Every week we visit the staff of Criminal Records for some music recommendations which appear on AUX Weekly Saturdays at 8pm. This week we asked them to give us their top albums of 2009 as part of our best of 09′ week. Let us know what you think of the five individual lists below:

Paul’s Picks

1. Dan Mangan – Nice Nice Very Nice

2. Tom Waits – Glitter And Doom

3. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca.

4. Flaming Lips – Embryonic

5. Antlers – Hospice

6. Timber Timbre – s/t

7. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest

8. Neko Case- Middle Cyclone

9. Do Make Say Think – Other Truths

10. tUnE-yArDs – BiRd-BrAiNs

Josh’s Pick’s

1. Flaming Lips – Embryonic

2. Wilco – Wilco (the album)

3. PJ Harvey / John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By

4. Daredevil Christopher Wright – In Deference To A Broken Back

5. Sonic Youth – The Eternal

6. Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns

7. Julie Fader – Outside In

8. Dan Mangan – Nice Nice Very Nice

9. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca

10. Cuff The Duke – Way Down Here

Wayne’s Picks

1. Wilco – Wilco (the album)

2. Sonic Youth – The Eternal

3. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus

4. Timber Timbre – s/t

5. Julie Fader – Outside In

6. Tortoise – Beacons of Ancestorship

7. Do Make Say Think – Other Truths

8. Wooden Sky – If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone

9. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic

10. Dirty Projectors

Jameson’s Picks

1. Mew – No More Stories

2. Doves – Kingdom Of Rust

3. Flaming Lips – Embryonic

4. The XX – XX

5. Do Make Say Think – Other Truths

6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz

7. Bad Plus – For All I Care

8. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone

9. Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – s/t

10. Fever Ray – s/t

Melody’s Picks

1. TuneYards – Bird-Brains

2. The Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca

3. Think About Life – Family

4. Green Go – Borders

5. Jenn Grant – Echoes

6. The Balconies – The Balconies

7. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

8. Dan Mangan – Nice Nice, Very Nice

9. St. Vincent – Actor

10. Timber Timbre – Timber Timbre