Schmackie's Top Indie-Rock Picks of 2009

ArtistTitleAlbum

The Thermals
Now We Can See
Now We Can See

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Doing All the Things that Wouldn't Make Our Parents Proud
s/t

Vic Chesnutt
Phillip Guston
At the Cut

Arctic Monkeys
Cornerstone
Humbug

Girls
Lust for Life
Album

Phoenix
Lisztomania
Wolgang Amadeus Phoenix

Bat for Lashes
Daniel
Two Suns

Animal Collective
My Girls
Post Merriweather Pavillion

Art Brut
DC Comics and Chocolage Milkshakes
Art Brut vs. Satan

Neon Indian
Deadbeat Summer
Psychic Chasm

Neko Case
This Tornado Loves You
Middle Cyclone

Bon Iver
Blood Bank
For Emma Forever Ago

Atlas Sound
Walkabout
Logos

Grizzly Bear
Two Weeks
Veckatimest

Yo La Tengo
Periodically Double or Triple
Popular Songs

St. Vincent
Actor out of Work
Actor

Golden Boots
Country Bat High II
The Winter of Our Discoteque

Matt and Kim
Daylight
Grand

No Age
You're a Target
Nouns

Peter Bjorn and John
Lay It Down
Living Thing

Dirty Projectors
Stillness Is the Move
Bitte Orca

The Dodos
Fables
Time to Die

The Raveonettes
Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed)
In and Out of Control

Wilco
Wilco (the song)
Wilco (the album)

Jay Reatard
Wounded
Watch Me Fall

Tegan and Sara
Arrow
Sainthood

Jarvis Cocker
I never Said I Was Deep
Further Complications

The Decemberists
The Hazards of Love 1
The Hazards of Love

Elvis Perkins
Al the Nights without Love
Elvis Perkins in Dearland

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