60 Albums 2009

Looking back on my favorite albums released in 2009. The first three are great examples of a fantastic year for indie rock. The next couple showcase the extradinary number of good folk influenced albums that year.

Overall a great year.

1. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
2. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
5. A.A. Bondy - When The Devil's Loose
6. Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy
7. St. Vincent - Actor
8. Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood - Live From Madison Square Garden
9. The XX - XX
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
11. John Doe & The Sadies - Country Club
12. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
13. Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
14. The Swell Season - Strict Joy
15. Will Hoge - The Wreckage
16. The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
17. Conor Oberst - Outer South
18. Dawes - North Hills
19. Todd Snider - The Excitement Plan
20. Jason Isbell - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
21. Yusuf Islam - Roadsinger
22. The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
23. Yim Yames - Tribute To
24. Joe Henry - Blood From Stars
25. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
26. Ryan Bingham - Roadhouse Sun
27. Fiction Family - Fiction Family
28. Steve Earle - Townes
29. Cass McCombs - Catacombs
30. Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
31. Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
32. Islands - Vapours
33. Eels - Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire
34. Robyn Hitchcock - Goodnight Oslo
35. Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
36. Dead Man's Bones - Dead Man's Bones
37. Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
38. Marshall Crenshaw - Jaggedland
39. Eleni Mandell - Artificial Fire
40. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
41. Girls - Album
42. Neil Young - Fork In The Road
43. Florence & The Machine - Lungs
44. Wussy - Wussy
45. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
46. Buddy & Julie Miller - Written In Chalk
47. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
48. Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - Under the Covers, Vol. 2
49. Atlas Sound - Logos
50. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Through The Devil Softly
51. Marissa Nadler - Little Hells
52. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
53. The Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock
54. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below
55. Richard Swift - The Atlantic Ocean
56. Sleepy Sun - Embrace
57. The Dodos - Time To Die
58. Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts
59. Great Northern - Remind Me Where The Light Is
60. Ty Segall - Lemons