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The Best Albums of 2009

My favourite albums of the year.

1. The XX: XX
2. Fever Ray: Fever Ray
3. Kronos Quartet: Floodplain
4. Tom Waits: Glitter and Doom Live
5. Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport
6. Patrick Watson: Wooden Arms
7. Mi Ami: Watersports
8. White Denim: Fits

The XX and Fever Ray are really the stand-out albums of the year. The live album by Tom Waits is one that I expect to be listening to for years to come. The album by Kronos Quartet is hard to classify. It's not exactly classical, so I've included it here as well. I don't listen to Mi Ami and Sun O))) that often, but I used them in the studio during rehearsals.

I tried listening to the latest albums by Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion and The Flaming Lips: Embryonic, both of which were critically acclaimed, but I just don't like the sound.

Pitchfork's list of the top 50 albums of 2009. The best albums of 2009 according to Dutch music critics.