Except for the songs that made my Top 20 Songs of 2009, these are the rest of the best indie and indie-minded rock tracks of 2009 (Volume 3 of 3). To be eligible, a song needed to be included on an album released in the United States between December 1, 2008 and November 30, 2009.

1. Psapp “I Want That” The Camel’s Back (Domino)

2. Dirty Projectors “Stillness is the Move” Bitte Orca (Domino)

3. Sunset Rubdown “Silver Moons” Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar)

4. Manchester Orchestra “I’ve Got Friends” Mean Everything to Nothing (Favorite Gentleman/Canvasback)

5. Florence + The Machine “My Boy Builds Coffins” Lungs (Island)

6. Heartless Bastards “Wide Awake” The Mountain (Fat Possum)

7. Lights “Fire Night” Rites (Drag City)

8. UUVVWWZ “Jap Dad” UUVVWWZ (Saddle Creek)

9. Karen O and the Kids “Capsize” Where the Wild Things Are Soundtrack (Interscope)

10. PJ Harvey & John Parish “Black Hearted Love” A Woman A Man Walked By (Island)

11. Skye “Exhale” Keeping Secrets (Skyewards)

12. Bat for Lashes “Daniel” Two Suns (Astralwerks)

13. St. Vincent “Laughing With a Mouth of Blood” The Strangers (4AD)

14. Electric Owls “Kamiakin” Ain’t Too Bright (Vagrant)

15. The Flaming Lips “Silver Trembling Hands” Embryonic (Warner Brothers)

16. Mew “Beach” No More Stories Are Told Today… (Columbia)

17. M. Ward “Stars of Leo” Hold Time (Merge)

18. Animal Collective “Summertime Clothes” Merriweather Post Pavillion (Domino)

19. The Fiery Furnaces “Staring at the Steeple” I’m Going Away (Thrill Jockey)

20. UUVVWWZ “Shark Suit” UUVVWWZ (Saddle Creek)

21. The Dead Weather “I Cut Like a Buffalo” Horehound (Third Man/Warner Brothers)

22. Sunset Rubdown “You Go On Ahead (Trumpet Trumpet II)” Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar)

23. Julian Casablancas “River of Brakelights” Phrazes for the Young (RCA)

24. The Flaming Lips “Watching the Planets” Embryonic (Warner Brothers)

25. Ramona Falls “I Say Fever” Intuit (Barsuk)

26. Skye “Almost Killed Me” Keeping Secrets (Skyewards)

27. St. Vincent “Save Me From What I Want” The Strangers (4AD)

28. UUVVWWZ “Green Starred Sleeve” UUVVWWZ (Saddle Creek)

29. Sunset Rubdown “Nightingale/December Song” Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar)