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Top 25 Albums of 2009:

1. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca


2. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone


3. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix


4. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest


5. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast


6. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains


7. Antony and the Johnson - The Crying Light


8. Girls - Album


9. Bear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth


10. LAKE - Lets Build a Roof


11. Woods - Songs of Shame


12. Volcano Choir - Unmap


13. Atlas Sound - Logos


14. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm


15. The Mountain Goats - The Life of The World to Come


16. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)


17. Bon Iver - Blood Bank EP


18. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - Beware


19. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below


20. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career


21. Vic Chesnutt - At The Cut


22. Bill Callahan - Sometime I Wish We Were an Eagle


23. St. Vincent - Actor


24. Holopaw - Oh, Glory. Oh, Wilderness.


25. Vetiver - Tight Knit

Best New Artist:

Real Estate - Real Estate

Honorable Mention:
The Decemberists - Hazards of Love
Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
Avett Brothers - You and I and Love
Julie Doiron - I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day
Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship
Loney, Dear - Dear John
M. Ward - Hold Time
Thee Oh Sees - Help
Deer Tick - Born on Flag Day
Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
Metric - Fantasies
Kid CuDi - Man On The Moon: The End of Day
Mount Eerie - Winds Poem
Bowerbirds - Upper Air

Best songs of 2009(in no particular order):
J. Tillman - Steel on Steel
LAKE - Dont Give Up
Washed Out - Feel It All Around
Here We Go Magic - Fangela
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Living North
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home
The Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is the Move
Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others
Girls - Hellhole Ratrace
Julie Dorion - When Brakes Get Wet
Vic Chesnutt - I Flirted With You All My Life
Vetiver - Another Reason To Go
Phoenix - 1901
The Big Pink - Dominos
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Fiction
Bat For Lashes - Daniel
Kid CuDi ft. Lady Gaga, Kanye West & Common - Make Her Say
Woods - The Dark
Discovery - So Insane
Antony and the Johnson - Aeon
Matt & Kim - Daylight
Bowerbirds - Northern Lights
Real Estate - Fake Blues
Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You
Andrew Bird - Anonanimal
Bear In Heaven - Lovesick Teenagers

Totally Overrated:
The xx - xx
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion/Fall Be Kind EP
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Neon Indian - Psyhic Chasms

Au Revoir 2009, Bonjor 2010. Happy New Year.