The Sound and The Furry’s 10 Favorite Albums of 2009

1. Chuck Ragan - Gold Country

2. The Wooden Sky - If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone

3. Evening Hymns - Spirit Guides

4. Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love

5. Bombadil - Tarpits and Canyonlands

6. Perkasie - (s/t)

7. Dan Mangan - Nice, Nice, Very Nice

8. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

9. The Mumlers - Don’t Throw Me Away

10. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below

Honorable Mentions (aka #11-#18 in no particular order - after the jump):


Bear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth

ListenListen - Hymns from Rhodesia

Bruce Peninsula - A Mountain is a Mouth

Ape School - Ape School

Grand Archives - Keep in Mind Frankenstein

The Black Atlantic - Reverence for Fallen Trees

Megafaun - Gather, Form & Fly

Secret Powers - Secret Powers and the Electric Family Choir

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