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Best Rock Albums of 2005
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    8/10
  1. Shit And Shine: Ladybird (Latitudes)
  2. Mars Volta: Frances The Mute (Universal)
    7.5/10
  3. Orthrelm: OV (Ipecac)
  4. Colleen: The Golden Morning Breaks (Leaf)
  5. Xiu Xiu: La Foret (5 Rue Christine)
  6. Eluvium: Talk Amongst The Trees (Temporary Residence)
  7. Sufjan Stevens: Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
    7/10
  8. Acid Mothers Temple: Iao Chant From The Cosmic Inferno (Ace Fu)
  9. Jens Lekman: Oh You're So Silent Jens (Secretly Canadian)
  10. Decemberists: Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
  11. Eels: Blinking Lights And Other Revelations (Vagrant)
  12. Richard Chartier: Tracing (Non Visual Objects)
  13. Andrew Bird: The Mysterious Production Of Eggs (Righteous Babe)
  14. Safety Scissors: Tainted Lunch (Scape)
  15. Infidel? Castro: Bioentropic Damage Fractal (Crucial Blast)
  16. Akron/Family: Akron/Family (Young God)
  17. Fiery Furnaces: Rehearsing My Choir (Rough Trade)
  18. Bird Show: Green Inferno (Kranky)
  19. Harris Newman: Accidents with Nature and Each Other (Strange Attractors)
  20. Serena-Maneesh: Serena-Maneesh (Playlouder)
  21. Black Dice: Broken Ear Record (DFA)
  22. Caribou: The Milk Of Human Kindness (Leaf)
  23. Nudge: Cached (Kranky)
  24. Sunn O))): Black One (Southern Lord)
  25. Menomena: Under An Hour (Film Guerrero)
  26. System Of A Down: Mezmerize (Columbia)
  27. Lorna: Static Patterns & Souvenirs (Words On Music)
  28. Khanate: Capture & Release (Hydra Head)
  29. By The End Of Tonight: A Tribute To Tigers (Temporary Residence)
  30. Kevin Blechdom: Eat My Heart Out (Chicks On Speed)
  31. No-Neck Blues Band: Qvaris (5 Rue Christine)
  32. Corrupted: El Mundo Frio (HG Fact)
  33. Dirty Projectors: The Getty Address (Western Vinyl)
  34. Fear Falls Burning: He Spoke in Dead Tongues (2005)
  35. My Cat Is An Alien: The Cosmological Eye Trilogy (Last Visible Dog)
  36. Wolf Parade: Apologies To The Queen Mary (Sub Pop)
  37. Jasun Martz: The Pillory/ The Battle (Under the Asphalt)
  38. Pamela Z: A Delay Is Better (Starkland)
  39. Jan Jelinek: Kosmischer Pitch (scape)
  40. Monarch: 666 (Solitude)
  41. Dalek: Absence (Ipecac)
  42. James Blackshaw: Sunshrine (Digitalis)
  43. Venetian Snares: Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett (Planet Mu)
  44. Wold: L.O.T.M.P. (Profound Love)
  45. Drones: Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float (Shock)
  46. Rosetta: The Galilean Satellites (Translation Loss)
  47. Okkervil River: Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar)
  48. Black Lips: Let It Bloom (In The Red)
  49. Daedelus: Exquisite Corpse ()
  50. Gang Gang Dance: God's Money (Social Registry)
  51. Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Absencen (Staubgold)
  52. Darkspace: II (Avantgarde)
  53. Hella: Church Gone Wild / Chirpin Hard (2005)
  54. Suishou No Fune: Suishou No Fune (Japanoise)
  55. Kanye West: Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella)
  56. Grouper: Way Their Crept (Free Porcupine Society)
  57. Tape: Rideau (Hapna)
  58. Shugo Tokumaru: L.S.T. (Active Suspension)
  59. Combat Astronomy: The Dematerialized Passenger (Discus)
  60. Horse The Band: The Mechanical Hand (Koch)
  61. Times New Viking: Dig Yourself (Siltbreeze)
Playlist
  1. Banaroo: Dubi Dam Dam
  2. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth
  3. Serena-Maneesh: Drain Cosmetics
  4. System Of A Down: B.Y.O.B.
  5. Bloc Party: Banquet
  6. Eels: The Stars Shine In The Sky Tonight
  7. Jens Lekman: Black Cab
  8. Chuck Bettis: Deathmetal Dancehall
  9. Nudge: Parade
  10. Harris Newman: Driving All Night
  11. Caribou: Yeti
  12. Lorna: The Last Mosquito Fight Of Summer
  13. M83: A Guitar and a Heart
  14. Animal Collective: Grass
  15. Architecture In Helsinki: It's 5
  16. Dirty Projectors: Warholian Wigs
  17. Okkervil River: A Stone
  18. Malcolm Middleton: Devastation
  19. Safety Scissors: After Disaster
  20. Okkervil River: Song Of Our So-Called Friend
  21. We Are Wolves: Non Stop
  22. Patrick Wolf: Tristan
  23. Dalek: Eyes To Form Shadows
  24. Decemberists: The Infanta
  25. Death Cab For Cutie: Soul Meets Body
  26. Times New Viking: Lion & Oil
  27. Sons and Daughters: Taste the Last Girl
Extended tracks
  1. Shit And Shine: Ladybird
  2. Orthrelm: OV
  3. Acid Mothers Temple: OM Riff from The Cosmic Inferno
  4. Mars Volta: Cygnus Vismund Cygnus
  5. Menomena: Water
  6. Khanate: Release
  7. Pelican: March To The Sea
  8. James Blackshaw: Sunshrine
  9. Corrupted: El Mundo Frio
  10. Caribou: A Final Warning
  11. Infidel? Castro: (In) Voluntary Emotional Response
  12. Mars Volta: Cassandra Gemini
  13. Wolf Eyes: A2
  14. Rick Cox: Fade
  15. Richard Chartier: Tracing
  16. Sunn O))): Bathory Erzebet
  17. Necks: See Through
  18. Bird Show: Always Never Sleep
  19. Sigur Ros: Milano
  20. Boredoms: Seadrum
  21. Fiery Furnaces: Seven Silver Curses
  22. Colleen: Everything Lay Still
  23. Aki Peltonen: Finnish Waltz
  24. Jesu: Sun Day
  25. Fiery Furnaces: 4823 22nd Street
  26. No-Neck Blues Band: The Caterpillar Heart
  27. Jasun Martz: The Battle/ First Movement
  28. Sunn O))): Cry For The Weeper
  29. Eluvium: Taken
  30. Out Hud: Dear Mr Bush
  31. LCD Soundsystem: Yeah
  32. Subarachnoid Space: Duster
  33. Dream Theater: Octavarium
  34. Pita: Like Watching Shit on a Shelf
  35. Venetian Snares: Ketsarku Mozgalom
  36. Meshuggah: In Death Is Death
  37. Suishou No Fune: The Blue Bird - Betrayal and Freedom
  38. Alps: The River Lies With The The Lilies
  39. Dalek: In Midst of Struggle
  40. Akron Family: Italy
  41. Ascanio Borga: Bad Ground
Jazz
  1. Territory Band: A New Horse for the White House (october 2005)
  2. Acoustic Ladyland: Last Chance Disco (Babel)
  3. Dave Douglas: Mountain Passages (Green Leaf)
  4. Either/Orchestra: Ethiopiques 20: Live In Addis (Buda Musique)
  5. Keith Rowe: The Room (Earstwhile)
  6. Joe Lovano: Joyous Encounter (Blue Note)
  7. Vijay Iyer: Reimagining (Savoy)
  8. Ken Vandermark: Alchemia (Not Two)
  9. Alex Von Schlippenbach: Monk's Casino (Intakt)
  10. Michael Attias: Renku (Playscape)
  11. Edmund Welles: Agrippa's 3 Books (Self-Released)
  12. Free Music Ensemble: Cuts (Okkadisk)
  13. Mats Gustafsson: Catapult (Doubt)
  14. Wayne Shorter: Beyond The Sound Barrier (Verve)
  15. Terence Blanchard: Flow (Blue Note)
  16. Dave Holland: Over Time (Dare2)
  17. Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra: Not In Our Name (Verve)

By genre:

Songwriters
  1. Sufjan Stevens: Illinoise (Asthmatic Kitty)
  2. Andrew Bird: The Mysterious Production Of Eggs (Righteous Babe)
  3. Safety Scissors: Tainted Lunch (Scape)
  4. Kevin Blechdom: Eat My Heart Out (Chicks On Speed)
Post-rock
Psychedelia
  1. Akron/Family: Akron/Family (Young God)
Electronica
  1. Colleen: The Golden Morning Breaks (Leaf)
Progressive
  1. Mars Volta: Frances The Mute (Universal)
Punk/hardcore
Dance
  1. LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem (Capitol)
Heavy rock
  1. Orthrelm: OV (Ipecac)
  2. System Of A Down: Mezmerize (Columbia)
Instrumental
  1. Harris Newman: Accidents with Nature and Each Other (Strange Attractors)

By country:

Britain
  1. Bloc Party: Silent Alarm (Vice)
  2. Lorna: Static Patterns & Souvenirs (Words On Music)
  3. Four Tet: Everything Ecstatic (Domino)
  4. Art Brut: Bang Bang Rock & Roll (Fierce Panda)
  5. Boards of Canada: The Campfire Headphase (Warp)
  6. Comet Gain: City Fallen Leaves (Kill Rock Stars)
  7. Electrelane: Axes (Too Pure)
Germany
Japan
Rest of Europe
  1. Colleen: The Golden Morning Breaks (Leaf)
  2. Larsen: Play (Important)
  3. Tosca: J.A.C. (G-Stone)
  4. Jennifer Gentle: Valende (SubPop)
  5. Aki Peltonen: Radio Banana (ReR)
  6. M83: Before The Dawn Heals Us (Mute)
  7. My Cat Is An Alien: The Cosmological Eye Trilogy (Last Visible Dog)
Australia
  1. Necks: Mosquito/ See Through (ReR)
Canada
  1. Harris Newman: Accidents with Nature and Each Other (Strange Attractors)
  2. Christopher Bissonnette: Periphery (Kranky)
  3. Broken Social Scene: Broken Social Scene (Arts & Crafts)
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