Best Albums of 2009
To anyone who pays even the slightest bit of attention to contemporary music, it's an obvious statement that the amount of quality music coming across our computers is growing each year. So with that fact in mind, we expanded the list of the best albums to 20 for this year.
Raekwon's Only Built for Cuban Linx Pt. II, Company of Thieves' Ordinary Riches and Amazing Baby's Rewild could all have made some movement on the list if we'd had more time to take another listen. Black Moth Super Rainbow's Eating Us and Neon Indian's Psychic Chasmswould have made the list but are just too short to be called legit LPs. So here it is, the Top 20 Albums of 2009. Local albums and concert 'best of lists' coming soon.
1. Here We Go Magic - S/T
2. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
3. Phenomenal Hand Clap Band - S/T
4. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. The Entrance Band - S/T
6. Appleseed Cast - Sagarmatha
7. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
8. Cassettes Won't Listen - Into The Hillside
9. Flaming Lips - Embryonic
10. Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day
11. Mos Def - The Ecstatic
12. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
13. Chris Joss - Sticks
14. Van Ghost - Melodies for Lovers
15. The Low Anthem - Oh My God Charlie Darwin
16. The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come
17. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
18. The Swimmers - People Are Soft
19. Silversun Pickups - Swoon
20. The xx - xx
