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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. Grouper: Way Their Crept (Free Porcupine Society)
  5. Colleen: The Golden Morning Breaks (Leaf)
  6. Xiu Xiu: La Foret (5 Rue Christine)
  7. Eluvium: Talk Amongst The Trees (Temporary Residence)
  8. Sufjan Stevens: Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
    7/10
  9. Acid Mothers Temple: Iao Chant From The Cosmic Inferno (Ace Fu)
  10. Yellow Swans: Psychic Secession (Numerical Thief)
  11. Jens Lekman: Oh You're So Silent Jens (Secretly Canadian)
  12. Decemberists: Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
  13. Eels: Blinking Lights And Other Revelations (Vagrant)
  14. Richard Chartier: Tracing (Non Visual Objects)
  15. Andrew Bird: The Mysterious Production Of Eggs (Righteous Babe)
  16. Safety Scissors: Tainted Lunch (Scape)
  17. Infidel? Castro: Bioentropic Damage Fractal (Crucial Blast)
  18. Akron/Family: Akron/Family (Young God)
  19. Fiery Furnaces: Rehearsing My Choir (Rough Trade)
  20. Bird Show: Green Inferno (Kranky)
  21. Harris Newman: Accidents with Nature and Each Other (Strange Attractors)
  22. Serena-Maneesh: Serena-Maneesh (Playlouder)
  23. Black Dice: Broken Ear Record (DFA)
  24. Caribou: The Milk Of Human Kindness (Leaf)
  25. Nudge: Cached (Kranky)
  26. Sunn O))): Black One (Southern Lord)
  27. Menomena: Under An Hour (Film Guerrero)
  28. System Of A Down: Mezmerize (Columbia)
  29. Lorna: Static Patterns & Souvenirs (Words On Music)
  30. Khanate: Capture & Release (Hydra Head)
  31. By The End Of Tonight: A Tribute To Tigers (Temporary Residence)
  32. Kevin Blechdom: Eat My Heart Out (Chicks On Speed)
  33. Mountains Mountains (Apestaartje)
  34. No-Neck Blues Band: Qvaris (5 Rue Christine)
  35. Corrupted: El Mundo Frio (HG Fact)
  36. Dirty Projectors: The Getty Address (Western Vinyl)
  37. Fear Falls Burning: He Spoke in Dead Tongues (Projekt)
  38. My Cat Is An Alien: The Cosmological Eye Trilogy (Last Visible Dog)
  39. Wolf Parade: Apologies To The Queen Mary (Sub Pop)
  40. Jasun Martz: The Pillory/ The Battle (Under the Asphalt)
  41. Pamela Z: A Delay Is Better (Starkland)
  42. Jan Jelinek: Kosmischer Pitch (scape)
  43. Monarch: 666 (Solitude)
  44. Venetian Snares: Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett (Planet Mu)
  45. Wold: L.O.T.M.P. (Profound Love)
  46. Drones: Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float (Shock)
  47. Rosetta: The Galilean Satellites (Translation Loss)
  48. Okkervil River: Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar)
  49. Black Lips: Let It Bloom (In The Red)
  50. Daedelus: Exquisite Corpse (Ninja Tune)
  51. Gang Gang Dance: God's Money (Social Registry)
  52. Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Absencen (Staubgold)
  53. Darkspace: II (Avantgarde)
  54. Hella: Church Gone Wild / Chirpin Hard (Suicide Squeeze)
  55. Suishou No Fune: Suishou No Fune (Japanoise)
  56. Kanye West: Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella)
  57. Tape: Rideau (Hapna)
  58. Shugo Tokumaru: L.S.T. (Active Suspension)
  59. Gogol Bordello: Gypsy Punks (Side One Dummy)
  60. Psychic Paramount: Gamelan Into The Mink Supernatural (No Quarter)
  61. Combat Astronomy: The Dematerialized Passenger (Discus)
  62. Horse The Band: The Mechanical Hand (Koch)
  63. 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. Gogol Bordello: Think Locally Fuck Globally
  4. Grouper: Hold A Desert Feel Its Hand
  5. Serena-Maneesh: Drain Cosmetics
  6. System Of A Down: B.Y.O.B.
  7. Bloc Party: Banquet
  8. Eels: The Stars Shine In The Sky Tonight
  9. Jens Lekman: Black Cab
  10. Chuck Bettis: Deathmetal Dancehall
  11. Nudge: Parade
  12. Harris Newman: Driving All Night
  13. Caribou: Yeti
  14. Lorna: The Last Mosquito Fight Of Summer
  15. M83: A Guitar and a Heart
  16. Animal Collective: Grass
  17. Rihanna: Pon De Replay
  18. Architecture In Helsinki: It's 5
  19. Dirty Projectors: Warholian Wigs
  20. Okkervil River: A Stone
  21. Malcolm Middleton: Devastation
  22. Safety Scissors: After Disaster
  23. Pissed Jeans: Boring Girls
  24. Vitalic: Newman
  25. Okkervil River: Song Of Our So-Called Friend
  26. We Are Wolves: Non Stop
  27. Patrick Wolf: Tristan
  28. Decemberists: The Infanta
  29. Death Cab For Cutie: Soul Meets Body
  30. Times New Viking: Lion & Oil
  31. Sons and Daughters: Taste the Last Girl
  32. Thao Nguyen: What About
  33. Vitalic: My Friend Dario
  34. Bachelorette: My Electric Husband
Extended tracks
  1. Shit And Shine: Ladybird
  2. Orthrelm: OV
  3. Yellow Swans: True Union
  4. Acid Mothers Temple: OM Riff from The Cosmic Inferno
  5. Mars Volta: Cygnus Vismund Cygnus
  6. Menomena: Water
  7. Khanate: Release
  8. Pelican: March To The Sea
  9. James Blackshaw: Sunshrine
  10. Corrupted: El Mundo Frio
  11. Grouper: Close Cloak
  12. Caribou: A Final Warning
  13. Infidel? Castro: (In) Voluntary Emotional Response
  14. Mars Volta: Cassandra Gemini
  15. Wolf Eyes: A2
  16. Rick Cox: Fade
  17. Richard Chartier: Tracing
  18. Sunn O))): Bathory Erzebet
  19. Necks: See Through
  20. Bird Show: Always Never Sleep
  21. Sigur Ros: Milano
  22. Boredoms: Seadrum
  23. Fiery Furnaces: Seven Silver Curses
  24. Colleen: Everything Lay Still
  25. Aki Peltonen: Finnish Waltz
  26. Jesu: Sun Day
  27. Fiery Furnaces: 4823 22nd Street
  28. Mountains: Paper Windmill
  29. No-Neck Blues Band: The Caterpillar Heart
  30. Jasun Martz: The Battle/ First Movement
  31. Sunn O))): Cry For The Weeper
  32. Eluvium: Taken
  33. Out Hud: Dear Mr Bush
  34. LCD Soundsystem: Yeah
  35. Subarachnoid Space: Duster
  36. Dream Theater: Octavarium
  37. Pita: Like Watching Shit on a Shelf
  38. 1349: Hellfire
  39. Fursaxa: Tyranny
  40. Venetian Snares: Ketsarku Mozgalom
  41. Meshuggah: In Death Is Death
  42. Suishou No Fune: The Blue Bird - Betrayal and Freedom
  43. Psychic Paramount: Gamelan Into The Mink Supernatural
  44. Alps: The River Lies With The The Lilies
  45. Raccoo-Oo-Oon: The Canyons Long Winding Words
  46. Mountains: Down Under The Manhattan Bridge Overpass
  47. Monument of Urns: The Ancient Method
  48. White Rainbow: Zome
  49. Combat Astronomy: The Dematerialised Passenger
  50. Akron Family: Italy
  51. 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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