1. Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me
2. Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest
3. Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma
4. Janelle Monae: The ArchAndroid
5-6. The Tallest Man on Earth: The Wild Hunt / Sometimes the Blues is Just a Passing Bird EP
7. Gonjasufi: A Sufi and a Killer
8-9. Madlib: Slave Riot / Madlib Medicine Show #6: The Brain-Wreck Show
10. The Roots: How I Got Over
11. Vampire Weekend: Contra
12. No Age: Everything in Between
13. Johnny Cash: Ain’t No Grave
14-15. James Blake: CMYK EP / Klavierwerke EP
16-17. Das Racist: Shut Up, Dude / Sit Down, Man
18. TOKiMONSTA: Midnight Menu
19. Shugo Tokumaru: Port Entropy
20. LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening
Also, here are my favorite albums from 2009:
1. Bill Callahan: Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
2. The Mountain Goats: The Life of the World to Come
3. Leonard Cohen: Live in London
4. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. Tune-Yards: Bird Brains
6-7. Shabazz Palaces: Of Light EP / Shabazz Palaces EP
8. DOOM: Born Like This
9. Mos Def: The Ecstatic
10-11. Andrew Bird: Noble Beast / Useless Creatures
12. Nosaj Thing: Drift
13. Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca
14. Dan Deacon: Bromst
15. The xx: xx
16-17. Serengeti and Polyphonic: Terradactyl / Serengeti: Conversations with Kenny/Legacy of Lee
18. No Age: Losing Feeling EP
19. Ras_G & the Afrikan Space Program: Brotha from Anotha Planet
20. The Flaming Lips: Embryonic
