Top Albums for 2009 (in no particular order)

Silversun Pickups (Swoon)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (It’s Blitz!)
Handsome Furs (Face Control)
Pearl Jam (Backspacer)
The Cave Singers (Welcome Joy)
Julian Plenti (Julian Plenti… is Skyscraper)
The Thermals – (Now We Can See)
Animal Collective (Merriweather Post Pavilion)
The Big Pink (A Brief History of Love)
The xx (xx)
A Place to Bury Strangers (Exploding Head)
Them Crooked Vultures (Them Crooked Vultures)
Dead Weather (Dead Weather)
New Moon (Soundtrack)
Japandroids (Post-Nothing)
Sonic Youth (The Eternal)