In no particular order, here comes a bunch of albums that were all considered for and nearly made it onto my top 20 albums of 2009 list. Sorry I couldn’t be bothered to upload artwork to any of them or post mp3s. But Hypem isn’t really tracking TLB anymore and the first page of my blog is turning extremely long because of all the 2009 dabblery. Sometimes text is more than enough, you should check these out too. There’s a link to a Spotify playlist at the bottom, so start there once you’ve read through the list.

The Fauns - The Fauns

CFCF - Continent

Bat For Lashes - Two Suns

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Girls - Album

Fever Ray - Fever Ray

Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms

jj - n° 2

Real Estate - Real Estate

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!

The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love

A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Ashes Grammar

Atlas Sound - Logos

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Wild Beasts - Two Dancers

Antony And The Johnsons - The Crying Light

Wavves - Wavvves

Avner - Lyssna

Metric - Fantasies

Princeton - Cocoon Of Love

Basement Jaxx - Scars

Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti Is… Skyscraper

A Camp - Colonia

The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules

Here’s a Spotify playlist for it:

http://open.spotify.com/user/thelemurblog/playlist/6CYTTgBGansOgO3K8A9FMb