I can’t remember how many years i have been doing this for at this point, but couple of my friends reminded me that they are waiting for this year’s list. The more i go through my music library the more i realize it was actually a great year for music. so without much further delay, here is my list of 2009’s best albums (not in any particular order):

Girls - Girls
Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship
Bear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
tUnE-YaRdS- BiRd-BrAiNs
Baroness - Blue Record
DOOM - Born Like This
The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
Dan Deacon - Bromst
Cass McCombs - Catacombs
Pylon - Chomp
Mastadon - Crack the Skye
The Decemberists- The Hazards of Love
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Why? - Eskimo Snow
The Intelligence - Fake Surfers
Fool’s Gold - Fool’s Gold
The Antlers - Hospice
Afuche - I made dots…
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!
Micachu and the Shapes - Jewellery
Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans
Pontiak - Maker
Sunn o))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
Double Dagger - More
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - S/T
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Real Estate - Real Estate
YACHT - I See Mystery Lights
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Woods - Songs of Shame
Mission of Burma - The Sound The Speed The Light
Vetiver - Tight Knit
The Dodos- Time to Die
Dizzie Rascal - Tongue N’ Cheek
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Mi Ami - Watersports
Karen O and the Kids - Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
The XX - The XX
Karl Blau - Zebra