RiverLethe's Faves of 2009

Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
Armed for Apocalypse - Defeat
A Storm of Light - Forgive Us Our Tresspasses / Primitive North
The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
Callisto - Providence
Carina Round - Things You Should Know
Caspian - Tertia
Celan - Halo
Cobalt - Gin
Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons of Bad Luck
Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King
Diablo Boulevard - The Greater God
Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Fight Amp - Manners and Praise
Grant Campbell - Expecting Great Things
Inire - Born the Wicked the Fallen the Damned
Julian Plenti -  Skyscraper
Kellermensch - Kellermensch
Kowloon Walled City - Gambling on the Richter Scale
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Muse - The Resistance
Russian Circles - Geneva
Secrets of the Moon - Privilegivm
Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
Spinnerette - Spinnerette
Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom
Thrice - Beggars