I'd love hear people's recommendations - at the moment I'm thrashing Killswitch Engage and Future Of The Left.
What's had you hooked in 2009?

If anyone's interested, these are the albums - not including compilations or rereleases - that have scored 5/5 on the blog during the first half of 2009.

● ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - The Century Of Self
● Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve - Re-Animations Volume One
● Bronx - Bronx III
● Daby Toure And Skip McDonald - Call My Name
● Daniel Merriweather - Love And War
● Decemberists - Hazards Of Love
● DJ Food - One Man's Weird Is Another Man's World
● Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
● Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster
● Fink - Sort Of Revolution
● Frightened Rabbit - Liver! Lung! FR!
● Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
● Grammatics - Grammatics
● Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
● Jo Webb And The Dirty Hands - Acrobat
● Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
● Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
● Marmaduke Duke - Duke Pandemonium
● Mulatu Astatke And Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information
● Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
● Qemists - Join The Q
● Spokes - People Like People Like You
● Wave Pictures - If You Leave It Alone
● We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
● Yppah - They Know What Ghost Know

Check out Drudkh - Microcosmos & Isis - Wavering Radient

I'll see what I can do - had a quick listen to both on Myspace already though.
Drudkh sound pretty heavy going, but worth the effort, while Isis have a bit of a Tool vibe to them, and I shall definitely be investigating further.

Drudkh aren't for everyone I would say but Isis have a very hypnotic feel when I listen to them, you just get lost in it. Anyway I thought I would elaborate on a few more albums I could see as being album of the year.

• Gorod - Process Of A New Decline
  
• Obscura - Cosmogenesis
  
• Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade
  
• Coalesce - OX
  
• Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
  
• Gwynbleidd - Nostalgia
  
• Mastodon - Crack The Skye
  
• The Mars Volta - Octahedron

Yeah I've had Isis on for about an hour now, it's really mesmerizing stuff. Have you heard Omega Code? They remind me of them.

Nope, not heard of them will have to check them out.

You can get a free EP at their website.

Thanks for the heads up, will download it now.

I posted about Isis on the blog - thanks for the tip-off.

No problem, glad to know you liked it. If you like Wavering Radiant I would really suggest checking out Panopticon which for me I see as Isis best work.

I will do.

Florence & The Machine - Lungs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzPUDinjiKo
I'm Not Calling You A Liar

Getting near to the end of 2009 - my Albums of the Year 2009 will be revealed mid-December, so I'm playing catch up until then.
So any suggestions of absolutely amazing albums I may have missed would be most welcome.

Just to let you forum-dwellers know, I have finalised my albums of the year.
The announcement will be made on the blog on December 17 - however I'll give Sound Off advance warning so keep 'em peeled here!