The CLUAS Writers top albums of 2009
have now been published:
1. The Antlers 'Hospice'
2. Grizzly Bear 'Veckatimest'
3. Fever Ray 'Fever Ray'
4. Animal Collective 'Merriweather Post Pavillion'
5. Prefab Sprout 'Let's Change The World With Music'
6. St. Vincent 'Actor'
7. Soulsavers 'Broken'
8. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 'The Pains of Being Pure At Heart'
9. Manic Street Preachers 'Journal For Plague Lovers'
10. Various Artists 'Dark Was The Night'
11. Yo La Tengo 'Popular Songs'
12. Jonsi and Alex 'Riceboy Sleeps'
13. White Denim 'Fits'
14. Morrissey 'Years of Refusal'
15. Moderat 'Moderat'
16. Handsome Furs 'Face Control'
17. Dark Room Notes 'We Love you Dark Matter'
18. Camera Obscura 'My Maudlin Career'
19. Richard Hawley 'Truelove's Gutter'
20. Yeah Yeah Yeahs 'It's Blitz'
21. The XX 'The XX'
22. Ian Brown 'My Way'
23. Lily Allen 'It's Not Me, It's You'
24. The Duckworth Lewis Method 'The Duckworth Lewis Method'
25. Adrian Crowley 'Season of the Sparks'
26. Mos Def 'The Ecstatic'
27. Florence & the Machine 'Lungs'
28. Bill Callahan 'Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle'
29. Lisa Hannigan 'See sew'
(as it was released in 2008)
29. White Lies 'To Lose My Life'
30. Girls 'Album'
31. Kasabian 'West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum'
32. Wilco 'Wilco'
33. Doves 'Kingdom of Rust'
34. The Editors 'In This Light and On The Evening'
35. U2 'No Line on the Horizon'
36. Biffy Clyro 'Only Revolutions'
37. Passion Pit 'Manners'
38. Valerie Francis 'Slow Dynamo'
39. La Roux 'La Roux'
40. Mark Eitzel 'Klamath'
(updated 20 December after Jan pointed out below that Lisa Hannigan's See Saw was released in September 2008)