A 2009 Review - Giggs edition

Seeing as my topic purged and all, I felt I should document this somewhere rather than keeping all three of my fans hanging. And, you know, so that I can laugh at this in a few years time when I only actually like one of my current top five anymore. I don't think there has been a single year this decade that I heard my favourite album from the year during that calendar year. Well, except maybe 2008, but that was such a musical write-off that it barely even counts.

If anyone wants links to / write-ups for any of this stuff, I'll happily oblige. And it'd be awesome to see everyone else's lists posted on here too!

Anyway:

Top 25 Albums of 2009

1. Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
2. Rome - Flowers from Exile
3. Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland
4. Converge - Axe To Fall
5. The Antlers - Hospice
6. Levon Helm - Electric Dirt
7. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
8. The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite
9. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...Pt. II
10. Natural Snow Buildings - Shadow Kingdom
11. Mos Def - The Ecstatic
12. Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
13. Cunninlynguists - Strange Journey Volumes 1 & 2
14. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
15. Clipse - 'Til The Casket Drops
16. P.O.S. - Never Better
17. Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
18. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
19. Wu-Tang Clan - Chamber Music
20. Drudkh - Microcosmos
21. Bohren & der Club of Gore - Mitleid Lady (EP)
22. Burial & Four Tet - Moth/Wolf Cub
23. The Necks - Silverwater
24. Cobalt - Gin
25. Crippled Black Phoenix - The Resurrectionists

Top 25 Songs of 2009

1. Converge - Cruel Bloom
2. P.O.S. - Let it Rattle
3. Mos Def - Life in Marvelous Times
4. Drudkh - Ars Poetica
5. The Antlers - Kettering
6. Clipse - Freedom
7. Converge - Dark Horse
8. Shpongle - Invisible Man in a Fluorescent Suit
9. Maudlin of the Well - Laboratories of the Invisible World (Rollerskating the Cosmic Palmistric Postborder)
10. Animal Collective - Brothersport
11. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
12. Rome - To Die Among Strangers
13. Sunn O))) - Alice
14. Rome - We Who Fell in Love with the Sea
15. Bohren & der Club of Gore - Mitleid Lady
16. Raekwon, Cormega & Sean Price (Wu-Tang Clan) - Radiant Jewels
17. Sole & the Skyrider Band - Black
18. Levon Helm - When I Go Away
19. Jay Electronica - Exhibit C
20. Joss Stone (feat. Nas) - Governmentalist
21. Lady Gaga - Alejandro
22. Why? - Eskimo Snow
23. Big Boi (feat. Gucci Mane) - Shine Blockas
24. Animal Collective - Bluish
25. Patrick Wolf - Thickets