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Top 50 albums of 2009 50-31

And now that the end of decade stuff is taken care of, time for end of year.

50. Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Beware
49. Sufjan Stevens - Run Rabbit Run: String-quartet re-recording of Sufjan’s underrated avant electronic album, Enjoy Your Rabbit.
48. Malcolm Middleton - Waxing Gibbous: Half of The Arab Strap makes more of his mope-pop, this time with much more pop.  RIYL: Frightened Rabbit
47. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
46. Frankmusik - Complete Me: Sadly, high-budget studio gloss took Frankmusik’s basement glitch-pop from great to merely good.  Still, though.  It’s good.
45. Condo Fucks - Fuckbook: Yo La Tengo side-project of lo-fi garage rock covers.
44. Matt and Kim - Grand
43. VV Brown - Travelling Like the Light
42. Various Artists - Dark Was the Night
41. Major Lazer - Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do
40. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
39. Beirut - March of the Zapotec/Holland
38. Giuseppe Ielasi - Aix: Strange, hypnotic, looping clicks and pops.  Often sounds like a house settling.  Sometimes quasi-melodies emerge sometimes they don’t.  Probably the weirdest album on my list.  RIYL: Matmos
37. Michachu - Jewellery
36. Why? - Eskimo Snow
35. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
34. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!
33. The Wave Pictures - If You Leave It Alone: Mix of twee, folk, and soul.  RIYL: Field Mice, early Belle & Sebastian, Television Personalities
32. Rihanna - Rated R
31. The xx - xx