2005 album reviews
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| Artist | Album Title | (Label) | Genre | Rat. |
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| Ratings: 10=best rock album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan |
| Badawi | Clones & False Prophets | (ROIR) | ethnic | 6/10 |
| Beck | Guero | (Geffen) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Belbury Poly | The Willows | (Ghost Box) | synth-pop | 6/10 |
| Brendan Benson | The Alternative to Love | (V2) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Between the Buried and Me | Alaska | (Victory) | prog-metal | 7/10 |
| Chuck Bettis | Community of Commotion | (North East Indie) | glitch | 6/10 |
| Jello Biafra & Melvins, | Sieg Howdy | (Alternative Tentacles) | punk-rock | 5/10 |
| Andrew Bird | The Mysterious Production Of Eggs | (Righteous Babe) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Bird Show | Green Inferno | (Kranky) | ambient | 5/10 |
| Christopher Bissonnette | Periphery | (Kranky) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Black Dice | Broken Ear Record | (Astralwerks) | electronica | 7/10 |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | Howl | (Red Ink) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Kevin Blechdom | Eat My Heart Out | (Chicks On Speed) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Bloc Party | Silent Alarm | (Vice) | alt-rock | 7/10 |
| Boards of Canada | The Campfire Headphase | (Warp) | electronica | 6/10 |
| Boduf Songs | Boduf Songs | (Kranky) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Richard Bone | Saiyuji | (Quirkworks) | ambient-pop | 6/10 |
| Books | Lost and Safe | (Tomlab) | digital folk | 5/10 |
| Bright Eyes | Digital Ash In A Digital Urn | (Saddle Creek) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Bright Eyes | I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | (Saddle Creek) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| British Sea Power | Open Season | (Rough Trade) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Broken Social Scene | Broken Social Scene | (Arts & Crafts) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Chris Brown | Talking Drum | (Pogus) | avantgarde | 6/10 |
| Buck 65 | Secret House Against The World | (Warner) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
| Buckethead | Enter the Chicken | (Serjical Strike) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Vashti Bunyan | Lookaftering | (DiCristina Stair Builders) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Kate Bush | Aerial | (Columbia) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| By The End Of Tonight | A Tribute To Tigers | (Temporary Residence) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| John Cale | Black Acetate | (EMI) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Caribou | The Milk Of Human Kindness | (Leaf) | electro-pop | 6/10 |
| Nick Castro | Further From Grace | (Strange Attractors) | acid folk | 6/10 |
| Charming Hostess | Punch | (ReR) | prog-rock | 4/10 |
| Richard Chartier |  Tracing | (Non Visual Objects) | concrete | 7/10 |
| Chemical Brothers | Push The Button | (Astralwerks) | dance-rock | 5/10 |
| Vic Chesnutt | Ghetto Bells | (New West) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | (Clap) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Claudia Quintet | Semi-Formal | (Cuneiform) | post-jazz | 5/10 |
| Clientele | Strange Geometry | (Merge) | Brit-pop | 5/10 |
| Coheed And Cambria | Good Apollo | (Sony) | emopop | 6/10 |
| Coldplay | X & Y | (Capitol) | Brit-pop | 5/10 |
| Colleen | The Golden Morning Breaks | (Leaf) | electronica | 7/10 |
| Colour Haze | Colour Haze | (Elektrohasch) | stoner | 6/10 |
| Comet Gain | City Fallen Leaves | (Kill Rock Stars) | punk-rock | 6/10 |
| Common | Be | (Geffen) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
| Constantines | Tournament Of Hearts | (Sub Pop) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Julian Cope | Citizen Cain'd | (Lain) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Corrupted | El Mundo Frio | (HG Fact) | drone metal | 7/10 |
| Rick Cox | Fade | (Cold Blue Music) | ambient | 7/10 |
| Cult of Luna | Salvation | (Earache) | post-metal | 6/10 |
| Daft Punk | Human After All | (Virgin) | dance-rock | 4/10 |
| Damon & Naomi | The Earth Is Blue | (20/20/20) | psych-pop | 5/10 |
| Dandy Warhols | Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars | (Capitol) | power-pop | 5/10 |
| Darkspace | II | (Avantgarde) | black metal | 6/10 |
| Deaf Center | Pale Ravine | (Type) | ambient | 7/10 |
| Death Cab For Cutie | Plans | (Atlantic) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Death Vessel | Stay Close | (North East Indie) | alt-country | 6/10 |
| Decemberists | Picaresque | (Kill Rock Stars) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Ani DiFranco | Knuckle Down | (Righteous Babe) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Dirty Projectors | The Getty Address | (Western Vinyl) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Dirty Three | Cinder | (Touch & Go) | instrumental | 5/10 |
| DJ Scotch Egg | KFC Core | (Adaddat) | digital hardcore | 6/10 |
| Dream Theater | Octavarium | (Atlantic) | prog-metal | 6/10 |
| Earth | Hex Or Printing In The Infernal Method | (Southern Lord) | doom | 5/10 |
| Edan | Beauty And The Beat | (Lewis) | hip-hop | 7/10 |
| Eels | Blinking Lights And Other Revelations | (Vagrant) | alt-rock | 7/10 |
| Electrelane | Axes | (Too Pure) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Emit | A Sword Of Death For The Prince | (Total Holocaust) | noise | 6/10 |
| Brian Eno | Another Day On Earth | (Opal) | pop | 4/10 |
| Excepter | Throne | (Load) | psych-tronica | 6.5/10 |
| Excepter | Self Destruction | (Fusetron) | psych-tronica | 5/10 |
| Fall | Fall Heads Roll | (Narnack) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Fear Falls Burning | He Spoke in Dead Tongues | (Projekt) | droning | 7/10 |
| Fiery Furnaces | Rehearsing My Choir | (Rough Trade) | alt-rock | 7/10 |
| Foo Fighters | In Your Honor | (RCA) | power-pop | 5/10 |
| Forever Einstein | Racket Science | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| Four Tet | Everything Ecstatic | (Domino) | electronica | 6/10 |
| Sage Francis | A Healthy Distrust | (Epitaph) | hip-hop | 6.5/10 |
| Franz Ferdinand | You Could Have It So Much Better | (Sony) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Green Milk From The Planet Orange | City Calls Revolution | (Beta-Lactam Ring, 2005) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| Guapo | Black Oni | (Ipecac) | prog-rock | 5.5/10 |
| Richard Hawley | Coles Corner | (Mute) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Headphones | Headphones | (Suicide Squeeze) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Imogen Heap | Speak for Yourself | (Megaphonic) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Holopaw | Quit +/or Fight | (Sub Pop) | roots-rock | 6/10 |
| Horse the Band | The Mechanical Hand | (Koch) | metalcore | 7/10 |
| Jaga Jazzist | What We Must | (Ninja Tune) | jazztronica | 6/10 |
| Jneiro Jarel | Three Piece Puzzle | (Viberian) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| Jasper TX | I'll Be Long Gone Before My Light Reaches You | (Lampse) | ambient | 7/10 |
| Jennifer Gentle | Valende | (SubPop) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Khanate | Capture & Release | (Hydra Head) | doom metal | 7/10 |
| Kingsbury Manx | The Fast Rise and Fall of the South | (Yep Roc) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Koenjihyakkei | Angherr Shisspa | (Magaibutsu) | prog-rock | 6.5 /10 |
| Lamp Of The Universe | Earth Spirit & Sky | (Cranium) | psych-rock | 5/10 |
| Lamp Of The Universe | Heru | (Barl Fire) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Larsen | Play | (Important) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| LCD Soundsystem | LCD Soundsystem | (Capitol) | disco-punk | 6/10 |
| Lichens | The Psychic Nature Of Being | (Kranky) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Lightning Bolt | Hypermagic Mountain | (Load) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Lil Wayne | Tha Carter II | (Cash Money) | hip-hop | 7/10 |
| Lorna | Static Patterns & Souvenirs | (Words On Music) | slocore | 7/10 |
| Los Siquicos Litoralenos | A Pleno Ritmo Sideral | (self) | free-folk | 7/10 |
| Low | The Great Destroyer | (SubPop) | slocore | 6/10 |
| M83 | Before The Dawn Heals Us | (Mute) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Stephen Malkmus | Face The Truth | (Matador) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Mars Volta | Frances The Mute | (Universal) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| Jasun Martz | The Pillory/ The Battle | (Under the Asphalt) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| Brian McBride | When The Detail Lost Its Freedom | (Kranky) | ambient | 5/10 |
| Mercury Rev | The Secret Migration | (V2) | psych-pop | 6/10 |
| Malcom Middleton | Into the Woods | (Chemikal Underground) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Monarch | 666 | (Solitude, 2005) | doom | 7/10 |
| Bob Mould | Body Of Song | (Yep Roc) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Mountain Goats | The Sunset Tree | (4AD) | roots-rock | 7/10 |
| Mrtyu | The Burning Ground | (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) | industrial | 7/10 |
| My Cat is an Alien | The Cosmological Eye Trilogy | (Last Visible Dog) | noise | 7/10 |
| Necks | Mosquito/ See Through | (ReR) | ambient jazz | 6/10 |
| Harris Newman | Accidents with Nature and Each Other | (Strange Attractors) | ambient guitar | 7/10 |
| Nile | Annihilation Of The Wicked | (Relapse) | death-metal | 6/10 |
| Nine Inch Nails | With Teeth | (Interscope) | industrial | 5/10 |
| Odd Nosdam | Burner | (Anticon) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| Nudge | Cached | (Kranky) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Oasis | Don't Believe The Truth | (Sony) | pop | 5/10 |
| Oneida | The Wedding | (Jagjaguwar) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Orthrelm | OV | (Ipecac) | metalcore | 7/10 |
| Out Hud | Let Us Never Speak Of It Again | (Kranky) | funk-punk | 6/10 |
| Aki Peltonen | Radio Banana | (ReR) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Pinetop Seven | The Night's Bloom | (Barbary Coast) | chamber folk | 6/10 |
| Porcupine Tree | Deadwing | (Lava) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| Portastatic | Bright Ideas | (Merge) | punkpop | 6/10 |
| Quasimoto | The Further Adventures of Lord Quas | (Stones Throw) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| Red Sparowes | At The Soundless Dawn | (Neurot, 2005) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Riverside | Second Life Syndrome | (Mystic) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Safety Scissors | Tainted Lunch | (Scape) | digital pop | 7/10 |
| Saint Etienne | Tales from Turnpike House | (Sanctuary) | Brit-pop | 6/10 |
| Sigur Ros | Takk | (EMI) | dream-pop | 6/10 |
| Silver Jews | Tanglewood Numbers | (Drag City) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Skaters | Receding Smokebath | (self) | electronic | 6/10 |
| Skygreen Leopards | Life & Love In Sparrow's Meadow | (Jagjaguwar) | acid-folk | 5/10 |
| Dawn Smithson | Safer Here | (Kranky) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Steven Smith | Crown of Marches | (Catsup Plate) | guitar | 7/10 |
| Smog | A River Ain't Too Much To Love | (Drag City) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Smoke & Mirrors | Deities | (Aural Fixation) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| Son Volt | Okemah And The Melody Of Riot | (Sony) | alt-country | 5/10 |
| Bruce Springsteen | Devils & Dust | (Sony) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Strokes | First Impressions of Earth | (RCA) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Subarachnoid Space | The Red Veil | (Strange Attractors) | psych-rock | 5/10 |
| Sunn O))) | Black One | (Southern Lord) | doom | 7/10 |
| System Of A Down | Mezmerize | (Columbia) | nu-metal | 7/10 |
| Tape | Rideau | (Hapna) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Teenage Fanclub | Man-Made | (Merge) | Brit-pop | 6/10 |
| Terra Ambient | The Gate | (Lotus Pike) | ambient | 7/10 |
| Thuja | Pine Cone Temples | (Strange Attractors) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Tosca | J.A.C. | (G-Stone) | trip-hop | 6/10 |
| Tristeza | A Colores | (Better Looking) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg | Dark Clouds Blacken The Sky | (Monolith) | doom-metal | 6/10 |
| Ulver | Blood Inside | (Jester) | prog-metal | 6/10 |
| Chad VanGaalen | Infiniheart | (Flemish Eye) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Laura Veirs | Year of Meteors | (Nonesuch) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Vex'd | Degenerate | (Planet Mu) | dubstep | 7/10 |
| Vocokesh | Through the Smoke | (Strange Attractors) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Keith Fullerton Whitman | Multiples | (Kranky) | Genre | 6/10 |
| White Stripes | Get Behind Me Satan | (V2) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Why? | Elephant Eyelash | (Anticon) | pop | 7/10 |
| Windy & Carl | The Dream House/ Dedications to Flea | (Kranky) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Wolf Eyes | Dog Jaw | (Heresee) | noise | 6/10 |
| Wolf Parade | Apologies To The Queen Mary | (Sub Pop) | Genre | 7/10 |
| Won James Won | Theorist Attack | (RAIG) | collage | 7/10 |
| Xiu Xiu | La Foret | (5 Rue Christine) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Pamela Z | A Delay Is Better | (Starkland) | avantgarde | 7/10 |
| Ratings: 10=best album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan |
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