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