“loveless” selects the best music of 2009

Top 20 Albums of the Year

1. Animal Collective – “Merriweather Post Pavilion”
2. Grizzly Bear – “Veckatimest”
3. Dirty Projectors – “Bitte Orca”
4. Phoenix – “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix”
5. Bat for Lashes – “Two Suns”
6. St. Vincent – “Actor”
7. Bon Iver – “Blood Bank EP”
8. Girls – “Album”
9. Dark Was the Night (Compilation)
10. Dan Deacon – “Bromst”
11. Atlas Sound – “Logos”
12. Sunset Rubdown – “Dragonslayer”
13. Neko Case – “Middle Cyclone”
14. The XX – “XX”
15. Fever Ray – “Fever Ray”
16. Junior Boys – “Begone Dull Care”
17. Ramona Falls – “Intuit”
18. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – “S/T”
19. A Sunny Day in Glasgow – “Ashes Grammar”
20. Beirut – “March of the Zapotec EP”

Honorable Mentions:

The Antlers – “Hospice”
Bob Dylan – “Together Through Life”
Cymbals Eat Guitars – “Why There Are Mountains”
Camera Obscura – “My Maudlin Career”
Mirah – “(a)spera”

Top 5 Songs of the Year

1. Dirty Projectors + David Byrne – “Knotty Pine”
2. Girls – “Lust for Life”
3. Animal Collective – “My Girls”
4. Grizzly Bear – “Two Weeks”
5. Phoenix – “Listztomania”

Top 5 Most Anticipated Albums of 2010

1. Beach House – “Teen Dream”
2. Joanna Newsom – (Untitled)
3. Owen Pallett (formerly Final Fantasy) – “Heartland”
4. MGMT – “Congratulations”
5. Liars – “Sisterworld”