Best of 2009

Rather than write out the whys and explanations this year I've included auditory proof. At the bottom find two downloads featuring one track from each of these top 50 albums. The tracks are in reverse order... from 50 to 01.

But really you can trust me. These are the best albums of 2009. Or you can debate it... I welcome the challenge.

-Eric
Backstreet Fredericton

01 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

02 Antony and The Johnsons - The Crying Light

03 The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love

04 The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away

05 Iron and Wine - Around The Well

06 Castanets - Texas Rose the Thaw and the Beasts

07 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
      
 
08 Hallelujah The Hills - Colonial Drones

09 Megafaun - Gather, Form and Fly

 
10 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca     
11 Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs               
12 Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free               
13 The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come           
14 Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem   
15 Atlas Sound - Logos               
16 Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle               
17 Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy           
18 Charles Spearin - The Happiness Project               
19 The Antlers - Hospice          
20 The Dutchess and the Duke - Sunrise / Sunset   
21 Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre   
22 Zak Sally - Fear Of Song   
23 Tiny Vipers - Life on Earth   
24 Slaraffenland - We're on Your Side
25 The Pastels / Tenniscoats - Two Sunsets 
26 Alec Ounsworth - Mo Beauty       
27 Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love
28 Throw Me the Statue - Creaturesque   
29 Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster           
30 The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns   
31 Japandroids - Post-Nothing   
32 The Curious Mystery - Rotting Slowly   
33 Vic Chesnutt - At The Cut           
34 To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie - Marlone               
35 Simone White - Yakiimo           
36 Girls - Album           
37 Harlem Shakes - Technicolor Health       
38 Bowerbirds - Upper Air   
39 BLK JKS - After Robots           
40 Sonic Youth - The Eternal   
41 Rick White - 137           
42 David Sylvian - Manafon   
43 Helado Negro - Awe Owe              
44 Six Organs of Admittance - Luminous Night           
45 Why? -  Eskimo Snow          
46 Here We Go Magic - Here We Go Magic           
47 Taken By Trees - East of Eden       
48 Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware           
49 Le Loup - Family
50 Nurses - Apples Acres

Part one:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/iz5zn2njwtq/best of 2009 - 50to26.mp3
Part two:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zwycwmlqm1o/best of 2009 - 25to01.mp3