Factory 25 has listened to a lot of music over the past year and here are the top 40 records of 2009:

1. Papercuts - You Can Have What You Want (Gnomonsong)

2. So Cow s/t (Tic Tac Totally)

3. Crocodiles - Summer of Hate (Fat Possum)

4. Sleepy Sun - Embrace (ATP)

5. Atlas Sound - Logos (Kranky)

6. Japandroids - Post-Nothing (Polyvinyl)

7. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)

8. Blank Dogs - Under and Under (Under the Red)

9. Micachu & the Shapes - Jewellery (Rough Trade)

10. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - S/T (Slumberland)

11. Luke Haines - 21st Century Man (Fantastic Plastic)

12. Bill Callahan- Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (Drag City)

13. Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy (Matador)

14. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years (Rough Trade)

15. Bardo Pond - Peri (Three Lobed Recordings)
16. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (Domino)
17. Oneida - Rated O (Jagjaguar)
18. Farmer Dave Scher - Flash Forward to the Good Times (Kemado)
19. Black Sheep - Kiss My Sweet Apocalypse
20. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm (Merge)
21. A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head (Mute)
22. Broadcast and the Focus Group - investigate Which Cults of the Radio Age (Warp)
23. The Boy Least Likely to - The Law of the Playground (+1)
24. The Veils - Sun Gangs (Rough Trade)
25. Cass McCombs - Catacombs (Domino)
26. Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love (Jagjaguar)
27. Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications (Rough Trade)
28. Phosphorescent - To Willie (Dead Oceans)
29. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp)
30. Liechtenstein - Surviving Strategies in a Modern World (Slumberland)
31. Real Estate - S/T (Woodsist)
32. The Clientele - Bonfires on the Heath (Merge)
33. Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter (Mute)
34. Magik Markers - Balf Quarry (Drag City)
35. Girls - Album (True Panther Sounds)
36. Dodos - Time to Die (Frenchkiss)
37. Flaming Lips - Embryonic (Warner)
38. Grass Widow - S/T
39. Mika Miko - We Be Xuxa (PPM)
40. Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware (Drag City)

top 12"/EPs:
1 Destroyer - Bay of Pigs (Merge)
2 Moon Duo - Killing Time EP (Sacred Bones)
3 Spectrum - War Sucks (Mind Expansion)
4 Wooden Shjips - Contact (Mexican Summer)
5. Dum Dum Girls - S/T (Captured Tracks)
6. White Hills - Dead (Thrill Jockey)