Top 77 Albums of 2009
| ARTIST | ALBUM | LABEL | ||
| 1 | Animal Collective | Merriweather Post Pavillion | Domino | |
| 2 | Grizzly Bear | Veckatimest | Warp | |
| 3 | Fever Ray | Fever Ray | Mute | |
| 4 | Phoenix | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | Glassnote | |
| 5 | Dirty Projectors | Bitte Orca | Domino | |
| 6 | The xx | xx | Young Turks | |
| 7 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | It's Blitz! | Interscope | |
| 8 | Phantogram | Phantogram [EP] | Self-released/Ce | |
| 9 | St. Vincent | Actor | 4AD | |
| 10 | Lookbook | Wild at Heart | Self-released | |
| 11 | Bibio | Ambivalence Avenue | Warp | |
| 12 | P.O.S | Never Better | Rhymesayers | |
| 13 | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | Slumberland | |
| 14 | The Flaming Lips | Embryonic | Warner Brothers | |
| 15 | Atlas Sound | Logos | Kranky | |
| 16 | Vampire Hands | Hannah in the Mansion | St. Ives | |
| 17 | Japandroids | Post Nothing | Polyvinyl | |
| 18 | Neko Case | Middle Cyclone | ANTI- | |
| 19 | Handsome Furs | Face Control | Sub Pop | |
| 20 | Brother Ali | Us | Rhymesayers | |
| 21 | Dinosaur Jr | Farm | Jagjaguwar | |
| 22 | Metric | Fantasies | Self-released | |
| 23 | Bat For Lashes | Two Suns | Astralwerks | |
| 24 | The Raveonettes | In and Out of Control | Vice | |
| 25 | Fuck Buttons | Tarot Sport | ATP | |
| 26 | Sunset Rubdown | Dragonslayer | Jagjaguwar | |
| 27 | Yo La Tengo | Popular Songs | Matador | |
| 28 | El Perro del Mar | Love Is Not Pop | The Control Group | |
| 29 | Here We Go Magic | Here We Go Magic | Western Vinyl | |
| 30 | Wilco | Wilco (The Album) | Nonesuch | |
| 31 | Deerhunter | Rainwater Cassette Exchange [EP] | Kranky | |
| 32 | Sonic Youth | The Eternal | Matador | |
| 33 | Girls | Album | True Panther Sounds | |
| 34 | Zoo Animal | Young Blood | Self-released | |
| 35 | Black Moth Super Rainbow | Eating Us | Graveface | |
| 36 | The Big Pink | A Brief History of Love | 4AD | |
| 37 | Kurt Vile | Childish Prodigy | Matador | |
| 38 | Doom | Born Like This | Lex | |
| 39 | Kings of Convenience | Declaration of Dependence | Astralwerks | |
| 40 | Passion Pit | Manners | Frenchkiss | |
| 41 | Red Pens | Reasons | Self-released/Grain Belt | |
| 42 | Anni Rossi | Rockwell | 4AD | |
| 43 | Why? | Eskimo Snow | anticon. | |
| 44 | Mos Def | The Ecstatic | Downtown | |
| 45 | Eyedea & Abilities | By The Throat | Rhymesayers | |
| 46 | The King Khan & BBQ Show | Invisible Girl | In The Red | |
| 47 | Future Of The Left | Travels With Myself And Another | 4AD | |
| 48 | A Sunny Day in Glasgow | Ashes Grammar | Mis Ojos Discos | |
| 49 | Kill The Vultures | Ecce Beast | Self-released | |
| 50 | Julie Doiron | I Can Wonder What You Did With You | Jagjaguwar | |
| 51 | Gay Witch Abortion | Maverick | Learning Curve | |
| 52 | Black Lips | 200 Million Thousand | Vice | |
| 53 | Mayer Hawthorne | A Strange Arrangement | Stones Throw | |
| 54 | Neon Indian | Psychic Chasms | Lefse | |
| 55 | The Chambermaids | Down in the Berries [EP] | Modern Radio | |
| 56 | Mount Eerie | Wind's Poem | P.W. Elverum & Son | |
| 57 | The Antlers | Hospice | Frenchkiss | |
| 58 | Wild Beasts | Two Dancers | Domino | |
| 59 | Bill Callahan | Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle | Drag City | |
| 60 | tUnE-yArDs | BiRd-BrAiNs | Marriage/4AD | |
| 61 | Andrew Bird | Noble Beast | Fat Possum | |
| 62 | Gospel Gossip | Dreamland [EP] | Guilt Ridden Pop | |
| 63 | Ramona Falls | Intuit | Barsuk | |
| 64 | Yacht | See Mystery Lights | DFA | |
| 65 | Antony & The Johnsons | The Crying Light | Secretly Canadian | |
| 66 | PJ Harvey & John Parish | A Woman a Man Walked By | Island | |
| 67 | Jay Reatard | Watch Me Fall | Matador | |
| 68 | Magnolia Electric Co. | Josephine | Secretly Canadian | |
| 69 | Daughters of the Sun | Rings | Modern Radio | |
| 70 | Heartless Bastards | The Mountain | Fat Possum | |
| 71 | Dan Deacon | Bromst | Carpark | |
| 72 | Lucy Michelle & the Velvet Lapelles | Special Party Time For Everyone | Self-released | |
| 73 | Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zer | Up From Below | Vagrant | |
| 74 | Thee Oh Sees | Help | In The Red | |
| 75 | Woods | Songs of Shame | Woodsist | |
| 76 | Cass McCombs | Catacombs | Domino | |
| 77 | Themselves | CrownsDown | anticon. |
