Spin: The 40 Best Albums of 2009
01 Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
02 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
03 Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
04 Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
05 Girls – Album
06 Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
07 Mos Def – The Ecstatic
08 Florence And The Machine – Lungs
09 Drake – So Far Gone
10 The Dead Weather – Horehound
11 Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson – Summer Of Fear
12 Ida Maria – Fortress Round My Heart
13 Jay Reatard – Watch Me Fall
14 Amadou & Mariam – Welcome To Mali
15 Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
16 Japandroids – Post-Nothing
17 Mastodon – Crack The Skye
18 Antony And The Johnsons – The Crying Light
19 Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
20 Paramore – Brand New Eyes
21 Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II
22 Tegan And Sara – Sainthood
23 St. Vincent – Actor
24 Wolfmother – Cosmic Egg
25 The Big Pink – A Brief History Of Love
26 The Mountain Goats – The Life Of The World To Come
27 Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
28 The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
29 Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
30 Julian Casablancas – Phrazes For The Young
31 Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
32 U2 – No Line On The Horizon
33 The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You
34 Mariachi El Bronx – Mariachi El Bronx
35 Miike Snow – Miike Snow
36 Brakesbrakesbrakes – Touchdown
37 Gallows – Grey Britain
38 Rick Ross – Deeper Than Rap
39 Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
40 Kiss – Sonic Boom
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