What a fuckin year! 2009 was candy to our ears! It’s always tough picking a certain amount of albums to represent the year’s best, because there’s always so many damn good ones and everyone has their own opinion. This year Grimy Goods features four debut albums on their Top 20 Albums of 2009 list, in addition to 16 other knock out albums! Below is our list starting with #20! What albums were your favorite for 2009?
| 20. Jenny Owen Youngs Transmitter Failure (Nettwerk Records) |
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| 19. Kasabian West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (Red Inc.) |
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| 18. The Dodos Time to Die Frenchkiss Records |
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| 17. The Horrors Primary Colours (XL Recordings) |
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| 16. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) |
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| 15. Yo La Tengo Popular Songs (Matador) |
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| 14. Girls Girls (True Panther) |
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| 13. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Up From Below (Vagrant Records) |
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| 12. The Dead Weather Horehound (WEA/Reprise) |
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| 11. Black Lips 200 Million Thousand (Vice) |
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| 10. Mos Def The Ecstatic (Downtown) |
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| 9. Eels Hombre Lobo (Vagrant Records) |
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| 8. The XX XX (Xl Recordings) |
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| 7. Metric Fantasies (Last Gang) |
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| 6. The Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino) |
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| 5. Dan Auerbach Keep it Hid (Nonesuch) |
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| 4. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest (Warp Records) |
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| 3. The Big Pink A Brief History of Love (4ad Records) |
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| 2. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavillion (Domino) |
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| 1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs It’s Blitz! (Interscope) |
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