The Declaration's Top Albums of 2009

Man, 2009 was a wacky year for music. Michael Jackson died, Lil Wayne topped his own brand of fuckin’ insane, and we won’t even get started with the interrupting Kanye jokes. But as much as we like getting our kicks from laughing at the misfortunes of pop stars, here at The Dec we tend to lean towards a more creative musical persuasion, mostly in an effort to make others feel bad about themselves. Here for your amusement are The Dec’s most favorite-est records of the past year. Now if you’ll excuse us, we need to return to our alone time with the “Party in the USA” video. We’ll be back in about twenty minutes; don’t judge.

Melissa Schrettner
1. Dead Man’s Bones - Dead Man’s Bones
2. The Honey Brothers - Demonstration
3. Cursive - Mama, I’m Swollen
4. Nickel Eye - The Time of the Assassins
5. Kris Allen - Kris Allen

Erin Walsh
1. Passion Pit – Manners
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
3. Discovery – LP
4. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5. Lil Wayne – No Ceilings

Anthony Gallo
1. Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love
2. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
3. Girls - Album
4. The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
5. Asher Roth - Asleep in the Bread Aisle

Sam Taggart
1. Real Estate - Real Estate
2. Bowerbirds - Upper Air
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!
4. Discovery - LP
5. Passion Pit - Manners

Michael Rourke
1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. The Hold Steady - A Positive Rage
3. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
4. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
5. Discovery - LP

Alexandra Dimitri
1. Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
2. Woods - Songs of Shame
3. Real Estate - Real Estate
4. Bowerbirds - Upper Air
5. Dan Deacon - Bromst

Christina Avalos
1. Grizzly Bear -Veckatimest
2. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
3. Islands - Vapours
4. Tegan and Sara - Sainthood
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!

Molly Holmes
1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!
2. Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
3. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
4. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
5. Passion Pit - Manners

Corey Bennett
1. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
2. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
3. Brand New - Daisy
4. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
5. Mountain Goats - Life of the World to Come

Rosie Han
1. Amadou & Mariam - Welcome To Mali
2. Elvis Perkins - in Dearland
3. Medeski Martin & Wood - The Radiolarian Series
4. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
5. Vetiver - Tight Knit

Gracie Segars
1. Rammstein - Liebe ist fuer alle Da
2. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
3. Mickey 3D - La Grande Évasion
4. The Donots - Coma Chameleon
5. El Cuarteto de Nos - Bipolar

Rob Froetscher
1. Left & Right - These Were Our Homes
2. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
3. Sufjan Stevens - The BQE
4. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
5. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Pheonix

Mia Flanagan
1. Metal Fingers DOOM - Born Like This
2. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
3. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
4. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. Discovery - LP

Simon Biddle-Snead
1. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
2. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
3. Mos Def - The Ecstatic
4. Yacht - See Mystery Lights
5. Yeasayer - Ambling Alp

Gary Canino
1. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
2. Handsome Furs - Face Control
3. Morrissey - Years of Refusal
4. Andrew Cedermark – Animal Time EP
5. Why? - Eskimo Snow

Hannah Barefoot
1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
2. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
3. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
4. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
5. Handsome Furs - Face Control

AJ Artemel
1. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
2. Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
3. Beirut - March of the Zapotec/Holland
4. The Dead Weather - Horehound
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz

Ekaterina Beletskaya
1. AFI - Crash Love
2. Brand New - Daisy
3. Lamb of God - Wrath
4. Beirut - March of the Zapotec/Holland
5. The Lonely Island - Incredibad

Phil Dameron
1. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
2. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
3. Why? - Eskimo Snow
4. Real Estate - Real Estate
5. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm