Best 65 Record Albums of 2009

I'll only be listening to five of these as albums in a couple years. Once again, it wasn't a great year.

The next step is work on a decade list. Best 216.5 records of the 00s. This may take awhile. I do this for me, people.

1. David Bazan - Curse Your Branches
2. Kevin Devine - Brother's Blood
3. Laura Gibson - Beasts Of Seasons
4. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5. Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
6. Do Make Say Think - The Other Truths
7. Swan Lake - Enemy Mine
8. Bowerbirds - Upper Air
9. Elvis Perkins In Dearland - Elvis Perkins In Dearland
10. Why? - Eskimo Snow
11. dirty projectors - bitte orca
12. Mirah - (A)Spera
13. maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
14. Halloween, Alaska - Champagne Downtown
15. Sea Wolf - White Water, White Bloom
16. Bike For Three! - More Heart Than Brains
17. M. Ward - Hold Time
18. Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy
19. Alela Diane - To Be Still
20. Brother Ali - Us
21. Wilco - Wilco
22. Jeremy Enigk - OK Bear
23. Hayden - The Place Where We Lived
24. Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
25. Magnolia Electric Co - Josephine
26. Zu - Carboniferous
27. Adam Arcuragi - I Am Become Joy
28. Telekinesis! - Telekinesis!
29. Julie Doiron - I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
30. Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter
31. Pelican - What We All Come To Need
32. The Mars Volta - Octahedron
33. Dälek - Gutter Tactics
34. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
35. DOOM - Born like this
36. Mi & L'au - Good Morning Jokers
37. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
38. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
39. Sparklehorse & Dangermouse - Dark Night of the Soul
40. Sholi - Sholi
41. Medeski Martin & Wood - Radiolarians III
42. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
43. Saxon Shore - It Doesn't Matter
44. Ryland Bouchard - A-Sides
45. Richard Swift - The Atlantic Ocean
46. Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
47. Dj Signify - Of cities
48. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
49. Zee Avi - Zee Avi
50. Throw Me The Statue - Creaturesque
51. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
52. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
53. Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Radio
54. And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar
55. Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away
56. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
57. Yo La Tengo - Dark Was The Night
58. Vetiver - Tight Knit
59. Themselves - CrownsDown
60. Sleepy Eyes Of Death - Dark Signals
61. Finale - A Pipe Dream and A Promise
62. The Dodos - Time To Die
63. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
64. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware
65. Bob Dylan - Together Through Life