1. Destroyer – Kaputt

2. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake

3. Fallujah – The Harvest Wombs

4. Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver

5. Tom Waits – Bad As Me

6. Autopsy – Macabre Eternal

7. Grouper – A I A

8. Arch/Matheos – Sympathetic Resonance

9. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo

10. Mastodon – The Hunter

11. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost

12. A Winged Victory for the Sullen – A Winged Victory for the Sullen

13. Esoteric – Paragon of Dissonance

14. Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972

15. Moonsorrow – Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa

16. Josh T Pearson – Last of the Country Gentlemen

17. Opeth – Heritage

18. The Psychic Paramount – II

19. Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part Two

20. Wormrot – Dirge

21. Danny Brown – XXX

22. Kate Bush – 50 Words for Snow

23. The Antlers – Burst Apart

24. Paul Wardingham – Assimilate Regenerate

25. Washed Out – Within and Without

1. Destroyer – Kaputt

2. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake

3. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost

4. Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver

5. Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972

6. Atlas Sound – Parallax

7. Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica

8. Julianna Barwick – The Magic Place

9. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues

10. Panda Bear – Tomboy

11. Cass McCombs – Wit’s End

12. Clams Casino – Instrumentals

13. Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise

14. Burial – Street Halo

15. The Field – Looping State of Mind

16. ASAP Rocky – LiveLoveA$AP

17. James Blake – James Blake

18. Washed Out – Within and Without

19. Elite Gymnastics – RUIN

20. araabMUZIK – Electronic Dream

21. Real Estate – Days

22. The Weeknd – House of Balloons

23. John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

24. Sepalcure – Sepalcure

25. tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l

26. Yuck – Yuck

27. Radiohead – King Of Limbs

28. Kate Bush – 50 Words for Snow

29. Secret Cities – Strange Hearts

30. Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact

1. Robert Johnson – King of the Delta Blues Singers

2. Bill Evans – Sunday at the Village Vanguard
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3. Bill Evans – Waltz for Debby

4. Oliver Nelson – The Blues and the Abstract Truth

5. John Coltrane – Olé Coltrane

6. Max Roach – We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite

7. Patsy Cline – Showcase

8. Ornette Coleman – Free Jazz

9. Stan Getz – Focus

10. Bobby Bland – Two Steps From the Blues

11. John Coltrane – Africa/Brass

12. João Gilberto – João Gilberto

13. Eric Dolphy – At the Five Spot

14. Nina Simone – Nina Simone at Newport

15. George Russell – Ezz-thetics

16. Grant Green – Grantstand

17. Hank Mobley – Roll Call

18. Cecil Taylor – The World of Cecil Taylor

19. Lee Konitz – Motion

20. Charles Mingus – Presents Charles Mingus

21. Milt Jackson & John Coltrane – Bags & Trane

22. Ella Fitzgerald – Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!

23. Miles Davis – Steamin’ With the Miles Davis Quintet

24. Ray Charles – The Genius Sings the Blues

25. Freddie Hubbard – Ready for Freddie

1. Charles Mingus – Blues & Roots

2. Eric Dolphy – Out There

3. John Coltrane – Giant Steps

4. Muddy Waters – Muddy Waters at Newport 1960

5. Bill Evans – Portrait in Jazz

6. Karlheinz Stockhausen – Kontakte

7. Thelonious Monk – Thelonious Alone in San Francisco

8. Lonnie Johnson & Elmer Snowden – Blues & Ballads

9. Tina Brooks – True Blue

10. Bobby Timmons – This Here is Bobby Timmons

11. Ornette Coleman – Change of the Century

12. Hank Mobley – Soul Station

13. Ella Fitzgerald – Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife

14. Yusef Lateef – The Centaur and the Phoenix

15. Art Blakey – The Big Beat

16. Miles Davis – Sketches of Spain

17. Duke Ellington – Blues in Orbit

18. Ella Fitzgerald – Let No Man Write My Epitaph

19. Etta James – At Last!

20. Wes Montgomery – The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery

21. Joan Baez – Joan Baez

22. Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger

23. Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lightnin’ and the Blues

24. Duke Jordan – Flight to Jordan

25. Stanley Turrentine – Look Out!

1. Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me

2. Beach House – Teen Dream

3. Twin Shadow – Forget

4. The National – High Violet

5. Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma

6. Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz / All Delighted People EP

7. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest

8. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening

9. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today

10. Girls – Broken Dreams Club

11. How To Dress Well – Love Remains

12. Matthew Dear – Black City

13. The Walkmen – Lisbon

14. No Age – Everything in Between

15. Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (II)

16. Caribou – Swim

17. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs

18. The Morning Benders – Big Echo

19. Pantha du Prince – Black Noise

20. Four Tet – There Is Love in You

21. Spoon – Transference

22. Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid

23. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah, Part 2

24. Magic Man – Real Live Color

25. Liars – Sisterworld

1. Kvelertak – Kvelertak

2. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today

3. Carbon Based Lifeforms – Interloper

4. Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me

5. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

6. Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma

7. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs

8. The Black Crowes – Croweology

9. Alcest – Écailles de lune

10. The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt

11. Scissor Sisters – Night Work

12. Misery Index – Heirs to Thievery

13. Blind Guardian – At the Edge of Time

14. Grinderman – Grinderman 2

15. Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz

16. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest

17. The National – High Violet

18. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh

19. Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here

20. Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can

21. Agalloch – Marrow of the Spirit

22. Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid

23. Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky

24. Oceansize – Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up

25. Enslaved – Axioma Ethica Odini

I am the eagle. Maggie is the robot. Just like in real life.

Clicky to enbiggen:

1. Mastodon – Crack the Skye

2. Amorphis – Skyforger

3. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport

4. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion

5. Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt II

6. Natural Snow Buildings – Shadow Kingdom

7. Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

8. Bat For Lashes – Two Suns

9. Group Bombino – Guitars From Agadez

10. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

11. Megadeth – Endgame

12. The Antlers – Hospice

13. Antony & The Johnsons – The Crying Light

14. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest

15. Kylesa – Static Tensions

16. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic

17. Gui Boratto – Take My Breath Away

18. David Sylvian – Manafon

19. Atlas Sound – Logos

20. The Black Crowes – Before the Frost…

21. Mos Def – The Ecstatic

22. Cobalt – Gin

23. Dinosaur Jr. – Farm

24. Ancestors – Of Sound Mind

25. Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM

15. jj – jj n° 2
14. Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
13. Atlas Sound – Logos
12. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
11. Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
10. Chromatic Flights – Sunset Bell
9. Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
8. Girls – Album
7. The Antlers – Hospice
6. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
5. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
4. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
3. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
2. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion

During a WordPress update preceding the posting of some Top Ten of ’09 lists, all the images on the site got erased. I seem to have no viable image backup. Since I have no desire to hunt down, reformat and re-upload 300+ images, I guess my New Year’s resolution is to start fourteen seconds over from scratch…