The Best Songs of 2009
- Animal Collective – What Would I Want? Sky
- Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
- Animal Collective – My Girls (one Avey song, one Panda song, from separate releases — I’m pretending this doesn’t break my one song per artist rule)
- Destroyer – Bay of Pigs (link must be an edit — full track is a wonderful 13 minutes and 39 seconds)
- Phoenix – Lisztomania
- A.C. Newman – All of My Days and All of My Days Off
- St. Vincent – The Party
- Dirty Projectors – Stillness is the Move
- Julian Casablancas – 11th Dimension
- Portishead – Chase the Tear
- Girls – Lust for Life (INSANELY NSFW video)
- Thom Yorke – Hearing Damage
- The Flaming Lips – Watching the Planets (also really NSFW, I swear this is just coincidence)
- Washed Out – Feel It All Around
- Neko Case – This Tornado Loves You
- The xx – Crystalised
- Dinosaur Jr. – Pieces
- Camera Obscura – French Navy
- Wilco – Bull Black Nova
- The Big Pink – Dominos
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