Of the artists I started listening to in 2009, those listed are my absolute favorites. Including the album(s) I discovered them from, and my favorite tracks, with occasional comments exclaiming over their brilliance.

• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Raisin Sand
  • Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) - Oh man, this song. It pretty much sealed the deal on this album for me.
  • Fortune Teller
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Howl
  • Shuffle Your Feet - Another one of my favorites from way back in January. Fantastic album.
  • Ain't No Easy Way
  • Weight Of The World
  • Fault Line
• Laura Marling, Alas I Can Not Swim
  • My Manic and I - God I love this song. Clever and wrenching and everything I love in a song.
  • Ghosts
  • The Captain and the Hourglass
  • New Romantic - I love her non-CD, acoustic stuff just as much as her CD. That's how I know this relationship will last.
  • Alas I Can Not Swim
• Yiruma, First Love (Yiruma Piano Collection)
  • River Flows In You
• God Help The Girl, God Help The Girl
  • Act Of The Apostle - I knew this was the band for me from this song alone.
  • God Help The Girl - It is incredibly rare that a song, artist, and album that all share the same name will be good. This? Is superb.
  • I'll Have To Dance With Cassie
• Noah and the Whale, The First Days of Spring and Peaceful The World Lays Me Down
  • Love of an Orchestra - THIS SONG. UH. SERIOUSLY. My love for it can not be fully expressed.
  • Five Year's Time
  • 2 Atoms in a Molecule - Thank you, fan video. Thank you.
• Emily Jane White, Dark Undercoat
  • Hole In The Middle
• Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca
  • Remade Horizon
  • Cannibal Resource
  • Stillness is the Move - It took me a little while to get there, but once I got to this song, it really hit me, and the sheer brilliance of this album completely blew me away.
• Florence + The Machine, Lungs
  • Drumming
  • Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) - This song is intense. I love it.
  • My Boy Builds Coffins
  • Blinding
  • Dog Days Are Over - I should just give up and list everything on this album, shouldn't I?
• Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More
  • Little Lion Man - This song tears me into pieces, and distributes me to the hungry hounds of hell. Damn.
  • The Cave
  • Roll Away Your Stone - I love how every song of theirs builds and builds until it is a thing of towering magnificence. I have so much love for this song.