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The Best Rock Albums of 2009

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Ratings: 10=best rock album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan
Best of Rock 2009
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    8/10
    7.5/10
  1. Elegi: Varde (Miasmah)
  2. Dan Deacon: Bromst (Carpark)
    7/10
  3. Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport (ATP)
  4. Ben Frost: By The Throat (Bedroom Community)
  5. L'Acephale: Stahlhartes Gehause (Aurora Borealis)
  6. Cave: Psychic Psummer (Important)
  7. Antlers: Hospice (Frenchkiss)
  8. Atlas Sound: Logos (4AD)
  9. Bibio: Ambivalence Avenue (Warp)
  10. Baroness: Blue Record (Relapse)
  11. Necks: Silverwater (ReR)
  12. Clubroot: Clubroot (Lo Dubs)
  13. Caethua: The Long Afternoon Of Earth (Preservation)
  14. Doves: Kingdom of Rust (Astralwerks)
  15. Azita: How Will You (Drag City)
  16. Fever Ray: Fever Ray (Rabid)
  17. Dead Weather: Horehound (Reprise)

Recommended listening:
  • Jepsydho: Ur-symphonie (self-released)
  • DM Stith: Heavy Ghost (Asthmatic Kitty, 2009)
  • Elegi: Varde (Miasmah, 2009)
  • Fiery Furnace: I'm Going Away (Thrill Jockey, 2009)
  • Flaming Lips: Embryonic (2009)
  • Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport (ATP, 2009)
  • Funeral Mist: Maranatha (Ajna, 2009)
  • Girls: Album (True Panther, 2009)
  • Gog: Mist From The Random More (Utech, 2009)
  • Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest (Warp, 2009)
  • Horrors: Primary Colours (XL, 2009)
  • Irr. App. (Ext.)
  • James Blackshaw: The Glass Bead Game (Young God, 2009)
  • Japandroids: Post-Nothing (Polyvynyl, 2009)
  • Jj: Jj #2 (Sincerely Yours, 2009)
  • LSD-March: Under Milk Wood (Important, 2009)
  • Manic Street Preachers: Journal For Plague Lovers (Columbia, 2009)
  • Memory Tapes: Seek Magic (Acephale, 2009)
  • Mount Eerie: Wind's Poem (Elverum, 2009)
  • Mountain Goats: The Life of the World to Come (4AD, 2009)
  • Neko Case: Middle Cyclone (Anti, 2009)
  • Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms (Lefse, 2009)
  • Night Control: Death Control (Kill Shaman, 2009)
  • Peste Noire: Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor (De Profundis, 2009)
  • Piano Magic: Ovations (Darla, 2009)
  • Real Estate: Real Estate (Woodsist, 2009)
  • Richard Youngs: Beyond the Valley of Ultrahits (Sonic Oyster, 2009)
  • Shit And Shine: 229-2299 Girls Against Shit (Riot Season, 2009)
  • St Vincent: Actor (4AD, 2009)
  • Super Furry Animals: Dark Days/Light Years (Rough Trade, 2009)
  • Sylvester Anfang II: Sylvester Anfang II (Aurora Borealis, 2009)
  • Tim Hecker: An Imaginary Country (Kranky, 2009)
  • Velvet Cacoon: Atropine (Full Moon, 2009)
  • Very Best: Warm Heart of Africa (Green Owl, 2009)
  • Volcano Choir: Unmap (Jagjaguwar, 2009)
  • Wavves: Wavvves (Fat Possum, 2009)
  • Wild Beasts: Two Dancers (Domino, 2009)
  • William Fowler Collins: Perdition Hill Radio (Type, 2009)
  • Woods: Songs of Shame (Shrimper, 2009)
  • Xx: The xx (Young Turks, 2009)
  • Yacht: See Mystery Lights (DFA, 2009)
  • Yo La Tengo: Popular Songs (Matador, 2009)
  • Yoga: Megafauna (Holy Mountain, 2009)
Playlist
  1. Dan Deacon: Build Voice
  2. Doves: Kingdom of Rust
  3. Fever Ray: If I Had A Heart
  4. Pains Of Being Pure At Heart: The Tenure Itch
  5. Vivian Girls: Out For The Sun
  6. Azita: I'm Happy
  7. Terminal Sound System: Constructing Towers
  8. Dead Weather: Treat Me Like Your Mother
  9. Decemberists: The Rake's Song
  10. Patrick Wolf: Oblivion
  11. Vivian Girls: I Have No Fun
  12. Green Day: Know Your Enemy
  13. Beat Circus: The Life You Save May Be Your Own
  14. Azita: Away
  15. Bachelorette: Mindwarp
  16. Animal Collective: Summertime Clothes
  17. Bill Callahan: Eid Ma Clack Shaw
  18. Fever Ray: Now's The Only Time I Know
  19. Andrew Bird: Effigy
  20. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Heads Will Roll
  21. Beat Circus: Petrified Man
  22. Bat For Lashes: Daniel
  23. Vivian Girls: I'm Not Asleep
  24. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Zero
  25. Dirty Projectors: Stillness Is The Move

Extended tracks
  1. Necks: Silverwater
  2. L'Acephale: Stahlhartes Gehause
  3. Masaki Batoh & Helena Espvall: Until Tomorrow
  4. Erdem Helvacioglu: Lead Crystal Marbles
  5. John Frusciante: Before the Beginning
Jazz
  1. Dave Hurley: Outer Nebula, Inner Nebula (Porter)
  2. Vijay Iver: Historicity
  3. Nels Cline: Coward
  4. Ergo: Multitude Solitude (Cuneiform)
  5. Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines
  6. Steve Lehman: Travil Transformation and Flow
  7. Bill Frisell: Disfarmer
  8. Henry Threadgill: This Brings to Us
  9. Joe Lovano: Us Five (Blue Note)

By genre:

Songwriters

Post-rock
Psychedelia

Electronica

Progressive

Punk/hardcore

Dance
Heavy rock

Instrumental

By country:

Britain

Germany
Japan

Rest of Europe
Australia

Canada

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