Wolf EyesI surely tried to stay below 100. I deleted many, but I simply didn't see the point of cutting down even more. Many fascinating albums are on the list. I think there is a lot of genre variation (even though one will immediately see that certain genres are completely missing) and some really rare gems are hidden in between.
Still, a lot of 2009 music I kind of enjoyed are not on the list, for various reasons, especially if the music is not working as an album, but just as single tunes. And if someone finds one of their favorites way down around #100 that doesn't mean it's crap to me. All that made it here I truely enjoyed. Also, imagine this list being done within the past few weeks at wintertime. Moods of all kinds influenced the positions quite a lot. So even if the first dozens are ranked with much care, the lower more or less 2/3 of the list are not. They have fallen under my arbitrary and rather random judgements.
Enjoy!
1 Merriweather Post Pavillion – Animal Collective
2 Dragonslayer – Sunset Rubdown
3 Capri – Celer
4 Beast Rest Forth Mouth – Bear in Heaven
5 Monoliths & Dimensions – Sunn O)))
6 Songs of Shame – Woods
7 Fall Be Kind EP – Animal Collective
8 Aesthetics – Maribel
9 xx – The xx
10 Aineen Musta Puhelin (Black Telephone of Matter) – Mika Vainio
11 Cielo Cristalino – Hobo Cubes
12 Earthly Delights – Lightning Bolt
13 Tarot Sport – Fuck Buttons
14 Post-Nothing – Japandroids
15Pitch Black – Die Elektrischen
16 Get Color – HEALTH
17 Jewellery – Micachu
18 This Face – Gnaw
19 III - Espers
20 Veckatimest – Grizzly Bear
21Lovetune For Vacuum – Soap&Skin
22 Kesämaan lapset - Es
23 Embryonic – The Flaming Lips
24 Exquisite Corpse EP – warpaint
25 Vinonaamakasio – Shogun Kunitoki
26 Fever Ray – Fever Ray
27 An Imaginary Country – Tim Hecker
28 Wild and Inside – Eat Skull
29 Meandering Pupa – Chubby Wolf
30 Tomutonti – Tomutonttu
31 Blank Grey Canvas Sky – Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek
32 Fleurs – Former Ghosts
33 Great Lengths – Martyn
34 The Way We Are – The Present
35 Nuclear Sun – Der Blaue Reiter
36 Inakamono No Kara Genki – Kazuki Tomokawa
37 Hospice – The Antlers
38 Kappe – Svarte Greiner
39 The Third Mobius – Coax
40 Totems Flare – Clark
41 Lovers Love Haters EP – Lovers Love Haters
42 Dying in Time - port-royal
43 The Incident – Porcupine Tree
44 Ambivalence Avenue – Bibio
45 L'Autopsie Phénoménale de Dieu - Kreng
46 Now We Can See – The Thermals
47 Wavvves – Wavves
48 Journal of Ardency EP – Class Actress
49 Hintergarten – Hannu
50 Hard Islands – Nathan Fake
51 Endless Forms - Butane
52 Let's Build a Roof - Lake
53 Hymn To The Immortal Wind - Mono
54 Aix – Giuseppe Ielasi
55 BEAK> - Beak>
56 Unmap – Volcano Choir
57 Bitte Orca – Dirty Projectors
58 Monster Head Room – Ganglians
59 Why There Are Mountains – Cymbals Eat Guitars
60 Album – Girls
61 Shhh!!! - Lumen Lab
62 Psychic Maps – Dysrhythmia
63 City Center – City Center
64 Wavering Radiant – Isis
65 Silvester Anfang II – Silvester Anfang
66 Seek Magic – Memory Tapes
67 Abstract Expression – Dominique Leone
68 A Slave's Commitment – Applescal
69 Axe To Fall – Converge
70 Grass Widows – Grass Widows
71 Chinese Leftovers – Sugarplum Fairies
72 Jubilee Singers – Jubilee Singers
73 Music For Falling From Trees – Peter Broderick
74 Riceboy Sleeps – Jónsi & Alex
75 Dead Man's Bones – Dead Man's Bones
76 Polly Scattergood – Polly Scattergood
77 Dear John – Loney, Dear
78 jj n°2 – JJ
79 Listening Tree – Tim Exile
80 Like Dust of the Balance - Ochre
81 BiRd-BrAiNs – Tune-Yards
82 Everything Goes Wrong – Vivian Girls
83 Clubroot – Clubroot
84 Wave If You're Really There – Wave Machines
85 H-3 – Oliver Huntemann
86 Exploding Head – A Place To Bury Strangers
87 Exit Dreams – The Huntches
88 Two Sunsets – Pastels & Tenniscoats
89 The Ichthyologist – Giant Squid
90 High Times – Washed out
91 Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain – Current 93
92 Hold Time – M. Ward
93 Two Suns – Bat for Lashes
94 Always Wrong – Wolf Eyes
95 See Mystery Lights – YACHT
96 Köld - Sólstafir
97 Forget The Night Ahead – The Twilight Sad
98 Love Is A Liability – FaltyDL
99 Filth – Venetian Snares
100 Großstadtmärchen - Oliver Koletzki
101 Two Dancers – Wild Beasts
102 Face Control – Handsome Furs
103 Bromst – Dan Deacon
104 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
105 Geneva – Russian Circles
106 Momo EP – Hooray For Earth
107 Like Angels – Screaming Lights
108 In The Gardens Of The North – Sleeping States
109 Actor – St. Vincent
110 The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion – dredg
111 Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
112 Real Life Is No Cool - Lindstrøm & Christabelle
113 UUVVWWZ – UUVVWWZ
114 Brief History Of Love – The Big Pink
115 Logos – Atlas Sound
116 Time Waits For No Slave – Napalm Death
117 The Keeper of the Library – The Archivist
118 Intuit – Ramona Falls
119 Black Pearl - Bloody Mary
120 Act III: Life and Death – The Dear Hunter
121 Summon – Bloody Panda
122 Aufgang – Aufgang
123 Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt – Gorgoroth
Still, a lot of 2009 music I kind of enjoyed are not on the list, for various reasons, especially if the music is not working as an album, but just as single tunes. And if someone finds one of their favorites way down around #100 that doesn't mean it's crap to me. All that made it here I truely enjoyed. Also, imagine this list being done within the past few weeks at wintertime. Moods of all kinds influenced the positions quite a lot. So even if the first dozens are ranked with much care, the lower more or less 2/3 of the list are not. They have fallen under my arbitrary and rather random judgements.
Enjoy!
1 Merriweather Post Pavillion – Animal Collective
2 Dragonslayer – Sunset Rubdown
3 Capri – Celer
4 Beast Rest Forth Mouth – Bear in Heaven
5 Monoliths & Dimensions – Sunn O)))
6 Songs of Shame – Woods
7 Fall Be Kind EP – Animal Collective
8 Aesthetics – Maribel
9 xx – The xx
10 Aineen Musta Puhelin (Black Telephone of Matter) – Mika Vainio
11 Cielo Cristalino – Hobo Cubes
12 Earthly Delights – Lightning Bolt
13 Tarot Sport – Fuck Buttons
14 Post-Nothing – Japandroids
15Pitch Black – Die Elektrischen
16 Get Color – HEALTH
17 Jewellery – Micachu
18 This Face – Gnaw
19 III - Espers
20 Veckatimest – Grizzly Bear
21Lovetune For Vacuum – Soap&Skin
22 Kesämaan lapset - Es
23 Embryonic – The Flaming Lips
24 Exquisite Corpse EP – warpaint
25 Vinonaamakasio – Shogun Kunitoki
26 Fever Ray – Fever Ray
27 An Imaginary Country – Tim Hecker
28 Wild and Inside – Eat Skull
29 Meandering Pupa – Chubby Wolf
30 Tomutonti – Tomutonttu
31 Blank Grey Canvas Sky – Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek
32 Fleurs – Former Ghosts
33 Great Lengths – Martyn
34 The Way We Are – The Present
35 Nuclear Sun – Der Blaue Reiter
36 Inakamono No Kara Genki – Kazuki Tomokawa
37 Hospice – The Antlers
38 Kappe – Svarte Greiner
39 The Third Mobius – Coax
40 Totems Flare – Clark
41 Lovers Love Haters EP – Lovers Love Haters
42 Dying in Time - port-royal
43 The Incident – Porcupine Tree
44 Ambivalence Avenue – Bibio
45 L'Autopsie Phénoménale de Dieu - Kreng
46 Now We Can See – The Thermals
47 Wavvves – Wavves
48 Journal of Ardency EP – Class Actress
49 Hintergarten – Hannu
50 Hard Islands – Nathan Fake
51 Endless Forms - Butane
52 Let's Build a Roof - Lake
53 Hymn To The Immortal Wind - Mono
54 Aix – Giuseppe Ielasi
55 BEAK> - Beak>
56 Unmap – Volcano Choir
57 Bitte Orca – Dirty Projectors
58 Monster Head Room – Ganglians
59 Why There Are Mountains – Cymbals Eat Guitars
60 Album – Girls
61 Shhh!!! - Lumen Lab
62 Psychic Maps – Dysrhythmia
63 City Center – City Center
64 Wavering Radiant – Isis
65 Silvester Anfang II – Silvester Anfang
66 Seek Magic – Memory Tapes
67 Abstract Expression – Dominique Leone
68 A Slave's Commitment – Applescal
69 Axe To Fall – Converge
70 Grass Widows – Grass Widows
71 Chinese Leftovers – Sugarplum Fairies
72 Jubilee Singers – Jubilee Singers
73 Music For Falling From Trees – Peter Broderick
74 Riceboy Sleeps – Jónsi & Alex
75 Dead Man's Bones – Dead Man's Bones
76 Polly Scattergood – Polly Scattergood
77 Dear John – Loney, Dear
78 jj n°2 – JJ
79 Listening Tree – Tim Exile
80 Like Dust of the Balance - Ochre
81 BiRd-BrAiNs – Tune-Yards
82 Everything Goes Wrong – Vivian Girls
83 Clubroot – Clubroot
84 Wave If You're Really There – Wave Machines
85 H-3 – Oliver Huntemann
86 Exploding Head – A Place To Bury Strangers
87 Exit Dreams – The Huntches
88 Two Sunsets – Pastels & Tenniscoats
89 The Ichthyologist – Giant Squid
90 High Times – Washed out
91 Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain – Current 93
92 Hold Time – M. Ward
93 Two Suns – Bat for Lashes
94 Always Wrong – Wolf Eyes
95 See Mystery Lights – YACHT
96 Köld - Sólstafir
97 Forget The Night Ahead – The Twilight Sad
98 Love Is A Liability – FaltyDL
99 Filth – Venetian Snares
100 Großstadtmärchen - Oliver Koletzki
101 Two Dancers – Wild Beasts
102 Face Control – Handsome Furs
103 Bromst – Dan Deacon
104 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
105 Geneva – Russian Circles
106 Momo EP – Hooray For Earth
107 Like Angels – Screaming Lights
108 In The Gardens Of The North – Sleeping States
109 Actor – St. Vincent
110 The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion – dredg
111 Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
112 Real Life Is No Cool - Lindstrøm & Christabelle
113 UUVVWWZ – UUVVWWZ
114 Brief History Of Love – The Big Pink
115 Logos – Atlas Sound
116 Time Waits For No Slave – Napalm Death
117 The Keeper of the Library – The Archivist
118 Intuit – Ramona Falls
119 Black Pearl - Bloody Mary
120 Act III: Life and Death – The Dear Hunter
121 Summon – Bloody Panda
122 Aufgang – Aufgang
123 Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt – Gorgoroth
