a thousand reasons for taking so long, but it needed doing to finish the year properly...even though we're 3 months and 300 albums into 2010...or something.

Not For Resale's Top 50 Albums of 2009 - full write ups, links and pretty pictures on our blog:

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/top-50-albums-of-2009.html

50. Plankton Wat - Our Solar Beings
49. Velvet Davenport - Happy Ending / Lemon Drop Square Box
48. Cloaks – Serene
47. Falty DL - Love Is A Liability
46. Crocodiles - Summer of Hate
45. Silver Bullets - Free Radical
44. High Wolf - Animal Totem / Incapulco / Supermodern Temple
43. Eternal Tapestry - Palace of the Night Skies / The Invisible Landscape
42. Mountains – Choral
41. Barn Owl - The Conjurer
40. Converge – Axe To Fall
39. Wooden Veil - Wooden Veil
38. Diamatregon – Crossroad
37. Volcano Choir – Unmap
36. Belbury Poly - From An Ancient Star
35. GREYMACHINE – Disconnected
34. Slagmaur - Von Rov Shelter
33. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
32. Ecka Liena - Orb Night
31. Shackleton – 3 Eps
30. Elm – Nemcatacoa
29. Aluk Todolo – Finsternis
28. Partli Cloudi - Rotten Wood
27. Blues Control – Local Flavour
26. William Fowler Collins – Perdition Hill Radio
25. Carrion Wraith – Carrion Wraith
24. Dark Castle - Spirited Migration
23. Ben Frost - By The Throat
22. Atlas Sound – Logos
21. Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight Collective
20. Ilyas Ahmed – Goner
19. Thee Oh Sees – Help
18. Broadcast & The Focus Group…Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
17. Oneohtrix Point Never – Rifts
16. Awesome Wells - The Highs And Lows Of De Witt A Stanton
15. Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
14. Oneida – Rated O
13. Washed Out - High Times / Life of Leisure
12. Worriedaboutsatan – Arrivals
11. Emeralds - What Happened
10. Pissed Jeans – King Of Jeans
09. The Antlers – Hospice
08. Pyramids & Nadja - Pyramids & Nadja
07. Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol.2
06. A Place To Bury Strangers – Exploding Head
05. Peaking Lights – Imaginary Falcons
04. Teitanblood – Seven Chalices
03. Saito Koji – Beautiful
02. Cobalt – Gin
01. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers

HAPPY 2010!!!!! good so far innit.

gxmx