Matt Mac Haffie’s Top 10 Albums of 2009

10 Aimee Bobruk – “The Safety Match Journals” (did you miss this Austin, TX songbird live at the Beat Shop in Troy?)
09 La Roux – “La Roux” (revisionist 80s synth pop done right, oh and yes good hair)
08 Ashley Pond Band – “The Warning” (Ashley incorporates the full band to great effect)
07 John Brodeur – “Get Through” (would have preferred a Maggie Mayday full band release)
06 HuDost – “Trapeze” (Western Mass. space rockers led by Moksha Sommer)
05 The Decemberists – “The Hazards of Love” (Newport darlings)
04 The Church – “Untitled #23” (as good as ever and that is very good indeed)
03 Phoenix – “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix” (I’m not immune to this kind of stuff, Phoenix always good)
02 Wilco – “Wilco (The Album)” (not on a lot of lists, and I don’t know why)
01 Green Day – “21st Century Breakdown” (as close as the current generation is ever going to get to “London Calling”)

Footnote: 2009 was a very good year for cover art.

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