2009 Top 15 EPs

An EP (extended play) is defined as a record, cd or audio file that is larger than a single but not long enough to be a full length album. Sometimes bands remind their listeners of their presence with a teaser of what may come; other times an EP represents a chronicling of a creative period for the band. The origin of the EP is the 7 inch record and is a medium that became obsolete and was re popularized in the Punk era. Many of the EPs on this year's list are either an introduction to some new and exciting bands breaking into the music scene or are annual favorites exhibiting many of the creative experiments that were a result from a track that landed on a recently released album.

15. Washed Out-Life of Leisure EP
14. Warpaint Exquisite Corpse EP
13. Dum Dum Girls-Your Alone
12.The Pains of Being Pure at Heart-Higher Than the Stars
11. Beirut-March of the Zapotec/Realpeople Holland
10. No Age-Losing Feeling
9. Blitzen Trapper-Black River Killer
8. Aushua-Limbo EP
7. Animal Collective-Fall Be Kind EP
6. Modest Mouse-No One's First and You're Next
5. Moonface-Dreamland EP: Marimba and Shit-Drums
4. Death Cab for Cutie-The Open Door EP
3. Andrew Bird-Fitz and the Dizzyspells
2. Bon Iver-Blood Bank
1. Dirty Projectors-Temecula Sunrise