Best Music of 2009

Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca (Domino)
Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)
Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume 1 (Pi)
Heliocentrics & Mulatu Astatke: Inspiration Information 3 (Strut)
Flaming Lips: Embryonic (Warner Bros.)
Get ‘Em Mamis: TerAwesome (Darkroom)
Dan Deacon: Bromst (Carpark)
Georgia Anne Muldrow: Umsindo (SomeOthaShip)
Dustin Wong: Seasons (Wildfire Wildfire)
Felice Bros: Yonder Is the Clock (Team Love)
Hypnotic Brass Enemble: Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (Honest Jon’s)
BSO: Bernstein’s Mass (Naxos)
Neko Case: Middle Cyclone (Anti)
Mos Def: The Ecstatic (Downtown)
Cass McCombs: Catacombs (Domino)
The xx: The xx (Young Turks)
Shannon McNally: Coldwater (Independent)
Tinariwen: Imidiwan: Companions (Independent)
Wilco: Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch)
Wye Oak: The Knot (Merge)
tUnE-yArDs: BiRd-BrAiNs (4AD)

Reissue
Big Star: Keep an Eye on the Sky (Rhino)

Tribute
Various Artists: Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy (Shout Factory)

Idea

Various Artists: Splice Today Presents Baltimore Does Baltimore (Wye Oak covering Rod Lee's "Dance My Pain Away" is pure genius.)