Pitchfork's Highest Rated Albums of 2009

1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

MUST HEAR

2. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

3. Girls - Album

MUST HEAR

4. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport

5. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

6. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

MUST HEAR

7. Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind EP

MUST HEAR

8. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II

9. The xx - xx

MUST HEAR

10. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms

11. The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa

12. jj - jj n° 2

13. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light

14. Real Estate - Real Estate

MUST HEAR

15. Converge - Axe To Fall

16. Baroness - Blue Record

17. YACHT - See Mystery Lights

18. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm

19. Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions

20. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

21. St. Vincent - Actor

22. Isis - Wavering Radiant

23. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns

24. Dan Deacon - Bromst

25. The Antlers - Hospice