Mark Morton, the Soundtrack Examiner listed his top twenty soundtracks of 2009, and New Moon (the score) makes the list at number 9!

9. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON (Alexandre Desplat) – Go ahead, call me a sellout, but Desplat’s motifs on this score will not leave my head. I was actually agonizing over which Desplat release to include on this list (he did seven scores for 2009), and I had narrowed it down to this one and Coco Avant Chanel. And while Coco was ultra-elegant and sophisticated, it ultimately seemed formulaic for Desplat’s ability. New Moon, on the other hand, is what happens when a composer truly loses himself in his music. Each chord progression is a different emotion, swelling and swooning as it reaches its impending detonation. Whether or not you’ve seen the movie, it is challenging not to be moved by Desplat’s work herein.

See the rest of the list here.