Favorite albums of 2009

For the, um, record...

• "Fantasies," Metric
• "Actor," St. Vincent
• "Merriwether Post Pavilion," Animal Collective
• "Revolution," Miranda Lambert
• "Manners," Passion Pit
• "It's Blitz!," Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• "It's Not Me, It's You," Lily Allen
• "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix," Phoenix
• "Tonight: Franz Ferdinand," Franz Ferdinand
• "The Blueprint 3," Jay-Z