Roy Stannard’s Top 25 Albums of 2009

1.          Wild Beasts – Two Dancers

2.          Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why there are mountains

3.          Grammatics – Grammatics

4.          Titus Andronicus – The Airing of Grievances

5.          Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter

6.          Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion

7.          The XX – The XX

8.          Bombay Bicycle Club – I had the blues..

9.          The Unthanks – Here’s the Tender Coming

10.        Mumford & Sons – Sigh no More

11.        The Mummers – Tale to Tell

12.        We were promised Jetpacks – These four walls

13.        The Pains of being Pure at Heart – Ibid

14.        The Antlers – Hospice

15.        Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest

16.        The Twilight Sad – Forget the Night Ahead

17.        Empire of the Sun – Walking on a Dream

18.        Mew – No more stories/are told today

19.        Richard Walters – The Animal

20.        The Temper Trap – Conditions

21.        Noah & the Whale – The First days of Spring

22.        Shirley Bassey – The Performance

23.        Lisa Hannigan – Sea Sew

24.        Riceboy Sleeps – Riceboy Sleeps

25.        The Veils – Sun Gangs