Top 10 Portland Albums from 2009

This was an insanely good year for Portland bands. Narrowing it down to just 10 albums is just stupid, but I am doing it anyway. Although some of these bands are obvious transplants, I considered them a Portland band if they self-identified as such on their MySpace page. Apologies to Hockey, whose Mind Chaos I still love, but it came out locally and topped the list last year.

1. Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist
2. The Builders And The Butchers - Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well
3. Nurses - Apple's Acre
4. The Mint Chicks - Screens
5. The Thermals - Now We Can See
6. Paula Sinclair - Steady Girl
7. M. Ward - Hold Time
8. New York Rifles - Make A Wish
9. Panther - Entropy
10. Scotland Barr & The Slow Drags - We Will Be Forgotten EP