Drowned In Sound’s Top 50 Albums of 2009
1) Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2) St. Vincent – Actor
3) Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
4) Manic Street Preachers – Journal for Plague Lovers
5) Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
6) Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
7) Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
8) Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
9) Fever Ray – Fever Ray
10) Paramore – brand new eyes
11) Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
12) Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
13) The Horrors – Primary Colours
14) PJ Harvey & John Parish – A Woman a Man Walked By
15) Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
16) Memory Tapes – Seek Magic
17) Metric – Fantasies
18) The Veils – Sun Gangs
19) The Phantom Ban -d Checkmate Savage
20) Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II
21) Future of the Left – Travels With Myself and Another
22) Marissa Nadler – Little Hells
23) Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
24) Idlewild – Post-Electric Blues
25) Pissed Jeans – King of Jeans
26) HEALTH – Get Color
27) Mos Def – The Ecstatic
28) Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster
29) Atlas Sound – Logos
30) Girls – Album
31) Muse – The Resistance
32) The Maccabees – Wall of Arms
33) The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
34) Sunn 0))) – Monoliths & Dimensions
35) Moderat – Moderat
36) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
37) Vitalic – Flashmob
38) Emmy the Great – First Love
39) Gallows – Grey Britain
40) Annie – Don’t Stop
41) Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms
42) Dananananakroyd – Hey Everyone
43) Jamie T – Kings & Queens
44) Grammatics – Grammatics
45) Micachu – Jewellery
46) Mew – No More Stories…
47) My Latest Novel – Death and Entrances
48) Sufjan Stevens – The BQE
49) Sky Larkin – The Golden Spike
50) The xx – xx
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