50. Electric Tickle Machine – Blew It Again
49. Black Joe Lewis – Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is!
48. Harlem – Free Drugs
47. Japandroids – Post-Nothing
46. She Keeps Bees – Nests
45. Califone – All Of My Friends Are Funeral Singers
44. Forest Fire – Survival
43. Black Lips – 200 Million Thousand
42. People Under The Stairs – Carried Away
41. The Black Atlantic – Reverence For Fallen Trees
40. William Elliott Whitmore – Animals In The Dark
39. Kurt Vile – Childish Prodigy
38. Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
37. Vetiver – Tight Knit
36. A.A. Bondy – When The Devil’s Loose
35. Bowerbirds – Upper Air
34. Pains At Being Pure At Heart – Self-Titled
33. The Antlers – Hospice
32. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
31. Deer Tick – Born on Flag Day
30. Blakroc – S/T
29. Woods – Songs of Shame
28. Floating Action – S/T
27. Memory Tapes – Seek Magic
26. M. Ward – Hold Time
25. Mayer Hawthorne – A Strange Arrangement
24. Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs
23. The Horrors – Primary Colours

1. The Whitefield Brothers – In The Raw (Buy)

Label: Now Again
Whitefield Brothers – In The Raw

2. Death – For The Whole World To See (Buy)

Label: Drag City
Death – Keep On Knocking

MP3: Fort Knox Five – X-mas Dub Time

Rolling Stone Magazine – 25 Best Albums of 2009
25 Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. II
24 Monsters Of Folk – Monsters Of Folk
23 Levon Helm – Electric Dirt
22 Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
21 Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
20 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
19 Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
18 Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
17 Mos Def – The Ecstatic
16 Wilco – Wilco (The Album
15 Girls – Album
14 Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
13 Drake – So Far Gone Mixtape
12 Mastodon – Crack The Skye
11 Pearl Jam – Backspacer
10 Sonic Youth – The Eternal
09 The xx – xx
08 The-Dream – Love Vs. Money
07 Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
06 Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
05 Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
04 Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
03 Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
02 Bruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream
01 U2 – No Line ON The Horizon

The Guardian – Top 50 Albums of 2009
01 The xx – xx
02. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
03. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
04. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
05. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
06. Florence and the Machine – Lungs
07. Noah and the Whale – The First Days of Spring
08. Micachu and the Shapes – Jewellery
09. La Roux – La Roux
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
11 Manic Street Preachers – Journal for Plague Lovers
12 Mumford and Sons – Sigh No More
13 The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
14 Tune Yards – Bird Brains
15 Lady Gaga – The Fame
16 Girls – Album
17 Future of the Left – Travels with Myself and Another
18 Japandroids – Post-Nothing
19 Jamie T – Kings and Queens
20 Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter
21 The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition
22 Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions
23 The Hidden Cameras – Origin:Orphan
24 Doom – Born Like This
25 Taken By Trees – East of Eden
26 Patrick Watson – Wooden Arms