Music Blog Zeitgeist 2009
The Top 50 Albums of 2009 sourced from 550 bloggers personal Top 10 lists weighted according to their ranking.
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| TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2009 | 50-41 | 40-31 | 30-21 | 20-11 | 10-1 |
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10Girls • Album
“The combo of a really messed up childhood and copious amounts of pills tends to lead to two things: death and superior albums.” — Quick! Start the reactor!
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9Fever Ray • Fever Ray
“Soaring synths and spectacular vocals with a minimal flair firmly establish Andersson as an entity separate from The Knife.” — Take A Beating
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8Antlers • Hospice
“Vocalist Peter Silberman's harrowing tale of losing a loved one to cancer is heart-rendering and his delicate voice perfectly narrates the ordeal.” — Skinny Ankles
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6Yeah Yeah Yeahs • It's Blitz!
“Equal parts finesse and grind like only the YYY's can do. It's intimate but it's glamorous. It's dancy but it's badass. It's so Karen O.” — For Amusement Only
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5The XX • XX
“There's such a sense of honest expression of affection and companionship to the record that it piques my curiosity to hear it again and listen more closely each time. ” — bigmouth strikes again
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4Dirty Projectors • Bitte Orca
“These oddly gorgeous compositions blend folk and funk and R&B styles to generate songs that are difficult to classify but very satisfying to the ear.” — Faronheit
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3Phoenix • Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
“This is pop of not only the catchiest variety, but of the most Populist order. In other words, this is Pop the way it should be.” — So This Is What The Volume Knob's For
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2Grizzly Bear • Veckatimest
“This is not rocking out music. This is listening music. This is art. This is stop you in your headspace and make you be quiet rock.” — Complicated Game
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1Animal Collective • Merriweather Post Pavilion
“It really wasn't even a contest for number one this year. Merriweather pretty much blew everything else away in my book.” — A VC
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The Music Blog Zeitgeist data is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. It was compiled from 551 lists. You can also download the data used to prepare these lists here: raw data, compiled data.
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| 50 ALBUMS | 50-41 | 40-31 | 30-21 | 20-11 | 10-1 |