Friday, December 11, 2009

Listed 2009: Our Top 55 Albums of the Year

I have never been one for lists at the end of each year. However, sitting here and realizing just how challenging it is, we, S and I, have decided to give it a whirl. The following are a list of our top 55 albums of the last year, in no particular order. Why 55 you may ask? Who knows!

* = Go Buy Right Now! Some are available for free so you might as well pick them up.







  1. The Wooden Birds - Magnolia
  2. Black Joe Lewis and The Honeybears - Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!
  3. Homelife - Exotic Interlude
  4. *Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre
  5. Gregory Alan Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere
  6. *The Generationals - Con Law
  7. Eels - The MySpace Transmissions
  8. DJ Zebra - Bootstock
  9. Throw Me The Statue - Creaturesque
  10. *Alec Ounsworth - Mo Beauty
  11. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
  12. Tap Tap - On My Way
  13. *Scott H. Biram - Something's Wrong/Lost Forever
  14. *Roadside Graves - My Son's Home
  15. Pomegranates - Everybody, Come Outside!
  16. Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
  17. Kings Of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence
  18. *Eau Claire Memorial Jazz I, Featuring Justin Vernon - A Decade With Duke
  19. *Joe Pug - In The Meantime EP
  20. *The Devil Makes Three - Do Wrong Right
  21. *Deer Tick - Born on Flag Day
  22. *The Deep Dark Woods - Winter Hours
  23. *Dan Mangan - Nice, Nice, Very Nice
  24. *Chris Smither - Time stands still
  25. Chris Garneau - El Radio
  26. Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
  27. Brakes - Touchdown
  28. Bowerbirds - Upper Air
  29. Bombadil - Tarpits And Canyonlands
  30. BLK JKS - After Robots
  31. *Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer EP
  32. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
  33. Bill Frisell - Disfarmer
  34. Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
  35. The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
  36. *The American Analog Set - Hard to Find: Singles and Unreleased 2000-2005
  37. A.A. Bondy - When The Devil's Loose
  38. Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love
  39. Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)
  40. Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
  41. Chet - Chelsea Silver, Please Come Home
  42. Caledonia - We Are America
  43. *Ola Podrida - Belly of the Lion
  44. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
  45. Huck Notari - Very Long Dream
  46. The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come
  47. Molina & Johnson - Molina & Johnson
  48. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Summer Of Fear
  49. *Megafaun - Gather, Form & Fly
  50. Malcolm Middleton - Waxing Gibbous
  51. Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine
  52. Magic Wands - Magic Love & Dreams - EP
  53. Lou Barlow - Goodnight Unknown
  54. Loch Lomond - Trumpets For Paper Children
  55. *Langhorne Slim - Be Set Free

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