Music Under Fire: Top 30 Albums For 2009
With many head-turners throughout 2009, we found much more strength in our singles list than in albums this past year. However, our top 30 albums are nothing to sneeze at. Several albums this past year held strong to the winds of past years and we’re quite sure 2009 will be revisited many times for years to come.
Among this year’s greats were lots of female vocalists including Great Northern and Metric. in our top 10 albums. It goes without saying Phoenix made a huge impact this year. Not only was Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix our number one album, but we had practically declared on first listen. As premature as that may seem, some of our favorite albums this year hit us hard on our first listen such as Hurricane Bells’ Tonight Is The Ghost and Vib Gyor’s We Are Not An Island.
Just as we did last year, we chisseled this list down to only 30 albums so we could cut out any extensive list so you can see what we truly enjoyed in 2009. We hope you enjoy what we continue to listen to from the past year!
MP3:Vib Gyor – Fallen (buy)
MP3:Phoenix – Girlfriend (buy)
MP3:The Rifles – Winter Calls (buy)
MP3:Great Northern – Story (buy)
MP3:Metric – Gold Guns Girls (buy)
30
White Lies
To Lose My Life (Polydor)
29
Systems Officer
Underslept (Temporary Residence)
28
The Bravery
Stir The Blood (The Island of Def Jam Music Group)
27
David Gray
Draw The Line (IHT)
26
Director
I’ll Wait For Sound (Crapshoot Economics)
25
Say Hi
Oohs & Aahs (Barsuk)
24
Manchester Orchestra
Mean Everything To Nothing (Sony)
23
Jeniferever
Spring Tides (Monotreme)
22
The Temper Trap
Conditions (Liberation)
21
The Maccabees
Wall Of Arms (Polydor)
20
Bell X1
Blue Lights On The Runway (BellyUp)
19
Letting Up Despite Great Faults
Letting Up Despite Great Faults (New Words)
18
The Answering Machine
Another City, Another Sorry (Heist or Hit)
17
Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
16
Real Estate
Real Estate (Woodsist)
15
The xx
XX (Young Turks)
14
The Dodos
Time To Die (Frenchkiss)
13
Eulogies
Here Anonymous (Dangerbird)
12
The Twilight Sad
Forget the Night Ahead (FatCat)
11
Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest (Warp)
10
Silversun Pickups
Swoon (Dangerbird)
9
Paper Route
Absence (Universal Motown)
8
Athlete
Black Swan (Polydor)
7
Hurricane Bells
Tonight Is The Ghost (Vagrant)
6
Mute Math
Armistice (Warner Bros)
5
Great Northern
Remind Me Where The Light Is (eenie meenie)
4
Metric
Fantasies (Metric Music)
3
Vib Gyor
We Are Not An Island (TAKEAIMFIRE)
2
The Rifles
Great Escape (Nettwerk)
1
Phoenix
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Ghettoblaster)
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Refreshing to see a list without most of the usual suspects. A lot of stuff in this list that I’ve never heard. There are 5 or so records that I checked out and really like. Thanks for the heads up.
Much appreciated… this list was quite tough for us to put together. Its tough to not put a few of the ones that made it more popular since they are great albums. When we were making this list, we didn’t look to see what other sites put up, we really enjoyed these albums! Glad you found a few you liked!!
We will have our top 100 songs out in the next week. Stay tuned…
I like the list. Mute Math is my fav album this year. I can’t get enough of this album. I liked the Rifles album, a little too high for me. White Lies, Say Hi, Paper Route, Phoenix…all good. I am excited to check out some of the other ones you have listed that I don’t know about. You guys always put out good reviews and have musical tastes similar to mine so I love to check the site out. I think you forgot some great albums, but we can’t all agree on everything.
Hayden – The Place Where We Lived
As Tall As Lions – You Can’t Take It With You
Hezekiah Jones – Bread of Teeth – Local Philly Band
Canadian Invasion – Three Cheers for the Invisible Hand
Pilot Speed – Wooden Bones
The Rocketboys – 20,000 Ghosts
Fruit Bats – Ruminant Band
Throw Me the Statue – Creaturesque
We Were Promised Jetpacks – These Four Walls
Foreign Born – Person To Person
Ramona Falls – Intuit
Brazos – Phosphorescent Blues
Pet Lions – Soft Right
Ok…maybe not all of these are two 30 material…but I think the top 6 in my list should be, at least in my top 30.
Cheers!