As the decade comes to a close, it ends with quite a bang. 2009 was an exceptional year for music, from the biggest bands to the smallest bands. I loved making this list because it brought me back to each album, and the reasons why I absolutely loved it. Hopefully a few of these made you happy, and maybe you’ll find some you missed. On a side note, this will indefinitely be my last post for the next week or so. I have finals this entire week that I have to focus on, and then important family stuff. Nonetheless, enjoy the best of 2009!
Jeff’s Best Albums of 2009
01. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
02. The Dear Hunter – Act III: Life and Death
03. Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
04. Passion Pit – Manners
05. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
06. Annabel – Each and Everyone
07. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
08. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
09. The Middle East – The Recordings of the Middle East
10. Matt and Kim – Grand
11. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why There Are Mountains
12. Baroness – Blue Record
13. Sleepy Sun – Embrace
14. Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon: The End of Day
15. Japandroids – Post-Nothing
16. Ramona Falls – Intuit
17. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
18. Black Math Horseman – Wyllt
19. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
20. Drummer – Feel Good Together
21. Snakeosaurus Rex – Rhino
22. I Was A King – I Was A King
23. The Modern Electric – The Modern Electric
24. Between The Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect
25. Mew – No More Stories…
Honorable Mention (in no order)
Throw Me The Statue – Creaturesque
Mystery of Two – Mystery of Two
Emeralds – What Happened
Emeralds – Emeralds
Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms
Worriedaboutsatan – Arrivals
Quest For Fire – Quest For Fire
The xx – xx
Nosaj Thing – Drift
Desolation Wilderness – New Universe
Ducktails – Landscapes
Akron/Family – Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free
Clues – Clues
Dananananaykroyd – Hey Everyone!
Best EPs
01. No Age – Losing Feeling
02. Deerhunter – Rainwater Cassette Exchange>
03. Ponyta – Friendship and Self-Discipline
Best Live Acts (that I saw this year)
Yeasayer
Ponytail
Holy Fuck
I Need Sleep
All The Day Holiday
Matt and Kim
Grizzly Bear
Best B-Side Track
Grizzly Bear – “While You Wait For The Others (Feat. Michael McDonald)”
Worst Band, not only in 2009, EVER (by a landslide)
Wavves
Best Album Art
Baroness – Blue Record
Drummer – Feel Good Together
Bowerbirds – Upper Air
Ramona Falls – Intuit
The Middle East – The Recordings of the Middle East
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Music Go Music – Expressions
Desolation Wilderness – New Universe
The Widest Smiling Faces – The Widest Smiling Faces
Black Math Horseman – Wyllt
Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound – When Sweet Sleep Returned
The American Dollar – Ambient One
We Were Promised Jetpacks – These Four Walls
