top 100 albums of 2009

10. A Mouth Full Of Dust by Bradley Hathaway (standout track: "Look Up")

9. Dance Or Die With A Vengeance by Family Force 5 - (standout track: "Ghostride The Whip")

8. First Temple by Closure In Moscow (standout track: "Ghost Of Twilight")

7. Stages by Vedera (standout track: "Forgive You")

6. ...In Shallow Seas We Sail by Emery (standout track: "Butcher's Mouth")

5. Armistice by Mute Math (standout track: "Armistice")

4. In Search Of Solid Ground by Saosin (standout track: "On My Own")

3. You Can't Take It With You by As Tall As Lions (standout track: "In Case Of Rapture")

2. On A Carousel of Sound, We Go Round by the Snake, the Cross, the Crown (standout track: "Behold The River")

1. The Way I See It - by Raphael Saadiq (i realize that this album was released in 2008, but i discovered it in 2009, and it blew my mind. within a week, every song was the most played on my itunes!)