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Animal Collective Top Spin's Best Albums Of 2009 List

10:38 a.m. · December 9, 2009 · by Andrew Winistorfer

In an unsurprising development, Spin has named Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion as its best album of 2009. As always, indie-rockers fair well on Spin's list, claiming the top six spots before anyone not on Warp or Matador picks up an inclusion (Mos Def's The Ecstatic).

Overall, Spin's list reads like a Blender list, whichis fitting I suppose, since Blender doesn't even exist any more. There's the inclusion of pop-rap that critics can't ignore (Drake), emo (Paramore), butt rock (Wolfmother), a rap album that shouldn't be included (Rick Ross' Deeper Than Rap) and an album no one, even the makers of said album, could possibly really like (Kiss' Sonic Boom). Here's the full list:

40 KISS - Sonic Boom
39 Wilco - Wilco (Wilco The Album
38 Rick Ross - Deeper Than Rap
37 Gallows - Grey Britain
36 Brakesbrakesbrakes - Touchdown
35 Miike Snow - Miike Snow
34 Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx
33 The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
32 U2 - No Line On The Horizon
31 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
30 Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young
29 Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
28 The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
27 Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
26 The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come
25 The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love
24 Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
23 St. Vincent - Actor
22 Tegan And Sara - Sainthood
21 Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II
20 Paramore - Brand New Eyes
19 Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
18 Antony And The Johnsons - The Crying Light
17 Mastodon - Crack The Skye
16 Japandroids - Post-Nothing
15 Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
14 Amadou & Mariam - Welcome To Mali
13 Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
12 Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart
11 Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Summer Of Fear
10 The Dead Weather - Horehound
09 Drake - So Far Gone
08 Florence And The Machine - Lungs
07 Mos Def - The Ecstatic
06 Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
05 Girls - Album
04 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
03 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
02 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
01 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion