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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. Dan Deacon: Bromst (Carpark)
    7/10
  2. L'Acephale: Stahlhartes Gehause (Aurora Borealis)
  3. Azita: How Will You (Drag City)
  4. Fever Ray: Fever Ray (Rabid)
    Recommended listening:
  5. Bat For Lashes: Two Suns (Astralwerks)
  6. Telefon Tel Aviv: Immolate Yourself (2009)
  7. Patrick Wolf: The Bachelor (2009)
  8. Memory Tapes: Seek Magic (2009)
  9. The Horrors: Primary Colours (2009)
  10. Intrusion: The Seduction of Silence (2009)
  11. Mew: No More Stories (2009)
  12. Official Secrets Act: Understanding Electricity
  13. Piano Magic: Ovations (2009)
  14. Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms (2009)
  15. Eels: Hombre Lobo - 12 Songs of Desire (2009)
  16. White Lies: To Lose My Life (2009)
  17. Inade: The Incarnation of the Solar Architects (2009)
  18. Dalek: Gutter Tactics (2009)
  19. Editors: In This Light and on This Evening (2009)
  20. Franz Ferdinand: Tonight(2009)
  21. Fahrenheit Fair Enough (Hefty!, 2001)
  22. Map Of What Is Effortless (Hefty!, 2004)
  23. Uochi Toki: Libro audio (2009)
  24. White Lies: To Lose My Life (2009)
  25. Josh Wink: When a Banana Was Just a Banana (2009)
  26. Arctic Monkeys: Humbug (2009)
  27. Current 93: Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain (2009)
  28. The Flaming Lips: Embryonic (2009)
  29. Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport (2009)
  30. David Sylvian: Manafon (2009)
  31. Richard Youngs: Beyond the Valley of Ultrahits (2009)
  32. Atlas Sound: Logos (2009)
  33. The Duckworth Lewis Method: The Duckworth Lewis Method (2009)
  34. The Juan Maclean: The Future Will Come (2009)
  35. Junior Boys: Begone Dull Care (2009)
  36. Shit And Shine: 229-2299 Girls Against Shit! (Riot Season)
  37. Billy Bao: May 08 (Parts Unknown)
  38. James Blackshaw: The Glass Bead Game (Young God)
  39. Tim Hecker: An Imaginary Country (Kranky)
  40. Legion Of Two: Riffs (Planet Mu)
  41. Irr. App. (Ext.): Kreiselwelle (The Helen Scarsdale Agency)
  42. Neko Case: Middle Cyclone (Anti)
  43. Aluk Todolo: Finsternis (Utech Records)
  44. Amen Dunes: Dia (Locust)
  45. Astral Social Club: Octuplex (VHF)
  46. Black Vomit: Jungle Death (Rusty Axe)
  47. Cloaks: Versus Grain (Baked Goods)
  48. Church Of Misery: Houses Of The Unholy (Rise Above)
  49. Clubroot: Clubroot (LoDubs)
  50. William Fowler Collins: Perdition Hill Radio (Type)
  51. Gog: Mist From The Random More (Utech Records)
  52. Emeralds: What Happened (No Fun Productions)
  53. Sunn O))): Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord)
  54. Bibio: Ambivalence Avenue (Warp
  55. Isis: Wavering Radiant (Ipecac)
  56. Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest (Warp)
  57. St Vincent: Actor (4AD)
  58. Antlers: Hospice (Frenchkiss)
  59. Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca (Domino)
Playlist
  1. Dan Deacon: Build Voice
  2. Fever Ray: If I Had A Heart
  3. Pains Of Being Pure At Heart: The Tenure Itch
  4. Azita: I'm Happy
  5. Terminal Sound System: Constructing Towers
  6. Decemberists: The Rake's Song
  7. Azita: Away
  8. Bachelorette: Mindwarp
  9. Animal Collective: Summertime Clothes
  10. Bill Callahan: Eid Ma Clack Shaw
  11. Fever Ray: Now's The Only Time I Know

Extended tracks
  1. L'Acephale: Stahlhartes Gehause
  2. Masaki Batoh & Helena Espvall: Until Tomorrow
  3. Erdem Helvacioglu: Lead Crystal Marbles
Jazz
  1. Dave Hurley: Outer Nebula, Inner Nebula (Porter)
  2. Nels Cline: Coward

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