Pitchfork 2009 Albums Ballot
01 | Mastodon: Crack the Skye (Reprise)
02 | Future of the Left: Travels With Myself and Another (4AD)
03 | Converge: Axe to Fall (Epitaph)
04 | the Field: Yesterday and Today (Anti-)
05 | Tortoise: Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)
06 | Isis: Wavering Radiant (Ipecac)
07 | Bat for Lashes: Two Suns (Astralwerks)
08 | the Pains of Being Pure at Heart: the Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Slumberland)
09 | Camera Obscura: My Maudlin Career (4AD)
10 | the Very Best: Warm Heart of Africa (Green Owl Records)
11 | Rokia Traoré: Tchamantché (Nonesuch)
12 | Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
13 | Paramore: Brand New Eyes (Fueled by Ramen)
14 | the Handsome Family: Honey Moon (Carrot Top)
15 | Soulsavers: Broken (V2)
16 | the Wooden Birds: Magnolia (Barsuk)
17 | Big Business: Mind the Drift (Redeye)
18 | Marissa Nadler: Little Hells (Kemado)
19 | Antony & the Johnsons: the Crying Light (Secretly Canadian)
20 | Bill Callahan: Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (Drag City)
21 | the Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca (Domino)
22 | Yo La Tengo: Popular Songs (Matador)
23 | Serena Ryder: Is It O.K. (Atlantic)
24 | Sonos: SonoSings (Verve Forecast)
25 | Zak Sally: Fear of Song (Lamano21)
26 | Sonic Youth: the Eternal (Matador)
27 | Pelican: What We All Come to Need (Southern Lord)
28 | Sir Richard Bishop: the Freak of Araby (Drag City)
29 | Fever Ray: Fever Ray (Mute)
30 | Califone: All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (Dead Oceans)
31 | Deleted Scenes: Birdseed Shirt (What Delicate Sound)
32 | Magnolia Electric Co.: Josephine (Secretly Canadian)
33 | Sian Alice Group: Troubled, Shaken Etc. (The Social Registry)
34 | A Sunny Day in Glasgow: Ashes Grammar (Carrot Top)
35 | Au Revoir Simone: Still Night, Still Light (Our Secret Records)
36 | Handsome Furs: Face Control (Sub Pop)
37 | Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note)
38 | Bon Iver: Blood Bank EP (Jagjaguwar)
39 | Thao with the Get Down Stay Down: Know Better Learn Faster (Kill Rock Stars)
40 | Andrew Bird: Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
41 | Bowerbirds: Upper Air (Dead Oceans)
42 | Annie: Don't Stop (Smalltown Supersound)
43 | Liechtenstein: Survival Strategies in a Modern World (Slumberland)
44 | the Blackjacks: the Blackjacks (self-released)
45 | Patrick Wolf: the Bachelor (Red Distribution)
46 | Son Volt: American Central Dust (Rounder)
47 | the Fiery Furnaces: I'm Going Away (Thrill Jockey)
48 | Neko Case: Middle Cyclone (Anti-)
49 | St. Vincent: Actor (4AD)
50 | Dethklok: Dethalbum II (Adult Swim)
.: Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2009
