1>Deckard - The Future World EP
2>Forest Swords - Fjree Feather EP
3>Azat -Make A Record Of Your Voice And Send It To Him MIX
4>Nadsroic - Room Mist EP
5>At Last an Atlas - Ships Leaving (split)
6>Faux-Hoax - Your Friends Will Carry You Home EP
7>Miwak Twelve- Various Artists (Hymen)
8>Dark Was The Night - Various Artists
9>Def Jux Presents 4 - 2009 Label Sampler
10>Three Mile Pilot - Planets/Clouds 7"

Best Podcasts
1>This Is Hell
2>Creative Screenwriting

nibbleyourears said:
I like:

DP - Bitte Orca
The Antlers - Hospice
Atlas Sound - Logos
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Here We Go Magic - Here We Go Magic
Washed Out - Life of Leisure
The xx - xx
AC - MPP
Girls - Album
Why? - Eskimo Snow
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
My list is better.

here are the albums i'll think of whenever i think of 2009. not really any order, different degrees of 'favorite'.

Emeralds - What Happened (this album was a milestone in my appreciation of sound/music)
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country (again, this and emeralds opened a whole new world of music to me)
Passion Pit - Manners (Folds In Your Hands is my song of the year)
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (i chugged haterrade on this for so long... but one day it just revealed itself to me, like the ugly girl taking off her glasses and letting down her hair for the first time. deserved all the hype IMO)
Nosaj Thing - Drift (flying lotus absolutely blew my mind last year, but he didn't release anything officially this year, but this guy carried the torch for him through '09 just fine)
Here We Go Magic - s/t (definitely my sleeper fav of '09. such an unassuming little record that i played the shit out of without even realizing until late in the game)
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue (wasn't a huge fan of his older records at all, and thought this was too forced of a style change at first... but it grew on me hard)
Thrice - Beggars (totally thought i had outgrown these guys, especially after the weak 'experimental' phase with their 4 element EPs. checked this out hesitantly and discovered a warm and intimate, yet raw record. like finding out your friend from HS who went off to some weird college is still a great dude.)
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (i have to admit that i really can't stand any of their previous records, but watching them play these songs live on a gorgeous, warm summer night in downtown Chicago ignited something within. another overhyped album that deserves to be overhyped IMO)

some others that had a lesser impact but i still played a good bit:

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (was there anyone not bumping this?)
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavvy (see above)
Atlas Sound - Logos (this was like my favorite record of all time for about a week and i've barely touched it since. still great though)
White Rainbow - New Clouds (if this had been released earlier and i'd had more time with it, it probs would have cracked the above list)
Black Dice - Repo (mostly because it got me into older BD, but i always threw this album on when i was super wasted for some reason)
The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life And Death (not really my style of music at this point in my life, but they're my friends and some of the best people and i always have to show love for what they do)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart (every song on this album could have been a single. it was like the twee version of FutureSex/LoveSounds)
Air France - No Way Down (too short and fleeting to make a huge impact, but damn these are some great tracks, esp. No Excuses)
Woods - Songs Of Shame (i crapped on the vast majority of lo-fi garbage that got huge this year, but Woods were the one of the extreme few who i thought nailed it and used the method correctly.)
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport (i have to respect FB for expanding their pallet, but honestly, i missed the distortion and screams. still a great album though)

looking through this list, i realize that it's actually sort of unrepresentative of my phases in taste that came and went throughout the year. mostly i'll remember 2009 as the year i moved away from guitars and drums and towards drones and beats.

1.) Real Estate - S/T
2.) Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
3.) Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware
4.) Holopaw - Oh, Glory. Oh, Wilderness.
5.) Ganglians - S/T
6.) Julian Lynch - Born2Run (Don't know when this was released, but I only heard of it this year)
7.) Toro Y Moi - Causers of This (I know not technically out until 2010, but too good to leave off the list)
8.) M. Pyres - & New Past Tense
9.) Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
10.) Chum Onah - BxF Celebration of M.J.

Gbacardi07 said:
nibbleyourears said:
I like:

DP - Bitte Orca
The Antlers - Hospice
Atlas Sound - Logos
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Here We Go Magic - Here We Go Magic
Washed Out - Life of Leisure
The xx - xx
AC - MPP
Girls - Album
Why? - Eskimo Snow
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
My list is better.

Hey now.

Not in any order... Top 10 albums of 2009...

Girls - Album
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Mew - No More Stories are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories The World is Grey I'm Tired Let's Wash Away
St Vincent - Actor
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
MuteMath - Armistice
Say Anything - Say Anything
The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
Pony Pony Run Run - You Need Pony Pony Run Run
Passion Pit - Manners

Yes.

Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
Thee Oh Sees - Help
Real Estate - Real Estate
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast (not out til '10 but they put out a self produced ver)
Blank Dogs - Seconds EP
Dinosaur JR - Farm
Crocodiles - Summer of Hate
The Intelligence - Crepuscule with Pacman
The XX - XX