Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......2009! !

surprised that everyone is not saying “midtown 120 blues”

Fever Ray

VWas there a metal poll that year because I reckon I heard a lot metal that year on the back of that

― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 13:45 (forty-four minutes ago)

I think so?

dj sprinkles all the way, forever

Have to vote for Cass (my honorable mentions would be Bill C, Dirty Ps, Fever Ray, Flaming Lips, JBs, Micachu)

Big ones on my list that are missing:

Hudson Mohawke - Butter
Maxwell - BLACKsummer's Night
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Mount Kimbie - Maybes EP
The Bad Plus - For All I Care

And wasn't 45:33 '09? But out of these, it's Dirty Projectors for sure.

You post “worst year by far imo” and then list a pile of masterpiece albums!

It’s a toss-up between DJ Sprinkles and Micachu for me, with Micachu having a hair of advantage bc I didn’t hear the Sprinkles until later. Could’ve also voted Bill or Cass very happily

Cuban Linx

wild beasts, cause i couldn't vote for them in the last one

might've voted for the ecstatic if it were on here

Definitely DJ Sprinkles for me, though I was pretty tempted by Flaming Lips. Embryonic is a really underrated album. IMO, their only truly great record.

Electrik Red in a heartbeat - one of the best albums ever made - followed by DJ Sprinkles and then probably Animal Collective, Fever Ray, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the XX and then Wild Beasts (at least if we're confined to the list).

Equal-second to me but surprisingly not on this list is The-Dream's second album, and somewhat close behind would be Paramore, Maxwell and maybe Rihanna.

I think of Fall Out Boy's Folie a Deux as a 2009 album but it turns out it came out in mid-December 2008.

Wild Beasts, as that’s my fave of theirs, while 2004’s Map of What Is Effortless is for TTA.

So this is the year of GAPDYX. I don’t really love anything here. Real Estate didn’t get good until their second album. I guess Girls were ok, but I never listen to it anymore. Write-in vote for Bat For Lashes.

wait how have I never heard/heard of this Emeralds album?!?

sunn for me narrowly over Tonetta

gahhhh

Released only as a run of 75 cassettes sold on tour

jordan otm. voted xx, but maxwell is my real vote.

The-Dream is my go to answer for this best of ‘09 but that isn’t here …

Given what is, Raekwon

Gotta be Monoliths

(As for Electrik Red I love maybe 2-3 songs on that record then there’s the rest)

The AC I burned myself out on though it’s still solid. The SY… this might be my least favorite SY studio LP of the final stretch

I think I liked a lot of these at the time but the only one I listen to with any frequency now is the xx. Midtown 120 Blues is probably the correct answer though.

Eletrik Red is good.
White Denim never put out an album that could match how incredible their live show was.
So anco it is.

Relatively weak crop, much as I dig the SY, JBs, Fever Ray and The Field. Voting for Sprinkles though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8EfrXZQ7bU

Yob - Great Cessation, not least because it has both "Burning the Altar" and my favorite Yob song of all time, "The Lie that Is Sin"

as always, as ever, tim F otm

THE-DREAM - LOVE VS MONEY

^beats it up like gorillas

ii too xps

Voted for Monolith & Dimensions, but my favorite 2009 release was Oneohtrix' compliation Rifts

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I've not heard that emeralds

BLACKsummer's Night still sounds beamed in from a parallel universe where albums remain taut.

Some others from that year:

Brad Paisley – American Saturday Night
Mos Def – The Ecstatic
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
DJ Quik and Kurupt – Blaqkout
Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster
Miranda Lambert – Revolution
Wussy – Wussy

My 2009 list from the time that I posted on lastfm

Absu - Absu ,
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb ,
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs ,
Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ ,
Baroness - Blue ,
Candlemass - Death Magic Doom ,
Church of Misery – Houses Of The Unholy ,
Coalesce - Ox ,
Cobalt - Gin ,
Converge - Axe To Fall ,
Emeralds - Emeralds ,
Emeralds - What Happened,
Fen - The Malediction Fields ,
Ganglians - Ganglians ,
Horseback - The Invisible Mountain ,
Hymn to the Immortal Wind ,
Isis - Wavering Radiant ,
Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough ,
Kylesa -Static Tensions ,
Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights ,
Liturgy - Renihilation ,
Majeure - Timespan.
Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers,
Mastodon - Crack The Skye ,
Morne - Untold Wait ,
Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem ,
Mournful Congregation - The June Frost ,
Natural Snow Buildings - Shadow Kingdom ,
Om - God Is Good ,
Oneohtrix Point Never – russian mind ,
Orthodox - Sentencia ,
Real Estate - Real Estate,
Shrinebuilder - S/T,
Slough Feg - Ape Uprising ,
SubArachnoid Space - Eight Bells
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions ,
The Gates of Slumber - Hymns Of Blood And Thunder ,
While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose ,
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade ,
Woods - Songs Of Shame ,
Woods Family Creeps - Woods Family Creeps ,
Yob - The Great Cessation ,
Zombi - Spirit Animal ,
Zu - Carboniferous ,

Pretty good year for me personally.

Mastodon, with Fever Ray as a close second

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missed this one, i would've voted for midtown 120 blues. cool that it still has so much support despite never being available to stream (afaik.) thankful for this poll and tim f bringing the electrik red album back to my attention for the first time in at least ten years, so so good

Do not know this band Wild Beasts. Now playing...

2009 might not have been great for albums, but going back through some old mix comps recently led to rediscovering some absolute gold.

Surely this was one of the best things to come out of that late-2000s dubstep era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0uc3IRU8To