Best Tracks of 2009

I used to make 'Best of' lists for radio show playlists. My radio shows ended when I moved to LA last summer, but I couldn't keep myself from making a list this year. My lists are always in playlist form, and I burn CDs for family/friends who want them (if you want one, let me know). None of these are in any sort of order other than a slight attempt to have the songs flow together as much as they can. I also do not take 2 songs from the same artist/album, even though there might be a song or 2 I like better than others on the list. Fanfarlo's "I'm A Pilot" would have made the list if not for that rule. I did not take any song from February's Dark Was The Night compilation album. That album by itself could almost be a 'Best of' album, so it didn't seem fair to pull from it. If you haven't heard that album by now, you really should check it out. The entire album could possibly have made this list. Yeasayer's "Ambling Alp" was almost on this list, but it was just a single. The album comes out in February 2010. I decided to let it go in against the other 2010 releases instead, although I'm pretty sure you'll see it on my list this time next year.

So with that explanation, again, in no meaningful order:
1. Animal Collective - Lion in a Coma
2. Handsome Furs - Legal Tender
3. Passion Pit - Moth's Wings
4. Islands - No You Don't
5. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home
6. Fanfarlo - The Walls are Coming Down
7. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
8. Local Natives - Airplanes
9. Florence + The Machine - You've Got the Love
10. The xx - Crystalised
11. Andrew Bird - Not A Robot, But A Ghost
12. Sea Wolf - Wicked Blood
13. Bowerbirds - Northern Lights
14. The Antlers - Bear
15. The Dodos - Fables
16. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric
17. Jenny Owen Youngs - What Beats Within
18. Regina Spektor - Eet
19. Imogen Heap - First Train Home
20. Great Northern - 33