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> PopMatters's Highest Rated Albums of 2009
PopMatters's Highest Rated Albums of 2009
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Brother Ali
Us
September 22nd, 2009
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MP3
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Vinyl
10
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Real Estate
Real Estate
November 17th, 2009
CD
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MP3
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Vinyl
9
3
Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest
May 26th, 2009
CD
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MP3
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Vinyl
9
4
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse
Dark Night of the Soul
June 2nd, 2009
Vinyl
9
5
The Cave Singers
Welcome Joy
August 18th, 2009
CD
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MP3
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Vinyl
9
6
The Mountain Goats
The Life of the World to Come
October 6th, 2009
CD
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Vinyl
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Discuss
9
7
Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics
Inspiration Information, Vol. 3
April 14th, 2009
CD
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Vinyl
9
8
Mountains
Choral
February 17th, 2009
CD
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MP3
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Vinyl
9
9
Maxwell
BLACKsummers'night
July 7th, 2009
CD
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MP3
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Vinyl
9
10
Steve Earle
Townes
May 12th, 2009
CD
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Vinyl
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Discuss
9
11
Mount Eerie
Wind's Poem
August 18th, 2009
CD
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MP3
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Vinyl
9
12
Staff Benda Bilili
Tres Tres Fort
March 24th, 2009
CD
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MP3
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Vinyl
9
13
Circulatory System
Signal Morning
September 8th, 2009
CD
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MP3
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Vinyl
9
14
Akron/Family
Set Em Wild, Set Em Free
May 5th, 2009
CD
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MP3
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Vinyl
9
15
Converge
Axe To Fall
October 20th, 2009
CD
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MP3
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Vinyl
9
16
Fever Ray
Fever Ray
January 13th, 2009
CD
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MP3
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Vinyl
9
17
Madness
The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
September 29th, 2009
CD
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MP3
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Vinyl
9
18
BLK JKS
After Robots
September 8th, 2009
CD
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MP3
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Vinyl
9
19
Sufjan Stevens
The BQE
October 20th, 2009
CD
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Vinyl
9
20
The Clientele
Bonfires on the Heath
October 6th, 2009
CD
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MP3
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Vinyl
9
21
Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
January 20th, 2009
CD
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MP3
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Vinyl
9
22
Rhett Miller
Rhett Miller
June 9th, 2009
CD
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Vinyl
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Discuss
9
23
Allen Toussaint
The Bright Mississippi
April 21st, 2009
CD
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MP3
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Vinyl
9
24
Goran Bregovic
Alkohol
May 19th, 2009
CD
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MP3
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Vinyl
9
25
Florence and the Machine
Lungs
July 6th, 2009
CD
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MP3
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Vinyl
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