The Fishpork 20: Favorite Albums of 2009

2009 started off as one of the strongest years for music in the decade but then slipped into a summer that left us scratching our heads and yearning for more. An impressive set of Fall releases surprised their way onto our Favorites List and cemented 2009 as a year that will impress music lovers in retrospect. These are our favorite albums from the past year:

1. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest

2. Fever Ray – Fever Ray

3. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion

4. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport

5. Built to Spill – There Is No Enemy

6. Atlas Sound – Logos

7. Morrissey – Years of Refusal

8. Dredg – The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion

9. White Lies – To Lose Your Life

10. Moderat – Moderat

11. The Mars Volta – Octahedron

12. MC Rut – Middle Class Rut

13. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca

14. Great Northern – Remind Me Where The Light Is

15. HEALTH – Get Color

16. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

17. The Flaming Lips – Embyronic

18. Bat For Lashes – Two Suns

19. Isis – Wavering Radiant

20. Royksopp – Junior

Most Disappointing Albums:

• Lotus Plaza – The Floodlight Collective
• Wilco – Wilco (The Album)

May’s Fresh Pork Cuts

Mark’s:

• Deerhunter – “Rainwater Cassette Exchange”
• Dredg – “Saviour”
• Royksopp – “Happy Up Here (Holy Fuck Remix)”
• Atlas Sound – “Time Warp”
• HEALTH – “Die Slow”

Pete’s:

• Bat For Lashes – “Pearl’s Dream”
• Isis – “Hall of the Dead”
• A Shoreline Dream – “Hypermode”
• Great Northern – “Warning”
• The Crystal Method featuring Matisyahu – “Drown In The Now”