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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50Mumford & Sons • Sigh No More
“Evocative harmonising vocals + double bass and banjo = awesome.” — Insanity In Numbers
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49Brand New • Daisy
“...difficult and perplexing listen but beautiful and rewarding at the same time” — Kyle Bunkin
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47Kid Cudi • Man on the Moon: The End of Day
“Cudi articulates a sense of alienation vis-a-vis hip-hop, mass culture, and life in general over languorous, Sudafed-soaked melodies and bleak beats punctuated with distorted guitar riffs and melancholy orchestral hums.” — Stereo Subversion
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46Neon Indian • Psychic Chasms
“...throwing on your earbuds and listening to this album will make you forget all about the cold” — Letters Home From Camp
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45Fanfarlo • Reservoir
“...a fantastic collection of layered instruments and voice, building in both sound and intensity.” — Where? Wear? Ware? House
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44Manchester Orchestra • Mean Everything To Nothing
“Andy Hull spits some fantastic prose and flawlessly switches from charming sincerity to disturbing anguish at the drop of a hat.” — Get Fresh.
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43The Big Pink • A Brief History of Love
“Huge without being silly, atmospheric without being limpid, it's just booming, thundering neo-shoegazer of the finest variety.” — Central Target
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42La Roux • La Roux
“A throwback to 80's music like Depeche Mode and Duran Duran but fits perfectly in 2009.” — Art Nouveau Magazine
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41Monsters Of Folk • Monsters Of Folk
“Getting all these egos together could have been a disaster, but as it turned out, Monsters of Folk is an effort worth the wait, and the time.” — Each Note Secure
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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 |