afterstasis presents the 250 top LP's of 2009.

[afterstasis]

TOP 250 LP'S OF 2009

1. cold cave - love comes close (darkwave/synth pop)
2. panopticon - collapse (black metal)
3. the mountain goats - the life of the world to come (indie folk)
4. amesoeurs - self titled (post-punk)
5. sawhorse - cover it with asphalt (post-rock)
6. pensees nocturnes - vacuum (black metal)
7. andrew wk - 55 cadillac (classical)
8. former ghosts - fleurs (post-punk)
9. sore eros - second chants (psych)
10. dinosaur jr - farm (alt rock)
11. austere - to lay like old ashes (black metal)
12. sunn 0))) - monoliths and dimensions (drone metal)
13. neon indian - psychic chasms (synth/psych-pop)
14. the pains of being pure at heart - self titled (indie pop)
15. hunx and his punx - gay singles (pop punk)
16. lightning bolt - earthly delights (noise rock)
17. richard youngs - beyond the valley of ultrahits (experimental pop)
18. vic chesnutt - at the cut (dark folk/slowcore)
19. circle of ouroborus - tree of knowledge (black metal)
20. factums - flowers (post-punk/art rock)
21. liturgy - renihilation (black metal)
22. pyramids with nadja - self titled (shoegaze/drone)
23. jeremy jay - slow dance (indie pop)
24. skagos - ast (black metal)
25. to kill a petty bourgeoisie - marlone (dream pop)
26. greymachine - disconnected (industrial/post-metal)
27. silver pines - forces (dream pop)
28. peste noire - ballade c*ntre lo anemi francor (black metal)
29. tyondai braxton - central market (avant-classical)
30. silversun pickups - swoon (alt rock)
31. ovens - self titled (power pop)
32. wolves in the throne room - black cascade (black metal)
33. crocodiles - summer of hate (shoegaze/post-punk)
34. balmorhea - all is wild, all is silent (post-rock)
35. witch hunt - burning bridges to nowhere (crust punk)
36. portal - swarth (death metal)
37. john vanderslice - romanian names (indie pop)
38. irepress - sol eye sea i (post-metal)
39. ganglians - monster head room (psych)
40. dreams of the drowned - thanatotropic principle (black metal)
41. arroyo - individuum & massen (post-rock)
42. blut aus nord - memoria vetusta II (black metal)
43. oriin - all things are numbers (post-rock)
44. planning for burial - leaving (shoegaze/post-metal)
45. the black heart procession - six (indie rock)
46. horrific - your worst nightmare (death metal)
47. jeffrey lewis & the junkyard - em are i (folk)
48. sui caedere - threne (black metal)
49. pianos become the teeth - old pride (screamo)
50. do make say think - the other truths (post-rock)
51. aspen woods - new world disorder (shoegaze)
52. narrows - new distances (post-hardcore)
53. kreng - l'autopsie phenomenale de dieu (dark ambient)
54. solstafir - kold (progressive/black metal)
55. reflections of internal rain - last flood (crust punk/screamo)
56. Æthenor - faking gold and murder (drone)
57. mi ami - watersports (noise rock/post-punk)
58. the ruins of beverast - foulest semen of a sheltered elite (black metal)
59. danny norbury - light in august (classical)
60. miserere luminis - self titled (black metal)
61. the field - yesterday and today (minimal techno)
62. csejthe - la mort du prince noir (black metal)
63. why? - eskimo snow (indie pop)
64. astra - the weirding (prog rock)
65. simon joyner - out into the snow (folk)
66. desire - II (disco)
67. black math horseman - wyllt (doom metal/psych rock)
68. arctic plateau - on a sad sunny day (shoegaze/post-rock)
69. zola jesus - the spoils (ambient/goth)
70. fragment. - self titled (post-metal)
71. six organs of admittance - luminous night (psych folk)
72. celeste - misanthrope(s) (screamo)
73. prurient - rose pillar (noise/dark ambient)
74. brown jenkins - death obsession (black metal)
75. girls - album (indie rock)
76. pocahaunted - passage (psych)
77. kylesa - static tensions (sludge)
78. gentle friendly - ride slow (noise-pop)
79. toma - as we fall into static our hearts sing (shoegaze/post-rock)
80. eat skull - wild and inside (noise-pop)
81. big business - mind the drift (sludge)
82. tiny vipers - life on earth (dark folk)
83. cobalt - gin (black metal)
84. king kong ding dong - youth culture index (psych/noise-pop)
85. oranssi pazuzu - muukalainen puhuu (black metal/space rock)
86. gary war - horribles parade (psych)
87. megasus - self titled (sludge)
88. boy in static - candy cigarette (synth pop)
89. a second of june - the inside laws (shoegaze/post-punk)
90. major lazer - guns don't kill people, lazers do (dancehall)
91. ye olde maids - god blesses us, mother dresses us (post-punk)
92. cloaks - versus grain (dubstep)
93. towers - full circle (post-hardcore)
94. locrian - drenched lands (black metal)
95. mountainhood - goldeness being part 1 in the multi-visorial dream saga called the light (psych folk)
96. funebrarum - the sleep of morbid dreams (death metal)
97. l'acephale - stahlhartes gehause (black metal)
98. blueneck - the fallen host (post-rock)
99. current 93 - aleph at hallucinatory mountain (neofolk/psych rock)
100. fall of efrafa - inle (post-metal/crust)
101. nadja - when i see the sun it always shines on tv (drone metal)
102. jj - n°2 (pop)
103. sleep whale - houseboat (post-rock)
104. jason crumer - walk with me (industrial/noise)
105. yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz! (synth pop/post-punk)
106. these are powers - all aboard future (noise rock)
107. camera obscura - my maudlin career (indie pop)
108. mount eerie - wind's poem (indie folk/black metal)
109. wolf eyes - always wrong (noise/industrial)
110. magrugergrind - self titled (grindcore)
111. crime in choir - gift givers (prog/post-rock)
112. tombs - winter hours (post-metal)
113. lou barlow - goodnight unknown (indie folk)
114. alpinist - minus mensch (crust punk)
115. jackie-o motherf*cker - ballads of the revolution (psych)
116. blank dogs - under and under (post-punk)
117. death - ...for the whole world to see (proto-punk)
118. the devil's blood - the time of no time evermore (psych/hard rock)
119. gnaw - this face (noise)
120. telepathe - dance mother (electro pop)
121. nomo - invisible cities (funk)
122. the chasm - farseeing the paranormal abysm (death metal)
123. nudge - as good as gone (ambient/electronic pop)
124. the skygreen leopards - gorgeous johnny (folk-pop)
125. last days - the safety of the north (ambient/post-rock)
126. caspian - tertia (post-rock)
127. njiqahdda - yrg alms (black metal/psych)
128. master musicians of bukkake - totem one (experimental rock/psych)
129. the hidden cameras - origin: orphan (indie pop)
130. the third memory - self titled (screamo)
131. a shoreline dream - recollections of memory (shoegaze/post-rock)
132. iskra - bureval (crust punk/black metal)
133. the great disappointment - self titled (emo)
134. dam-funk - toeachizown (funk)
135. isaïah - ils consomment, prient et tuent mais ne pensent pas (screamo)
136. junius - the martrydom of a catastrophist (post-rock)
137. the entrance band - self titled (psych rock)
138. joan of arc - flowers (indie/post-rock)
139. altar of plagues - white tomb (black metal)
140. gui boratto - take my breath away (minimal techno)
141. thee oh sees - help (garage rock)
142. shogun kunitoki - vinonaamakasio (electro/krautrock)
143. fen - the malediction fields (black metal)
144. illuminations - see-saw (alt-country/psych rock)
145. daniel land and the modern painters - love songs for the chemical generation (shoegaze)
146. sonic youth - the eternal (alt rock)
147. the vandelles - del black aloha (garage/noise rock)
148. animal collective - merriweather post pavilion (psychedelic pop)
149. the twilight sad - forget the night ahead (indie rock/shoegaze)
150. from monument to masses - on little known frequencies (post-rock)
151. torngat - la petite nicole (jazz/post-rock)
152. krallice - dimensional bleedthrough (black metal)
153. chain and the gang - down with liberty... up with chains! (garage rock/soul)
154. tim hecker - an imaginary country (electronic ambient)
155. cave - psychic summer (psych rock)
156. katharsis - fourth reich (black metal)
157. magma - emehntehtt-re (zeuhl)
158. the dead sea - self titled (post-rock)
159. neko case - middle cyclone (alt-country/indie pop)
160. the assemble head in sunburst sound - when sweet sleep returned (psych rock)
161. flaming lips - embryonic (alt/psych rock)
162. empire! empire! (i was a lonely estate) - what it takes to move forward (indie-emo)
163. malcolm middleton - waxing gibbous (indie rock)
164. constants - the foundation, the machine, the ascension (prog-metal)
165. beak> - self titled (krautrock)
166. a sunny day in glasgow - ashes grammar (shoegaze)
167. if these trees could talk - above the earth, below the sky (post-rock)
168. teitanblood - seven chalices (black/death metal)
169. clues - self titled (indie rock)
170. funeral mist - maranatha (black metal)
171. epitimia - to the non-existing shades (black metal)
172. pedestrian deposit - austere (noise)
173. horace andy & alpha - two phazed people (dub)
174. the kilimanjaro darkjazz ensemble - here be dragons (jazz/dark ambient)
175. valleys - sometimes water kills people (indie/psych folk)
176. caethua - the long afternoon of earth (psych folk)
177. the thing - bag it! (free jazz)
178. wolf - ravenous (heavy metal)
179. the fresh & onlys - bomb wombs (psych pop)
180. miike snow - self titled (electronic pop)
181. gathiens - nesh (post-rock)
182. ilyas ahmed - goner (psych folk)
183. tonstartssbandht - an when (noise-pop)
184. velvet cacoon - p aa opal poere pr. 33 (black metal)
185. wavves - wavvves (noise-pop)
186. asobi seksu - hush (dream pop)
187. i shalt become - the pendle witch trials (black metal)
188. drowning the light - a pact with madness (black metal)
189. built to spill - there is no enemy (indie rock)
190. summer cats - songs for tuesdays (indie pop)
191. wand - hard knox (country/folk)
192. yob - the great cessation (doom metal)
193. bad lieutenant - never cry another tear (electronic pop)
194. skeletonwitch - breathing the fire (thrash metal)
195. natural snow buildings - shadow kingdom (drone/psych folk)
196. clark - totems flare (IDM)
197. afterlives - a ticking clock i couldn't stop (shoegaze/ambient)
198. revolting - dreadful pleasures (death metal)
199. yo la tengo - popular songs (indie rock)
200. drudkh - microcosmos (black metal)
201. polvo - in prisms (indie/math rock)
202. mouse on the keys - an anxious object (jazz)
203. grave miasma - exalted emanation (death metal)
204. emeralds - what happened (ambient electronic/drone)
205. ducktails - landscapes (psych pop)
206. kidcrash - snacks (screamo)
207. clubroot - self titled (dubstep)
208. john luther adams - the place we began (classical)
209. infernal stronghold - godless noise (black metal)
210. oblisk - weather patterns (shoegaze)
211. cheer-accident - fear draws misfortune (avant-prog)
212. alexander turnquist - as the twilight crane dreams in color (instrumental folk)
213. casiotone for the painfully alone - vs. children (electronic pop)
214. zelienople - give it up (ambient/psych-folk)
215. easy star all-stars - easy star's lonely hearts dub band (reggae/dub)
216. rameses III - i could not love you more (ambient/drone)
217. astral luminous - lunaric tide (black metal)
218. james blackshaw - the glass bead game (instrumental folk)
219. the king khan & bbq show - invisible girl (garage rock)
220. a place to bury strangers - exploding head (post-punk/noise-rock)
221. vee dee - public mental health system (punk/psych-rock)
222. led bib - sensible shoes (free jazz)
223. dirty projectors - bitte orca (indie/art rock)
224. elegi - varde (dark ambient/classical)
225. holy sons - criminal's return (psychedelic rock)
226. zu - carboniferous (avant-rock)
227. skullflower - malediction (noise/drone)
228. pajo - scream with me (folk)
229. beherit - engram (black metal)
230. petracovich - crepusculo (indie pop)
231. teeth of the sea - orphaned by the ocean (post-rock/psychedelic rock)
232. sun araw - heavy deeds (psych)
233. nokturnal mortum - the voice of steel (black/folk metal)
234. wrnlrd - myrmidon (black noise)
235. marissa nadler - little hells (folk)
236. canis dirus - a somber wind from a distant shore (black metal)
237. maribel - aesthetics (shoegaze)
238. diamatregon - crossroad (black metal)
239. a storm of light - forgive us our trespasses (post-metal)
240. clutchy hopkins - music is my medicine (instrumental hip-hop)
241. atlas sound - logos (psych/dream pop)
242. micachu - jewellery (indie/electro pop)
243. cheval sombre - self titled (indie/psych)
244. moss - tombs of the blind drugged (doom metal)
245. digital leather - warm brother (synth punk)
246. headdress - lunes (drone/psych)
247. vetiver - tight knit (folk)
248. fly girlz - da brats from da ville (hip-hop)
249. gaza - he is never coming back (metalcore)
250. amber asylum - bitter river (neoclassical/neofolk)



HONORABLE MENTIONS

school of emotional engineering - self titled
manual zombie - autumn
purple mercy - self-titled
horseback - the invisible mountain
the sunday reeds - drowning in history
gnaw their tongues - all the dread magnificence of perversity
reigns - house on the causeway
lewd acts - black eye blues
harvestman - in a dark tongue
the balconies - self titled
doomriders - darkness come alive
message to bears - departures
keef baker - pen fifteen
deafest - eroding peaks
yagya - rigning
louis sclavis - lost on the way
subway - subway II
pastels & tenniscoats - two sunsets
mathias grassow - transpersonal
little girls - concepts
rakkaus - jokainen päivä on taistelua
ooioo - armonico hewa
piano magic - ovations
wooden veil - self titled
variant - the setting sun
mammoth grinder - extinction of humanity
the super vacations - self-titled
jay reatard - watch me fall
bloody panda - summon
ethere - self titled
vaka - kappa delta phi
intrusion - the seduction of silence
cindytalk - the crackle of my soul
rusted shut - dead
urfaust - einsiedler
julian lynch - orange you glad
celer - capri
kryptic minds - one of us
eternal tapestry - the invisible landscape
dominic - nord
(v.e.g.a.) - far from you
wet hair - dream
brock van wey - white clouds drift on and on
red fang - self titled
sons of otis - exiled
oneohtrix point never - zones without people
2562 - unbalance
razor of occam - homage to martyrs
mountains - choral
telefon tel aviv - immolate yourself
arve henriksen - cartography
coalesce - ox
the big pink - a brief history of love
intelligence - fake surfers
jabladav - atta vinter
municipal waste - massive aggressive
ecovillage - phoenix asteroid
aun - motorsleep
wolok - caput mortuum
blues control - local flavor
cluster - qua
hercules and love affair - self titled
kurt vile - childish prodigy
soror dolorosa - severance
the soundcarriers - harmonium
olafur arnalds - found songs
brotzmann/kondo/pupillo/nilssen-love - hairy bones
kaospilot - shadows
aluk todolo - finsternis
subarachnoid space - eight bells
rusted shut - dead
gregor samsa - over air
scale the summit - carving desert canyons
chord - flora
peter broderick - music for falling from trees
goreaphobia - mortal repulsion
sax ruins - yawiquo
conrad schnitzler - silver
mulatu astatke & the heliocentrics - inspiration information
ride for revenge - wisdom of the few

[afterstasis]

TOP EP's OF 2009

comadre - a wolf ticket
vordr - self titled
blessure grave - learn to love the rope
spectrum - war sucks
ithdabquth qliphoth - funeral spirit of holy, holy and holy tranceformation
no age - losing feeling
down to agony - el sueno de vernos caer
the bitters - wooden glove
caina - self titled
final thoughts - dreams of self defeat
cadaver yelleth at amber tower - code: algeria
jesu - opiate sun
francis harold & the holograms - mirror of fear
washed out - high times
ash pool - saturn's slave
memory cassette - call & response
egonoir - a new philosophical thunder
cloud nothings - turning on
lifelover - dekadens
vanessa van basten - psygnosis
errata - self titled
invasion - the master alchemist
moon duo - killing time
zomby - one foot ahead of the other
sore eyelids - self titled
deerhunter - rainwater cassette exchange
the timebombs - i belong in hell
nekrasov - tramp and void
black pus - down down da' drain
julianna barwick - florine
skeletor - self titled
washed out - life of leisure
bokanovsky - we stumble
coming up for air - protagonauts
sleepy eyes of death - dark signals

[Mystlyfe77]

Tribulation's The Horror not even worthy of honorable mention? No mention of From the Womb to the Tomb? Or Black Future? Or Absu? Or The Holy Open Secret? Or Degeneration? Or Spirited Migration?

[afterstasis]

Tribulation's The Horror not even worthy of honorable mention? No mention of From the Womb to the Tomb? Or Black Future? Or Absu? Or The Holy Open Secret? Or Degeneration? Or Spirited Migration?

i actually had "from the womb to the tomb" and "absu" in there, but had to filter a bit out since i know i'll be lucky to have more than five people actually read through the entire post as it is.


though i won't say this was the absolute best year for music it was definitely up there.
i listened to at least 500 albums and enjoyed a very huge percentage of them.

[instantdeath999]

Bookmarking... just like always, in 2010, I'll likely be stuck in 2009.

[tridentgum0]

There is more albums on that list than I have ever considered listening to.

[back_blows]

I've listened to about 30 of those LP's. I've got a long way to go.

[afterstasis]

i know not everyone has the luxury of nonstop listening time, so if anyone wants specific recommendations of any kind just let me know and i'll do my best to help.

[Fizzeler]

A quick scan I noticed the new Magma album in the list, not Isis or Pelican though

I really need to dig through this list might take awhile though

[afterstasis]

A quick scan I noticed the new Magma album in the list, not Isis or Pelican though

I really need to dig through this list might take awhile though

yeah, the new magma's really good... i'm surprised i haven't heard more praise for it.

never cared for isis or pelican though.