Here are my best albums for 2009. Later on this week or weekend, I will post the top 50 albums from 2000-2009.
20. Karen O and the Kids – Where the Wild Things Are

Album Favorites: All is Love & Rumpus
19. Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications

Album Favorites: Further Complications & Angela
18. Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe

Album Favorites: Wrong & In Chains
17. the Dodos - Time to Die

Album Favorites: Fables & Small Deaths
16. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career

Album Favorites - French Navy & Honey in the Sun
15. Sonic Youth - The Eternal

Album Favorites: Sacred Trickster & Anti-Orgasm
14. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

Album Favorites: Crying Lightning & Cornerstone
13. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains

Album Favorites: Indiana & Wind Phoenix
12. Beirut - March of the Zapotec and Realpeople Holland

Album Favorites: My Night with a Prostitute from Marseille & La Llorona
11. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Album Favorites: My Girls & In The Flowers
10. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years

Album Favorites: Inaugural Trams & Helium Hearts
9. Mos Def - The Ecstatic

Album Favorites: Supermagic & Twilite Speedball
8. Flaming Lips - Embryonic

Album Favorites: Convinced of the Hex & Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine
7. Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid

Album Favorites: I Want Some More & Mean Monsoon
6. Doves - Kingdom of Rust

Album Favorites: Kingdom of Rust & House of Mirrors
5. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Album Favorites: Lisztomania & 1901
4. Raveonettes - In and Out of Control

Album Favorites: Suicide & Bang
3. Japandroids - Post-Nothing

Album Favorites: The Boys are Leaving Town & Young Hearts Spark Fire
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

Album Favorites: Heads Will Roll & Zero
1. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Album Favorites: Young Adult Friction, Everything With You, Come Saturday & This Love is Fucking Right