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It’s official: Zu’s incredible Carboniferous is the best album of 2009! The Italian trio set the bar very early in the year, way back in February, and what a year it’s been! Here’s the full rundown of the records that made our 2009, as seen in issue 23:
1 Zu ‘Carboniferous’ (Ipecac)
2 SunnO))) ‘Monoliths & Dimensions’ (Southern Lord)
3 Richard Youngs ‘Under Stellar Stream’ (Jagjaguwar)
4 Khanate ‘Clean Hands Go Foul’ (Hydra Head)
5 Celan ‘Halo’ (Exile On Mainstream)
6 Converge ‘Axe To Fall’ (Epitaph)
7 Cobalt ‘Gin’ (Profound Lore)
8. Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine ‘Audacity Of Hype’ (Alternative Tentacles)
9 El Grupo Nuevo De Omar Rodriguez Lopez ‘Cryptomnesia’ (Rodriguez Lopez Productions)10 Part Chimp ‘Thriller’ (Rock Action)
11 Sonic Youth ‘The Eternal’ (Matador)
12 Secret Chiefs 3: Traditionalists ‘Le Mani Destre Recise…’ (Web Of Mimicry)
13 Pissed Jeans ‘King Of Jeans’ (Sub Pop)
14 Kong ‘Snake Magnet’ (Brew)
15 Slayer ‘World Painted Blood’ (American)
16 Eagle Twin ‘The Unkindness Of Crows” (Southern Lord)
17 Gnaw ‘This Face’ (Conspiracy)
18 Baroness ‘Blue Record’ (Relapse)
19 The Flaming Lips ‘Embryonic’ (Warner)
20 Dälek ‘Gutter Tactics’ (Ipecac)
21 The Mars Volta ‘Octahedron’ (Mercury)22 Pelican ‘What We All Come To Need’ (Southern Lord)
23 MadLove ‘White With Foam’ (Ipecac)
24 Shrinebuilder s/t (Neurot)
25 Portal ‘Swarth’ (Profound Lore)
26 Them Crooked Vultures s/t (Sony)
27 Bushman’s Revenge: “You Lost Me At Hello” (Rune Grammofon)
28 Mountains ‘Choral’ (Thrill Jockey)
29 Minsk ‘With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone’ (Relapse)
30 Keelhaul ‘Triumphant Return To Obscurity’ (Hydra Head)
