Forty-Three Favorite Albums from 2009

AC Newman - Get Guilty - Matador

Art Brut - Art Brut vs. Satan - Downtown

Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light - Our Secret

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Beware - Drag City

Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy - Warner Bors.

Circulatory System - Signal Morning - Cloud Recordings

Condo Fucks - Fuckbook - Matador

Dept. Of Energy - Faster - Roam

Dinosaur Jr. - Farm - Jagjaguwar

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca - Domino

God Help the Girl - God Help the Girl - Matador

Hornet Leg - Ribbon of Fear - K

I Are Droid - I Are Debut - Razzia

Immaculate Machine - High On Jackson Hill - Mint

James Husband - A Paralax I - Polyvinyl

Japandroids - Post-Nothing - Polyvinyl

Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy - Matador

Liechtenstein - Survival Strategies in a Modern World - Slumberland

Lightning Dust - Infinite Light - Jagjaguwar

Minus 5 - Killingsworth - Yep Roc

Mission of Burma - The Sound The Speed The Light - Matador

Monotix - Where Were You When It Happened - Drag City

Neko Case - Middle Cyclone - Anti

Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Slumberland

Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love - Jagjaguwar

Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Goodnight Oslo - Yep Roc

So Many Dynamos - The Loud Wars - Vagrant

Soft Black - The Earth Is Black - Plays With Dolls

Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer - Jagjaguwar

Tea Cozies - Hot Probs - So Hard

Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster - Kill Rock Stars

the Black Heart Procession - Six - Temporary Residence

the Clean - Mister Pop - Merge

the Flaming Lips - Embryonic - Warner Bros.

the Minus 5 - Killingsworth - Yep ROc

the Shakey Hands - Let It Die - Kill Rock Stars

the Thermals - Now We Can See - Kill Rock Stars

Throw Me The Statue - Creaturesqe - Secretly Canadian

UUVVWWZ - UUVVWWZ - Saddle Creek

V/A - Dark Was The Night - 4AD

Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong - In The Red

Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs - Matador

Young Fresh Fellows - I Think This Is - Yep Roc