Best Alternative Rock Albums of 2009


01
Tigers on Trains
Songs By And About Whales

4.47
30 votes
02
Blue Roses
Blue Roses

4.43
14 votes
03
Dignan
Cheaters and Thieves

4.4
20 votes
04
Driftless Pony Club
Expert

4.26
34 votes
05
the GazettE
DISTRESS AND COMA -Auditory Impression-

4.26
25 votes
06
Tigers on Trains
Grandfather

4.25
568 votes
07
JEFF the Brotherhood
Heavy Days

4.23
22 votes
08
Local Natives
Sun Hands

4.23
40 votes
Systems Officer
Underslept

4.21
14 votes
10
The Antlers
Hospice

4.19
3732 votes
11
O'Brother
The Death of Day

4.18
456 votes
12
Monster Machismo
Aye Aye Porcupine

4.18
48 votes
13
Alexi Murdoch
Towards the Sun

4.18
17 votes
14
DM Stith
Heavy Ghost

4.17
19 votes
15
Karnivool
Sound Awake

4.17
1659 votes
16
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
What It Takes to Move Forward

4.17
821 votes
17
Ling Tosite Sigure
Just a Moment

4.17
426 votes
18
El-Creepo!
El-Creepo!

4.16
29 votes
19
Dan Mangan
Nice, Nice, Very Nice

4.15
97 votes
20
Kellermensch
Kellermensch

4.15
23 votes
21
Former Ghosts
Fleurs

4.15
24 votes
22
Drowning the Light
The Blood Of The Ancients

4.13
26 votes
23
Future of Forestry
Travel II

4.13
82 votes
24
The Life and Times
Tragic Boogie

4.13
60 votes
25
Elora Danan
In The Room Up There

4.13
19 votes
26
Sweet Trip
You Will Never Know Why

4.13
291 votes
27
John Frusciante
The Empyrean

4.13
619 votes
28
Carina Round
Things You Should Know

4.13
24 votes
29
Hypomanie
Hypomanie EP

4.13
24 votes
30
Paul Dempsey
Everything Is True

4.11
170 votes
31
Charles Spearin
The Happiness Project

4.11
28 votes
32
Metric
Plug In, Plug Out

4.11
38 votes
33
Ben Howard
These Waters

4.1
25 votes
34
Brandi Carlile
Give up the Ghost

4.09
16 votes
35
Tubelord
Our First American Friends

4.09
141 votes
36
toe
For Long Tomorrow

4.09
413 votes
37
P.O.S
Never Better

4.09
644 votes
38
Pretend
Bones In The Soil, Rust In The Oil

4.09
100 votes
39
Grammatics
Grammatics

4.09
74 votes
40
Eleventh He Reaches London
Hollow Be My Name

4.08
239 votes
41
Archives
Decline

4.08
115 votes
42
Jordaan Mason and The Horse Museum
Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head

4.08
212 votes
43
Sarah Fimm
Red Yellow Sun

4.07
27 votes
44
HRVRD
The Inevitable And I

4.07
365 votes
45
The Cambiata
The Cambiata

4.07
14 votes
46
Cassino
Kingprince

4.07
36 votes
47
Jon Gomm
Don't Panic

4.07
30 votes
48
John-Allison Weiss
Was Right All Along

4.07
30 votes
49
Gavin Castleton
Home

4.06
108 votes
50
Vienna Teng
Inland Territory

4.06
32 votes
51
Future of Forestry
Travel

4.06
66 votes
52
Mono
Hymn to the Immortal Wind

4.06
1118 votes
53
Manchester Orchestra
Mean Everything to Nothing

4.05
3282 votes
54
Viper the Rapper
Hiram Clarke Hustler

4.05
29 votes
55
Good Night and Good Morning
Good Night & Good Morning

4.04
18 votes
56
The Waters Deep Here
Sunden

4.04
31 votes
57
Wild Nothing
Summer Holiday 7"

4.04
26 votes
58
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster
Collapse

4.04
14 votes
59
Cougar
Patriot

4.04
14 votes
60
Arctic Monkeys
Cornerstone

4.03
30 votes
61
Children of Nova
The Complexity of Light

4.03
176 votes
62
Animal Collective
Fall Be Kind

4.03
819 votes
63
Relient K
Forget and Not Slow Down

4.03
382 votes
64
Vic Chesnutt
At The Cut

4.03
39 votes
65
This Armistice
(New Breath+New Heartbeat)=Change

4.03
20 votes
66
The Brave Little Abacus
Masked Dancers

4.02
180 votes
67
The Republic of Wolves
His Old Branches

4.02
348 votes
68
The Tumbled Sea
melody/summer

4.01
39 votes
69
Sights and Sounds
Monolith

4.01
215 votes
70
The Dear Hunter
Act III: Life and Death

4.01
2292 votes
71
Archive
Controlling Crowds

4.01
100 votes
72
Circulatory System
Signal Morning

4.01
100 votes
73
Kauan
Aava Tuulen Maa

4.01
79 votes
74
Laura Stevenson
Holy Ghost!

4.01
176 votes
75
Mew
No More Stories

4.01
670 votes
76
Giant Squid
The Ichthyologist

4
274 votes
77
Sleep Dealer
The Way Home

4
44 votes
78
Hey Rosetta!
Red Songs

4
21 votes
79
Land Of Talk
Fun And Laughter

4
20 votes
80
Dorena
Holofon

4
20 votes
81
The Love Language
The Love Language

4
18 votes
82
Il Teatro degli Orrori
A sangue freddo

4
16 votes
83
Gregory Alan Isakov
This Empty Northern Hemisphere

4
123 votes
84
Minus the Bear
Into the Mirror

4
216 votes
85
Paper Route
Absence

3.99
132 votes
86
Mass of the Fermenting Dregs
World Is Yours

3.99
294 votes
87
Various Artists (Indie)
Dark Was The Night

3.99
309 votes
88
Karnivool
Set Fire to the Hive

3.98
33 votes
89
From Indian Lakes
The Man With Wooden Legs

3.98
164 votes
90
Solstafir
Köld

3.98
208 votes
91
Rachel Grimes
Book Of Leaves

3.98
52 votes
92
All the Day Holiday
The Things We've Grown To Love

3.98
26 votes
93
And So I Watch You From Afar
And So I Watch You From Afar

3.98
602 votes
94
The Blue Angel Lounge
The Blue Angel Lounge

3.98
42 votes
95
Cast Spells
Bright Works and Baton

3.98
21 votes
96
Manic Street Preachers
Journal For Plague Lovers

3.97
272 votes
97
The Dangerous Summer
Reach for the Sun

3.97
326 votes
98
The Menzingers
Hold on, Dodge

3.97
134 votes
99
Do Make Say Think
Other Truths

3.97
298 votes
100
Parabelle
A Summit Borderline/A Drop Oceanic

3.97
96 votes
101
The Joy Formidable
A Balloon Called Moaning

3.97
135 votes
102
the GazettE
DIM

3.97
105 votes
103
Braveyoung
Bloom

3.97
15 votes
104
David Bazan
Curse Your Branches

3.97
88 votes
105
Crippled Black Phoenix
The Resurrectionists / Night Raider

3.96
70 votes
106
I Create
Complete Medley

3.96
28 votes
107
Rhian Sheehan
Standing in Silence

3.96
14 votes
108
Emery
...In Shallow Seas We Sail

3.96
1283 votes
109
Letting Up Despite Great Faults
Letting Up Despite Great Faults

3.96
48 votes
110
Blindead
Impulse

3.96
24 votes
111
Needtobreathe
The Outsiders

3.96
68 votes
112
tsosis
Blue Version

3.95
111 votes
113
Wild Beasts
Two Dancers

3.95
208 votes
114
St. Vincent
Actor

3.95
628 votes
115
Ship Thieves
Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves

3.95
20 votes
116
Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion

3.95
3006 votes
117
Sunset Rubdown
Dragonslayer

3.95
246 votes
118
Consider the Thief
Signs and Wonders

3.95
112 votes
119
Arstidir
Arstidir

3.94
18 votes
120
Mouse On The Keys
An Anxious Object

3.94
179 votes
121
Bill Callahan
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

3.94
169 votes
122
Sleeping at Last
Storyboards

3.94
142 votes
123
Nux Vomica
Asleep in the Ashes

3.94
17 votes
124
Prawn
False Institutions

3.94
116 votes
125
Junius
The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist

3.94
135 votes
126
Maybeshewill
Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony

3.93
473 votes
127
The Reptilian
Boys Life EP

3.93
36 votes
128
Long Distance Calling
Avoid The Light

3.93
171 votes
129
Love of Lesbian
1999

3.93
14 votes
130
David Crowder Band
Church Music

3.93
34 votes
131
Fugue
Ancient Glass

3.92
13 votes
132
Noah Gundersen
Saints & Liars

3.92
38 votes
133
CSTVT
Summer Fences

3.92
378 votes
134
fun.
Aim and Ignite

3.92
1028 votes
135
Sunlight Ascending
All the Memories, All at Once

3.92
43 votes
136
Closure in Moscow
First Temple

3.92
913 votes
137
sleepmakeswaves/Tangled Thoughts of Leaving
Split

3.92
18 votes
138
The Growlers
Are You In or Out?

3.92
18 votes
139
Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest

3.92
2554 votes
140
Sholi
Sholi

3.91
87 votes
141
Jolly
Forty-six Minutes, Twelve Seconds of Music

3.91
17 votes
142
Irepress
Sol Eye Sea I

3.91
243 votes
143
Dinosaur Jr.
Farm

3.91
1352 votes
144
Destroyer
Bay of Pigs

3.91
93 votes
145
Therapy?
Crooked Timber

3.91
90 votes
146
Balmorhea
All Is Wild, All Is Silent

3.9
84 votes
147
Shinobu
Strange Spring Air

3.9
21 votes
148
The Swell Season
Strict Joy

3.9
85 votes
149
The Jezabels
She's So Hard

3.9
168 votes
150
Arctic Monkeys
Crying Lightning

3.9
30 votes
151
Sucioperro
Pain Agency

3.9
25 votes
152
Graham Coxon
The Spinning Top

3.9
20 votes
153
A Fine Frenzy
Bomb In A Birdcage

3.9
64 votes
154
Rooftops
A Forest Of Polarity

3.9
54 votes
155
Akira Kosemura
Polaroid Piano

3.9
34 votes
156
Transit
Stay Home

3.9
105 votes
157
Tribal Seeds
The Harvest

3.89
19 votes
158
Arizmenda
Within the Vacuum of Infinity...

3.89
111 votes
159
Amber Daybreak
Sentinels

3.89
14 votes
160
Mount Eerie
Wind's Poem

3.89
692 votes
161
Cheap Girls
My Roaring 20s

3.89
64 votes
162
Soutaisei Riron
Hi-Fi Anatomia

3.89
82 votes
163
Lucero
1372 Overton Park

3.89
27 votes
164
Matthew Good
Vancouver

3.89
206 votes
165
Deas Vail
Birds & Cages

3.89
184 votes
166
Portugal. The Man
The Satanic Satanist

3.88
1476 votes
167
Coheed and Cambria
Neverender 12%

3.88
52 votes
168
The Black Atlantic
Reverence for Fallen Trees

3.88
13 votes
169
Apati
Eufori

3.88
13 votes
170
Russian Circles
Geneva

3.88
749 votes
171
Nana Grizol
Love It Love It

3.88
64 votes
172
Brand New
Daisy

3.88
7700 votes
173
Phoenix (FRA)
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

3.88
1253 votes
174
Airbag
Identity

3.88
33 votes
175
P.S. Eliot
Introverted Romance In Our Troubled Minds

3.88
45 votes
176
The Boxer Rebellion
Union

3.88
147 votes
177
Brother/Ghost
Black Ice

3.88
32 votes
178
Best Coast
Sun Was High (So Was I)

3.88
24 votes
179
Helen Earth Band
Our Own Ghost City

3.88
16 votes
180
As Cities Burn
Hell or High Water

3.87
703 votes
181
Thrice
Beggars

3.87
4292 votes
182
Eyedea and Abilities
By the Throat

3.87
224 votes
183
Now, Now Every Children
Cars

3.87
31 votes
184
Gustavo Cerati
Fuerza Natural

3.87
19 votes
185
Pygmy Lush
Split with Turboslut

3.87
19 votes
186
The Twilight Sad
Forget The Night Ahead

3.86
288 votes
187
The Horrors
Primary Colours

3.86
318 votes
188
Faunts
Feel.Love.Thinking.Of.

3.86
51 votes
189
Regina Spektor
Far

3.86
1006 votes
190
Planning for Burial
Leaving

3.86
308 votes
191
AJJ
Can't Maintain

3.86
510 votes
192
Glocca Morra
The Working Bones, A Health Decline

3.86
28 votes
193
Brendan Benson
My Old, Familiar Friend

3.86
14 votes
194
Jaaportit
Voimasuo

3.86
14 votes
195
Kiss Kiss
The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left

3.86
80 votes
196
Silversun Pickups
Swoon

3.86
2925 votes
197
Blueneck
The Fallen Host

3.86
45 votes
198
Richard Hawley
Truelove's Gutter

3.85
34 votes
199
Jenny Owen Youngs
Transmitter Failure

3.85
34 votes
200
Florence and the Machine
Lungs

3.85
2276 votes



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