You’re bored of looking at the Pitchfork polls, you’ve been though Drowned in Sound, now it’s the one you’ve been waiting for. Hurrah! It’s the Barnbrook team’s top albums of 2009.

We’ve agonised over it for hours and we’re still not quite sure it’s right, but still, here goes…
In Alphabetical order by surname:

Abbott:
1. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
2. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
3. Boxcutter – Arecibo Message
4. The XX – The XX
5. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
6. Ben Frost – By The Throat
7. Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM
8. Martyn – Great Lengths
9. Harmonic 313 – When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence
10. Broken Note – Terminal Static

Barnbrook:
1. John Foxx – The Quiet Man
2. Rhythm & Sound – The Versions
3. Neu! – Neu!
4. Samuel Beckett – Krapps Last Tape (Audiobook)
5. TheThe – Infected
6. Crystal Castles – Thrash/Thrash/Thrash
7. The XX – The XX
8. La Monte Young Marian Zazeela, The Theatre of Eternal Music – Dream House 78′ 17″
9. Zbigniew Preisner – La Double Vie De Veronique (Soundtrack of film directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski)
10. A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos Complete Original Score

Streat:
1. Micachu – Jewelry
2. The XX – The XX
3. Alela Diane – To Be Still
4. King Midas Sound – Waiting For You
5. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
6. Hyperdub – 5 : 5
7. Girls – Album
8. Ben Frost – By The Throat
9. St. Vincent – Actor
10. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion