# Best Pazz & Jop Critics Poll Album 2009 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 18, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-2009/710211 "2015-01-18T20:32:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-2009/710211/1 "2015-01-18T20:32:22Z")
Lots of good albums this year - the top 4 are all modern classics. A tough choice - for me it’s between Phoenix and St. Vincent - I’m going to go with Phoenix just because I feel like St. Vincent will make the poll again. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-2009/710211/2 "2015-01-19T01:58:05Z")
Only familiar with the Flaming Lips and Mos Def selections. (And, thanks to you folks, now I appreciate Neko Case – but haven’t heard her 2009 album). Went with Mos Def. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-2009/710211/3 "2015-01-19T10:31:13Z")
Fever Ray - a big surprise to someone like me, who only knows (and likes) her (Karin Dreijer Andersson ) from her [Röyksopp](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADBKdSCbmiM) collabos, but this was lovely, crazy shit - kind of reminded me of Diamanda Galás , if Diamanda was more into electronica. Also got me to check out The Knife, her band with her brother, equally good. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-2009/710211/4 "2015-01-19T12:47:09Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Fever Ray - a big surprise to someone like me, who only knows (and likes) her (Karin Dreijer Andersson ) from her [Röyksopp](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADBKdSCbmiM) collabos, but this was lovely, crazy shit - kind of reminded me of Diamanda Galás , if Diamanda was more into electronica. Also got me to check out The Knife, her band with her brother, equally good. I gave the Knife album to my aunt, who is a professor of the intersection of art theory/practice and neo-Marxist political activism. She loves it. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-2009/710211/5 "2015-01-19T19:15:29Z")
Hm. I’m hoping we can get at least one more vote for something already voted for - otherwise I’m going to have to do 8 entries for one year when I do my best of the decade polls. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-2009/710211/6 "2015-01-20T00:27:43Z")
This tornado loves you… A lot to choose from this year, these were all favorites at some point: 1. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion 2. Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 3. Neko Case: Middle Cyclone 4. Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca 5. The xx: xx 6. The Avett Brothers: I and Love and You