Best Alternative Rock Albums of 2009

Tigers on Trains
Songs By And About Whales

4.47
30 votes

Blue Roses
Blue Roses

4.43
14 votes

Dignan
Cheaters and Thieves

4.4
20 votes

the GazettE
DISTRESS AND COMA -Auditory Impression-

4.37
23 votes

Driftless Pony Club
Expert

4.26
34 votes

Carina Round
Things You Should Know

4.23
22 votes

JEFF the Brotherhood
Heavy Days

4.23
22 votes

Local Natives
Sun Hands

4.23
40 votes

Tigers on Trains
Grandfather

4.21
576 votes

The Antlers
Hospice

4.19
3722 votes

Ling Tosite Sigure
Just a Moment

4.19
418 votes

O'Brother
The Death of Day

4.18
456 votes

El-Creepo!
El-Creepo!

4.18
28 votes

Alexi Murdoch
Towards the Sun

4.18
17 votes

Monster Machismo
Aye Aye Porcupine

4.17
49 votes

The Life and Times
Tragic Boogie

4.17
56 votes

Karnivool
Sound Awake

4.17
1624 votes

Dan Mangan
Nice, Nice, Very Nice

4.16
97 votes

Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
What It Takes to Move Forward

4.16
813 votes

Drowning the Light
The Blood Of The Ancients

4.15
26 votes

Kellermensch
Kellermensch

4.15
23 votes

The Paper Chase
Someday This Could All Be Yours Vol.1

4.14
112 votes

Former Ghosts
Fleurs

4.14
25 votes

Future of Forestry
Travel II

4.14
80 votes

John Frusciante
The Empyrean

4.13
614 votes

Elora Danan
In The Room Up There

4.13
19 votes

Sweet Trip
You Will Never Know Why

4.13
290 votes

Hypomanie
Hypomanie EP

4.13
24 votes

Paul Dempsey
Everything Is True

4.11
170 votes

Ben Howard
These Waters

4.11
23 votes

Charles Spearin
The Happiness Project

4.11
28 votes

Metric
Plug In, Plug Out

4.11
38 votes

Pretend
Bones In The Soil, Rust In The Oil

4.1
99 votes

Tubelord
Our First American Friends

4.09
137 votes

Good Night and Good Morning
Good Night & Good Morning

4.09
18 votes

Eleventh He Reaches London
Hollow Be My Name

4.09
239 votes

Grammatics
Grammatics

4.08
66 votes

toe
For Long Tomorrow

4.08
397 votes

Archives
Decline

4.08
113 votes

Jordaan Mason and The Horse Museum
Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head

4.08
208 votes

John-Allison Weiss
Was Right All Along

4.08
26 votes

Sarah Fimm
Red Yellow Sun

4.07
27 votes

HRVRD
The Inevitable And I

4.07
354 votes

The Cambiata
The Cambiata

4.07
14 votes

Gavin Castleton
Home

4.07
107 votes

Cassino
Kingprince

4.07
36 votes

Jon Gomm
Don't Panic

4.07
30 votes

Brandi Carlile
Give up the Ghost

4.07
15 votes

Future of Forestry
Travel

4.06
64 votes

Mono
Hymn to the Immortal Wind

4.06
1115 votes

Manchester Orchestra
Mean Everything to Nothing

4.05
3266 votes

The Tumbled Sea
melody/summer

4.04
38 votes

The Waters Deep Here
Sunden

4.04
31 votes

Wild Nothing
Summer Holiday 7"

4.04
26 votes

Arctic Monkeys
Cornerstone

4.04
28 votes

Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster
Collapse

4.04
14 votes

Cougar
Patriot

4.04
14 votes

Vienna Teng
Inland Territory

4.03
30 votes

Gazpacho
Tick Tock

4.03
141 votes

Relient K
Forget and Not Slow Down

4.03
382 votes

Animal Collective
Fall Be Kind

4.03
819 votes

Children of Nova
The Complexity of Light

4.03
170 votes

Vic Chesnutt
At The Cut

4.03
39 votes

Sleep Dealer
The Way Home

4.02
42 votes

The Blue Angel Lounge
The Blue Angel Lounge

4.02
44 votes

The Republic of Wolves
His Old Branches

4.02
344 votes

The Brave Little Abacus
Masked Dancers

4.02
174 votes

Archive
Controlling Crowds

4.02
99 votes

Circulatory System
Signal Morning

4.01
98 votes

The Dear Hunter
Act III: Life and Death

4.01
2272 votes

Laura Stevenson
Holy Ghost!

4.01
176 votes

Mass of the Fermenting Dregs
World Is Yours

4.01
264 votes

Sights and Sounds
Monolith

4
424 votes

Gregory Alan Isakov
This Empty Northern Hemisphere

4
118 votes

Mew
No More Stories

4
1330 votes

Minus the Bear
Into the Mirror

4
216 votes

From Indian Lakes
The Man With Wooden Legs

4
157 votes

Karnivool
Set Fire to the Hive

4
30 votes

Hey Rosetta!
Red Songs

4
21 votes

Dorena
Holofon

4
20 votes

Land Of Talk
Fun And Laughter

4
20 votes

This Armistice
(New Breath+New Heartbeat)=Change

4
19 votes

The Love Language
The Love Language

4
18 votes

Horseback
The Invisible Mountain

3.99
82 votes

Paper Route
Absence

3.99
132 votes

Giant Squid
The Ichthyologist

3.99
273 votes

Various Artists (Indie)
Dark Was The Night

3.99
312 votes

Parabelle
A Summit Borderline/A Drop Oceanic

3.98
94 votes

All the Day Holiday
The Things We've Grown To Love

3.98
26 votes

And So I Watch You From Afar
And So I Watch You From Afar

3.98
599 votes

Cast Spells
Bright Works and Baton

3.98
21 votes

Kauan
Aava Tuulen Maa

3.98
80 votes

Solstafir
Köld

3.97
198 votes

The Menzingers
Hold on, Dodge

3.97
131 votes

Il Teatro degli Orrori
A sangue freddo

3.97
16 votes

The Dangerous Summer
Reach for the Sun

3.97
324 votes

The Joy Formidable
A Balloon Called Moaning

3.97
135 votes

Braveyoung
Bloom

3.97
15 votes

I Create
Complete Medley

3.96
28 votes

Rhian Sheehan
Standing in Silence

3.96
14 votes

Crippled Black Phoenix
The Resurrectionists / Night Raider

3.96
69 votes

Wild Beasts
Two Dancers

3.96
412 votes

Do Make Say Think
Other Truths

3.96
598 votes

Manic Street Preachers
Journal For Plague Lovers

3.96
272 votes

the GazettE
DIM

3.96
105 votes

A Love Like Pi
The Atlas And The Oyster

3.96
13 votes

Letting Up Despite Great Faults
Letting Up Despite Great Faults

3.96
72 votes

Blindead
Impulse

3.96
24 votes

Sleeping at Last
Storyboards

3.96
138 votes

Needtobreathe
The Outsiders

3.96
69 votes

Emery
...In Shallow Seas We Sail

3.96
1279 votes

The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Smoking Acid

3.95
22 votes

David Bazan
Curse Your Branches

3.95
87 votes

Sunset Rubdown
Dragonslayer

3.95
244 votes

St. Vincent
Actor

3.95
620 votes

Ship Thieves
Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves

3.95
20 votes

Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion

3.95
3000 votes

Rachel Grimes
Book Of Leaves

3.94
81 votes

Arstidir
Arstidir

3.94
18 votes

Junius
The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist

3.94
266 votes

Bill Callahan
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

3.94
164 votes

Consider the Thief
Signs and Wonders

3.94
112 votes

Prawn
False Institutions

3.94
116 votes

Mouse On The Keys
An Anxious Object

3.94
176 votes

Nux Vomica
Asleep in the Ashes

3.94
16 votes

Maybeshewill
Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony

3.94
470 votes

Airbag
Identity

3.93
30 votes

The Swell Season
Strict Joy

3.93
82 votes

Long Distance Calling
Avoid The Light

3.93
171 votes

Love of Lesbian
1999

3.93
14 votes

Jaaportit
Voimasuo

3.93
14 votes

tsosis
Blue Version

3.93
111 votes

David Crowder Band
Church Music

3.93
34 votes

Sholi
Sholi

3.92
86 votes

Fugue
Ancient Glass

3.92
13 votes

CSTVT
Summer Fences

3.92
376 votes

Closure in Moscow
First Temple

3.92
908 votes

Noah Gundersen
Saints & Liars

3.92
38 votes

fun.
Aim and Ignite

3.92
1022 votes

Irepress
Sol Eye Sea I

3.92
242 votes

sleepmakeswaves/Tangled Thoughts of Leaving
Split

3.92
18 votes

The Builders and the Butchers
Salvation is a Deep Dark Well

3.92
18 votes

Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest

3.92
2550 votes

The Growlers
Are You In or Out?

3.91
17 votes

Jolly
Forty-six Minutes, Twelve Seconds of Music

3.91
17 votes

Soutaisei Riron
Hi-Fi Anatomia

3.91
78 votes

Destroyer
Bay of Pigs

3.91
93 votes

Shinobu
Strange Spring Air

3.9
21 votes

Dinosaur Jr.
Farm

3.9
1348 votes

Sunlight Ascending
All the Memories, All at Once

3.9
41 votes

The Jezabels
She's So Hard

3.9
165 votes

Sucioperro
Pain Agency

3.9
25 votes

Graham Coxon
The Spinning Top

3.9
20 votes

Therapy?
Crooked Timber

3.9
89 votes

A Fine Frenzy
Bomb In A Birdcage

3.9
64 votes

Matthew Good
Vancouver

3.9
204 votes

Akira Kosemura
Polaroid Piano

3.9
34 votes

Tribal Seeds
The Harvest

3.89
19 votes

Arctic Monkeys
Crying Lightning

3.89
28 votes

Arizmenda
Within the Vacuum of Infinity...

3.89
111 votes

Nana Grizol
Love It Love It

3.89
63 votes

Lucero
1372 Overton Park

3.89
27 votes

Balmorhea
All Is Wild, All Is Silent

3.89
85 votes

Now, Now Every Children
Cars

3.89
31 votes

Transit
Stay Home

3.89
106 votes

Portugal. The Man
The Satanic Satanist

3.88
1466 votes

Coheed and Cambria
Neverender 12%

3.88
52 votes

The Black Atlantic
Reverence for Fallen Trees

3.88
13 votes

Russian Circles
Geneva

3.88
747 votes

Mount Eerie
Wind's Poem

3.88
698 votes

Brand New
Daisy

3.88
7682 votes

Rooftops
A Forest Of Polarity

3.88
54 votes

Phoenix (FRA)
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

3.88
1249 votes

Brother/Ghost
Black Ice

3.88
33 votes

Best Coast
Sun Was High (So Was I)

3.88
24 votes

Helen Earth Band
Our Own Ghost City

3.88
16 votes

As Cities Burn
Hell or High Water

3.87
701 votes

Deas Vail
Birds & Cages

3.87
182 votes

Thrice
Beggars

3.87
4266 votes

Eyedea and Abilities
By the Throat

3.87
223 votes

The Boxer Rebellion
Union

3.86
144 votes

The Horrors
Primary Colours

3.86
312 votes

Richard Hawley
Truelove's Gutter

3.86
33 votes

Gustavo Cerati
Fuerza Natural

3.86
18 votes

Regina Spektor
Far

3.86
1004 votes

The Twilight Sad
Forget The Night Ahead

3.86
288 votes

In Case of Fire
Align the Planets

3.86
25 votes

Cheap Girls
My Roaring 20s

3.86
64 votes

AJJ
Can't Maintain

3.86
509 votes

Planning for Burial
Leaving

3.86
302 votes

Glocca Morra
The Working Bones, A Health Decline

3.86
28 votes

Brendan Benson
My Old, Familiar Friend

3.86
14 votes

Kiss Kiss
The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left

3.86
80 votes

Silversun Pickups
Swoon

3.85
2877 votes

Faunts
Feel.Love.Thinking.Of.

3.85
51 votes

Jenny Owen Youngs
Transmitter Failure

3.85
34 votes

Blueneck
The Fallen Host

3.85
44 votes

All the Empires of the World
Blessings

3.85
43 votes

Young the Giant
Shake My Hand

3.85
69 votes

Mount Eerie
Black Wooden

3.85
26 votes

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