The Best of 2009

1. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion

2. The XX: xx

3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz!

4. Wild Beasts: Two Dancers

5. Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest

6. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

7. Raekwon: OB4CL2

8. The Drums: EPs

9. Bat For Lashes: Two Suns

10. The Rural Alberta Advantage: Hometowns

11. Girls: Album

12. Atlas Sound: Logos

13. Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

14. Lil Wayne: No Ceilings

15. St. Vincent: Actor

16. Suckers: EP

17. White Rabbits: It's Frightening

18. Real Estate: Atlantic City Expressway EP / Real Estate LP

19. Ryan Leslie: Ryan Leslie

20. Cymbals Eat Guitars: Why There Are Mountains

21. Memory Tapes: Seek Magic

22. Sleigh Bells: Demo

23. Dot Rotten: R.I.P Young Dot

24. Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca

25. Micachu & the Shapes: Jewellery

26. Passion Pit: Manners

27. Bill Callahan: Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle

28. Freddie Gibbs: The Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs

29. Bibio: Ambivalence Avenue

30. Mos Def: The Ecstatic

Worth Mentioning:
Camera Obscura: My Maudlin Career, tUnE-yArDs: BiRd-BrAiNs, Saigon: All in a Day's Work, Gui Boratto: Take My Breath Away, Florence and the Machine: A Lot of Love, A Lot of Blood, Femi Kuti: Day By Day, Slaughterhouse: Slaughterhouse, The Antlers: Hospice, Manchester Orchestra: Mean Everything to Nothing

Highly scientific!