per oley's request

here is the final tabulation on albums from 2009

Rank Artist Album
1 Phoenix -- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2 St Vincent -- Actor
3 The XX -- XX
4 Atlas Sound -- Logos
5 Neko Case -- Middle Cyclone
6 Grizzly Bear -- Veckatimest
7 Animal Collective -- Merriweather Post Pavilion
8 Yo La Tengo -- Popular Songs
9 Passion Pit -- Manners
10 Cymbals Eat Guitars -- Why There Are Mountains
11 The Flaming Lips -- Embryonic
12 Converge -- Axe to Fall
13 Wilco -- Wilco
14 Wild Beasts -- Two Dancers
15 Japandroids -- Post-Nothing
16 Baroness -- Blue Record
17 Dirty Projectors -- Bitte Orca
18 Real Estate -- Real Estate
19 Memory Tapes -- Seek Magic
20 DOOM -- Born Like This