AllMusic's Favorite Albums of 2009
Dec. 15, 2009
Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Antipop Consortium - Fluorescent Black
Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
Baroness - Blue Record
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
The Black Crowes - Before the Frost/Until the Freeze
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Brandi Carlile - Give Up the Ghost
Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Rosanne Cash - The List
Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
Dälek - Gutter Tactics
Dâm-Funk - Toeachizown
The Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Drake - So Far Gone (Explicit)
The-Dream - Love vs Money
Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Jan Garbarek Group - Dresden: In Concert
Girls - Album
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Hudson Mohawke - Butter
Shafiq Husayn - Shafiq En' A-Free-Ka
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Norah Jones - The Fall
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day
King Midas Sound - Waiting for You
La Roux - La Roux
Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
Miranda Lambert - Revolution
Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Radio
Little Boots - Hands
Madness - The The Liberty of Norton Folgate
Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do
Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night
Mika - The Boy Who Knew Too Much
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Os Mutantes - Haih...Ou Amortecedor...
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
David "Fathead" Newman - The Blessing
Brad Paisley - American Saturday Night
Pelican - What We All Come to Need
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Roberto Juan Rodriguez - The First Basket
St. Vincent - Actor
Shakira - She Wolf
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
The Swell Season - Strict Joy
David Sylvian - Manafon
Tanya Morgan - Brooklynati
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Allen Toussaint - The Bright Mississippi
Moritz von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
Wale - Attention Deficit
Sara Watkins - Sara Watkins
Weezer - Raditude
Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
The xx - XX
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
Various Artists - 5 Years of Hyperdub
Classical Releases
Gerd Albrecht - Hans Werner Henze: Gogo no eiku
Lief Ove Andsnes - Shadows of Silence
Artemis Quartet - The Piazzolla Project
Cecilia Bartoli, Il Giardino Armonico - Sacrificium
Bartosz Cajler, Symphony Orchestra of the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic in Bialystok, Marcin Naleçz-Niesiolowski - Alexandre Tansman: Cinq Pièces; Violin Concerto; Suite Baroque
Cinquecento - Jacobus Vaet: Missa Ego flos campi
Dallas Wind Symphony - Lincolnshire Posy: Music for Band by Percy Grainger
Forde Ensemble - Spohr: Double Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique - Brahms: Symphony No. 2
Hildegurls - Electric Ordo Virtutum
Paul Hillier - David Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion
Phil Kline - John the Revelator
Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich - The Berlin Recital
Kronos Quartet - Floodplain
Sir Charles Mackerras, Staatskapelle Dresden, Staatsopernchor Dresden - Schubert: Messe in Es; Mozart: Vesparae Solennes de Confessore
Jun Märkl - Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi; Les offrandes oubliées; Un sourire
Maki Namekawa & Dennis Russell Davies - Philip Glass: Piano Music
Jonathan Nott, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Ralf Otto, Mainz Bach Choir - Mozart: Requiem (edited by Robert D. Levin)
Maria João Pires - Chopin
Bente Vist - Per Nøgärd: Seadrift
Xiayin Wang - Scriabin: Piano Music
Alastair Willis, Nashville Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - Maurice Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortilèges; Shéhérazade
Benjamin Zander, Philharmonia Orchestra - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Antipop Consortium - Fluorescent Black
Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
Baroness - Blue Record
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
The Black Crowes - Before the Frost/Until the Freeze
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Brandi Carlile - Give Up the Ghost
Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Rosanne Cash - The List
Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
Dälek - Gutter Tactics
Dâm-Funk - Toeachizown
The Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Drake - So Far Gone (Explicit)
The-Dream - Love vs Money
Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Jan Garbarek Group - Dresden: In Concert
Girls - Album
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Hudson Mohawke - Butter
Shafiq Husayn - Shafiq En' A-Free-Ka
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Norah Jones - The Fall
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day
King Midas Sound - Waiting for You
La Roux - La Roux
Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
Miranda Lambert - Revolution
Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Radio
Little Boots - Hands
Madness - The The Liberty of Norton Folgate
Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do
Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night
Mika - The Boy Who Knew Too Much
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Os Mutantes - Haih...Ou Amortecedor...
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
David "Fathead" Newman - The Blessing
Brad Paisley - American Saturday Night
Pelican - What We All Come to Need
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Roberto Juan Rodriguez - The First Basket
St. Vincent - Actor
Shakira - She Wolf
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
The Swell Season - Strict Joy
David Sylvian - Manafon
Tanya Morgan - Brooklynati
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Allen Toussaint - The Bright Mississippi
Moritz von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
Wale - Attention Deficit
Sara Watkins - Sara Watkins
Weezer - Raditude
Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
The xx - XX
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
Various Artists - 5 Years of Hyperdub
Classical Releases
Gerd Albrecht - Hans Werner Henze: Gogo no eiku
Lief Ove Andsnes - Shadows of Silence
Artemis Quartet - The Piazzolla Project
Cecilia Bartoli, Il Giardino Armonico - Sacrificium
Bartosz Cajler, Symphony Orchestra of the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic in Bialystok, Marcin Naleçz-Niesiolowski - Alexandre Tansman: Cinq Pièces; Violin Concerto; Suite Baroque
Cinquecento - Jacobus Vaet: Missa Ego flos campi
Dallas Wind Symphony - Lincolnshire Posy: Music for Band by Percy Grainger
Forde Ensemble - Spohr: Double Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique - Brahms: Symphony No. 2
Hildegurls - Electric Ordo Virtutum
Paul Hillier - David Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion
Phil Kline - John the Revelator
Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich - The Berlin Recital
Kronos Quartet - Floodplain
Sir Charles Mackerras, Staatskapelle Dresden, Staatsopernchor Dresden - Schubert: Messe in Es; Mozart: Vesparae Solennes de Confessore
Jun Märkl - Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi; Les offrandes oubliées; Un sourire
Maki Namekawa & Dennis Russell Davies - Philip Glass: Piano Music
Jonathan Nott, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Ralf Otto, Mainz Bach Choir - Mozart: Requiem (edited by Robert D. Levin)
Maria João Pires - Chopin
Bente Vist - Per Nøgärd: Seadrift
Xiayin Wang - Scriabin: Piano Music
Alastair Willis, Nashville Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - Maurice Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortilèges; Shéhérazade
Benjamin Zander, Philharmonia Orchestra - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5