The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2009. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.

For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2009 in music.

First quarter January + List of albums released in January 2009 Release date Artist Album Genre Label January6 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion Psychedelic pop, electronic pop, synth-pop Domino January9 Saxon Into the Labyrinth Heavy metal SPV/Steamhammer January12 Fever Ray Fever Ray Electronic pop Rabid Ugly Duckling Audacity Hip-hop Fat Beats Records January13 Joshua Redman Compass Post-bop Nonesuch Kreator Hordes of Chaos Thrash metal SPV/Steamhammer Novalima Coba Coba Cumbancha Oh No Not Stereo 003 Timber Timbre Timber Timbre Blues, folk Out of This Spark, Arts & Crafts Various artists Notorious Hip-hop Bad Boy January19 Antony and the Johnsons The Crying Light Baroque pop Secretly Canadian White Lies To Lose My Life... Post-punk revival, indie rock Fiction January20 16 Bridges to Burn Sludge metal Relapse A. C. Newman Get Guilty Indie rock Matador, Last Gang Andrew Bird Noble Beast Baroque pop Fat Possum, Bella Union Anya Marina Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II BeauSoleil Alligator Purse Bon Iver Blood Bank Indie folk Jagjaguwar Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor Deathgrind, technical death metal Metal Blade Coconut Records Davy Indie pop, indie rock Young Baby Records Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains Indie rock Cymbals Eat Guitars Fiction Family Fiction Family Folk, rock ATO, lowercase people John Frusciante The Empyrean Experimental rock, psychedelic rock, post-rock Record Collection Matt and Kim Grand Dance-punk, indie rock, indie pop Fader Label, Universal Psychic Ills Mirror Eye The Social Registry Reel Big Fish Fame, Fortune and Fornication Ska punk Rock Ridge Music Robert Pollard The Crawling Distance Rock, indie rock Guided by Voices Telefon Tel Aviv Immolate Yourself Electropop BPitch Control Umphrey's McGee Mantis Progressive rock SCI Fidelity January23 Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave Grindcore Century Media Sepultura A-Lex Groove metal, thrash metal, death metal SPV January26 Architects Hollow Crown Metalcore, mathcore Century Media, Distort, United By Fate Records Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand Indie rock, dance-punk, new wave Domino The Phantom Band Checkmate Savage Folk, pop, blues Chemikal Underground Stuck in the Sound Shoegazing Kids Indie rock, shoegaze Discograph January27 The Bird and the Bee Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future Indie pop, electronic Blue Note Bruce Springsteen Working on a Dream Rock Columbia Crooked X Crooked X Hard rock, heavy metal Capitol Dälek Gutter Tactics Ipecac Dirty Little Rabbits Simon Indie The End Duncan Sheik Whisper House RCA Victor Hoobastank Fornever Post-grunge, alternative rock Island Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes Eye Legacy Hip-hop, R&B Mass Appeal, eOne Nickel Eye The Time of the Assassins Rykodisc Ten Second Epic Hometown Alternative rock, emo Black Box Music

February + List of albums released in February 2009 Release date Artist Album Genre Label February2 Adagio Archangels in Black Symphonic metal, progressive metal, doom metal Listenable Ben Kweller Changing Horses Country rock, alt-country, folk rock ATO, The Noise Company The View Which Bitch? Indie rock 1965 February3 Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague Death metal Metal Blade A Day to Remember Homesick Metalcore, pop-punk, post-hardcore Victory Dierks Bentley Feel That Fire Country Capitol Nashville The Fray The Fray Alternative rock, pop rock Epic The Loved Ones Distractions Punk rock, Americana Fat Wreck Chords The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Indie pop, noise pop, dream pop Slumberland The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Lonely Road Alternative rock, pop-punk, emo pop Virgin Two Tongues Two Tongues Pop-punk, indie rock, emo Vagrant The Von Bondies Love, Hate and Then There's You Alternative rock, garage rock Majordomo Wavves Wavvves Noise pop, lo-fi Fat Possum February4 Hideki Sakamoto and Naoki Satō 428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de Original Soundtrack Lantis Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You Electropop Regal, Parlophone February9 Emmy the Great First Love Anti-folk Close Harbour Records Hot Leg Red Light Fever Glam metal, hard rock, glam rock Barbecue Rock Records Van Morrison Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl Folk rock Listen to the Lions Records February10 Bobby V The Rebirth R&B Blu Kolla Dreams, EMI Dan Auerbach Keep It Hid Blues rock, garage rock, indie folk Nonesuch India Arie Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics R&B Soulbird Records, Universal Republic The Lonely Island Incredibad Comedy hip-hop Universal Republic Malajube Labyrinthes Indie rock Dare to Care Red Innocence & Instinct Alternative metal, Christian rock, post-grunge Sony Music, Essential Ryan Leslie Ryan Leslie R&B, hip-hop NextSelection Lifestyle Group, Casablanca, Universal Motown February13 Mando Diao Give Me Fire! Indie rock, garage rock Universal February15 Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles Indie rock, punk rock Quote Unquote, Asian Man February16 Morrissey Years of Refusal Alternative rock Decca, Lost Highway Various artists Dark Was the Night Alternative rock, indie pop, indie rock 4AD February17 Alela Diane To Be Still Indie folk, psychedelic folk, Americana Rough Trade ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Century of Self Art rock Richter Scale, Justice Records The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha Indie rock, post-rock Vagrant, The Militia Group Asobi Seksu Hush Dream pop Polyvinyl Beirut March of the Zapotec/Holland Indie folk, Balkan folk, electronica Pompeii Records J-Kwon Hood Hop 2 Hood Hop Music Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Americana, folk Lightning Rod Records Lissy Trullie Self-Taught Learner American Myth Records, Wichita Living Things Habeas Corpus Indie rock Jive M. Ward Hold Time Alternative, folk Merge, 4AD Mishka Above the Bones N.A.S.A. The Spirit of Apollo Baile funk, hip hop, electronica Anti- Plushgun Pins & Panzers New wave, indie rock, synth-pop Tommy Boy Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons Progressive metal, djent, instrumental rock Prosthetic Thursday Common Existence Post-hardcore Epitaph Vetiver Tight Knit Folk rock Sub Pop William Elliott Whitmore Animals in the Dark Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain Black metal, dark ambient Southern Lord, Conspiracy Records Zu Carboniferous Experimental metal Ipecac February20 Toni Gonzaga and Sam Milby Love Duets Pop Star Music February23 Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II – Dialogue with the Stars Atmospheric black metal Candlelight Gui Boratto Take My Breath Away House, minimal techno Kompakt Lamb of God Wrath Groove metal, thrash metal Epic, Roadrunner The Prodigy Invaders Must Die New rave Cooking Vinyl February24 B-Real Smoke n Mirrors West Coast hip-hop, Latin hip-hop Duck Down Black Lips 200 Million Thousand Garage punk, psychedelic rock Vice Chris Isaak Mr. Lucky Rock and roll Wicked Games, Reprise Clem Snide Hungry Bird Alternative country 429 Gentleman Reg Jet Black Indie pop Arts & Crafts God Forbid Earthsblood Thrash metal, metalcore Century Media Howie Beck How to Fall Down in Public Indie rock 13 Clouds Records Jake Owen Easy Does It Country RCA Nashville JJ Cale Roll On Americana Rounder Joe Budden Padded Room Hip-hop Amalgam Digital K'naan Troubadour Canadian hip-hop, worldbeat A&M/Octone Marianas Trench Masterpiece Theatre Pop-punk, symphonic rock 604 MC Lars This Gigantic Robot Kills Nerdcore, ska punk, West Coast hip-hop Oglio Project Pat Real Recognize Real Gangsta rap, Southern hip-hop Hypnotize Minds, Asylum February25 Jenny Wilson Hardships! Art rock Gold Medal Recordings February27 Now, Now Every Children Cars Indie pop Tapete U2 No Line on the Horizon Rock Mercury, Island, Interscope

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