Best Rock Albums
(Read the reviews)
8/10
- Shit And Shine: Ladybird (Latitudes)
- Toby Driver: In the L..L..Library Loft (Tzadik)
- Grouper: Way Their Crept (Free Porcupine Society)
- Mars Volta: Frances The Mute (Universal)
7.5/10
- Tera Melos: Tera Melos (Sargent House)
- Orthrelm: OV (Ipecac)
- Colleen: The Golden Morning Breaks (Leaf)
- Xiu Xiu: La Foret (5 Rue Christine)
- Hella: Church Gone Wild / Chirpin Hard (Suicide Squeeze)
- David Thomas Broughton: The Complete Guide To Insufficiency (Plug Research)
- Rosetta: The Galilean Satellites (Translation Loss)
- Eluvium: Talk Amongst The Trees (Temporary Residence)
- Sufjan Stevens: Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Shugo Tokumaru: L.S.T. (Active Suspension)
- Andrew Bird: The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
7/10
- Au Revoir Simone: Verses Of Comfort, Assurance & Salvation (Moshi Moshi, 2005)
- Won James Won: Theorist Attack (RAIG)
- Acid Mothers Temple: Iao Chant From The Cosmic Inferno (Ace Fu)
- Yellow Swans: Psychic Secession (Numerical Thief)
- Jens Lekman: Oh You're So Silent Jens (Secretly Canadian)
- Steven R. Smith: Crown of Marches (Catsup Plate)
- Decemberists: Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
- Los Siquicos Litoralenos: A Pleno Ritmo Sideral (self)
- Eels: Blinking Lights And Other Revelations (Vagrant)
- Richard Chartier: Tracing (Non Visual Objects)
- Paul Dolden: Delires De Plaisirs (Empreintes Digitales)
(Righteous Babe)
- Safety Scissors: Tainted Lunch (Scape)
- Infidel? Castro: Bioentropic Damage Fractal (Crucial Blast)
- Between the Buried and Me: Alaska (Victory)
- Akron/Family: Akron/Family (Young God)
- Fiery Furnaces: Rehearsing My Choir (Rough Trade)
- Bird Show: Green Inferno (Kranky)
- Harris Newman: Accidents with Nature and Each Other (Strange Attractors)
- Serena-Maneesh: Serena-Maneesh (Playlouder)
- Black Dice: Broken Ear Record (DFA)
- Caribou: The Milk Of Human Kindness (Leaf)
- Nudge: Cached (Kranky)
- Sunn O))): Black One (Southern Lord)
- Menomena: Under An Hour (Film Guerrero)
- System Of A Down: Mezmerize (Columbia)
- Lorna: Static Patterns & Souvenirs (Words On Music)
- Khanate: Capture & Release (Hydra Head)
- By The End Of Tonight: A Tribute To Tigers (Temporary Residence)
- Kevin Blechdom: Eat My Heart Out (Chicks On Speed)
- Mountains Mountains (Apestaartje)
- No-Neck Blues Band: Qvaris (5 Rue Christine)
- Corrupted: El Mundo Frio (HG Fact)
- Dirty Projectors: The Getty Address (Western Vinyl)
- Fear Falls Burning: He Spoke in Dead Tongues (Projekt)
- My Cat Is An Alien: The Cosmological Eye Trilogy (Last Visible Dog)
- Wolf Parade: Apologies To The Queen Mary (Sub Pop)
- Jasun Martz: The Pillory/ The Battle (Under the Asphalt)
- Pamela Z: A Delay Is Better (Starkland)
- Jan Jelinek: Kosmischer Pitch (scape)
- Monarch: 666 (Solitude)
- Earthless: Sonic Prayer (Gravity)
- Venetian Snares: Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett (Planet Mu)
- Wold: L.O.T.M.P. (Profound Love)
- Okkervil River: Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar)
- Black Lips: Let It Bloom (In The Red)
- Gang Gang Dance: God's Money (Social Registry)
- Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Absencen (Staubgold)
- Darkspace: II (Avantgarde)
- Suishou No Fune: Suishou No Fune (Japanoise)
- Kanye West: Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella)
- Tape: Rideau (Hapna)
- Gogol Bordello: Gypsy Punks (Side One Dummy)
- Green Milk From The Planet Orange: City Calls Revolution (Beta-Lactam Ring)
- Double Leopards: A Hole Is True (Troubleman Unlimited)
- Psychic Paramount: Gamelan Into The Mink Supernatural (No Quarter)
- Combat Astronomy: The Dematerialized Passenger (Discus)
- Horse The Band: The Mechanical Hand (Koch)
- Times New Viking: Dig Yourself (Siltbreeze)
- Cadence Weapon: Breaking Kayfabe (Upper Class)
- Lil Wayne: Tha Carter II (Cash Money)
- Maja Ratkje Post-Human Identities
(Kontrans)
- Gojira: From Mars to Sirius (2005)
- Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree (2005)
- Deaf Center: Pale Ravine (Type)
- Why: Elephant Eyelash (Anticon)
- Vex'd: Degenerate (Planet Mu)
- Jasper TX: I'll Be Long Gone Before My Light Reaches You (Lampse)
- Edan Portnoy: Beauty And The Beat (Lewis)
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Songs
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- Banaroo: Dubi Dam Dam
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth
- Gogol Bordello: Think Locally Fuck Globally
- Grouper: Hold A Desert Feel Its Hand
- Hella: Imaginary Friends
- Serena-Maneesh: Drain Cosmetics
- System Of A Down: B.Y.O.B.
- Bloc Party: Banquet
- Eels: The Stars Shine In The Sky Tonight
- Jens Lekman: Black Cab
- Chuck Bettis: Deathmetal Dancehall
- Nudge: Parade
- Harris Newman: Driving All Night
- Caribou: Yeti
- Lorna: The Last Mosquito Fight Of Summer
- M83: A Guitar and a Heart
- Animal Collective: Grass
- Sufjan Stevens: The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
- Wold: Lug-Dunum
- Rihanna: Pon De Replay
- Architecture In Helsinki: It's 5
- Hella: Gold Mine Gold Yours
- Dirty Projectors: Warholian Wigs
- Okkervil River: A Stone
- Shugo Tokumaru: Kiiro
- Malcolm Middleton: Devastation
- Ulver: It Is Not Sound
- Safety Scissors: After Disaster
- Won James Won: Un Pipistrello Rosso
- Pissed Jeans: Boring Girls
- Vitalic: Newman
- Okkervil River: Song Of Our So-Called Friend
- Los Siquicos Litoralenos: El Gran Ritmo Sideral
- We Are Wolves: Non Stop
- Patrick Wolf: Tristan
- Decemberists: The Infanta
- Death Cab For Cutie: Soul Meets Body
- M83: Teen Angst
- Times New Viking: Lion & Oil
- Sons and Daughters: Taste the Last Girl
- Thao Nguyen: What About
- Vitalic: My Friend Dario
- Bachelorette: My Electric Husband
- Maximo Park: Apply Some Pressure
- Pinetop Seven: June
- Edan: The Science Of The Two
- Shugo Tokumaru: Mist
- Lil Wayne: Hustler Musik
- Wingdale Community Singers: Rat on the Tracks
- Belbury Poly: Wildspot
- Quasimoto: Closer
- Horse The Band: Manateen
- Au Revoir Simone: And Sleep Al Mar
- Roisin Murphy : Ramalama
- Andrew Jackson Jihad (AJJ): Ladykiller
- Amy Rigby: Dancing With Joey Ramone
- Grazhdanskaya Oborona: Nebo Kak Kofe/ The Sky is like Coffee
- White Stripes: Blue Orchid
- Mountain Goats: Dinu Lipatti's Bones
- Imogen Heap: Hide and Seek
- Deaf Center: Thread
- Why: Rubber Traits
- Vex'd: Lion V.I.P.
- Franz Ferdinand: Evil and a Heathen
- Atmosphere: The Arrival
- Kevin Blechdom: Too Much To Touch
Extended compositions
- Shit And Shine: Ladybird
- Tera Melos: Melody 8
- Orthrelm: OV
- Yellow Swans: True Union
- Acid Mothers Temple: OM Riff from The Cosmic Inferno
- Toby Driver: Kandu vs Corky (Horrorca)
- Mars Volta: Cygnus Vismund Cygnus
- Menomena: Water
- Khanate: Release
- Pelican: March To The Sea
- James Blackshaw: Sunshrine
- Rosetta: Sol
- Corrupted: El Mundo Frio
- Grouper: Close Cloak
- Caribou: A Final Warning
- Infidel? Castro: (In) Voluntary Emotional Response
- Wolf Eyes: A2
- Earthless: Flower Travelin' Man
- Green Milk From The Planet Orange: Concrete City Breakdown
- Mars Volta: Cassandra Gemini
- Rick Cox: Fade
- Richard Chartier: Tracing
- Sunn O))): Bathory Erzebet
- Necks: See Through
- Bird Show: Always Never Sleep
- Sigur Ros: Milano
- Boredoms: Seadrum
- Fiery Furnaces: Seven Silver Curses
- Colleen: Everything Lay Still
- Nadja: Autosomal
- Aki Peltonen: Finnish Waltz
- Jesu: Sun Day
- Steven R. Smith: Crown of Marches
- Fiery Furnaces: 4823 22nd Street
- Paul Dolden: Entropic Twilights
- Mountains: Paper Windmill
- No-Neck Blues Band: The Caterpillar Heart
- Toby Driver: Eptaceros
- Jasun Martz: The Battle/ First Movement
- Sunn O))): Cry For The Weeper
- Eluvium: Taken
- Out Hud: Dear Mr Bush
- LCD Soundsystem: Yeah
- Double Leopards: Out Of One Through One And To One
- Sunroof: Be Sure To Boogie
- Subarachnoid Space: Duster
- Mrtyu: Rites Of Death In Body Temple
- Behold the Arctopus: Exospacial Psionic Aura
- Dream Theater: Octavarium
- Pita: Like Watching Shit on a Shelf
- 1349: Hellfire
- Fursaxa: Tyranny
- Venetian Snares: Ketsarku Mozgalom
- David Thomas Broughton: Unmarked Grave
- DJ Koze: Brutalga Square
- Meshuggah: In Death Is Death
- Suishou No Fune: The Blue Bird - Betrayal and Freedom
- Monarch: Les Lumieres Have Been Blown Out
- Psychic Paramount: Gamelan Into The Mink Supernatural
- Alps: The River Lies With The The Lilies
- Nadja: Memory Leak
- Raccoo-Oo-Oon: The Canyons Long Winding Words
- Steven Smith: Crown of Marches
- Mountains: Down Under The Manhattan Bridge Overpass
- Monument of Urns: The Ancient Method
- Red Sparowes: Alone And Unaware
- White Rainbow: Zome
- Double Leopards: White Cadillac
- Combat Astronomy: The Dematerialised Passenger
- Akron Family: Italy
- Sunn O))): Orthodox Caveman
- Ascanio Borga: Bad Ground
- Volcano the Bear: Curly Robot
- Vladislav Delay: The Second Quarter
- Gospel: Golden Dawn
- Excepter: The Heart Beat
- Maja Ratkje: Rotary Torso Extension
- Tape: A Spire
- Koenjihyakkei: Tziidall Raszhisst
- Jasper TX: Letting Go
- Tujiko Noriko: Switch of the Sun in You
- Skaters: Receding Smokebath #5
- Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Die Voegel Sangen Draussen Ihre Ungereimte Melodie
- DarkspaceA>: Dark 2.9
- Jaga Jazzist: Swedenborgske Rom
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Jazz
7.5/10
- Territory Band: A New Horse for the White House (october 2005)
- Acoustic Ladyland: Last Chance Disco (Babel)
- Dave Douglas: Mountain Passages (Green Leaf)
- Either/Orchestra: Ethiopiques 20: Live In Addis (Buda Musique)
7/10
- Vijay Iyer: Reimagining (Savoy)
- Ken Vandermark: Alchemia (Not Two)
- Alex Von Schlippenbach: Monk's Casino (Intakt)
- Michael Attias: Renku (Playscape)
- Edmund Welles: Agrippa's 3 Books (Self-Released)
- Free Music Ensemble: Cuts (Okkadisk)
- Mats Gustafsson: Catapult (Doubt)
- Wayne Shorter: Beyond The Sound Barrier (Verve)
- Terence Blanchard: Flow (Blue Note)
- Dave Holland: Over Time (Dare2)
- Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra: Not In Our Name (Verve)
- Benny Greb's Grebfruit (2005)
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