Best releases of 2005 so far?

Top three so far:
LCD Soundsystem - S/T
MIA - Arular
Fannypack - See You Next Tuesday

Runner-ups:
Scout Niblett - Kidnapped By Neptune
Electrelane - Axes

Also looking forward to the new Devendra Banhart record, but that's a lousy list for a year that's eight months old so far.

though THE RUNNER'S FOUR will undoubtedly be album of ze year.

Still waiting for the new Goldfrapp, Broadcast, Mahogany, Mojave 3, and Depeche Mode albums.

and how!

Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie's Mysterious Skin OST... no surprises, but compulsively listenable and wonderful

are still the most emotive, skilfully produced, beautifully sung and gosh-darn best 3 albums out this year.

others...
Vitalic-OK Cowboy
M.A.N.D.Y.-Body Language
Superpitcher-Today

Gustav I know nothing about. Educate me!

Gustav is like a darker, cabaret laptop-based Viennese Bjork. And it too is a wonderful record.

Isolee - We Are Monster
Lau Nau - Kuutarha
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
Richard Davis - Details
Birchville Cat Motel - Chi Vampires
Chelonis R. Jones - Dislocated Genius
Skullflower - Orange Canyon Mind
Gang Gang Dance - God's Money
Endless Boogie - Black/White LPs
Double Leopards - Out of One, through One and to One
Animal Collective - Feels

best mix: Tobi Neumann - Pass Your Bedtime

ah! riiiight.

so...what's the first like?

got to hear Fannypack asap. Barima, I am also very intrigued by Gustav.

Final Fantasy - Has a Good Home
Herman Dune - Not On Top
Robyn - Robyn
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
MIA - Arular

Dunno, maybe this goofy sigur ros will climb its way onto that list, too.

it might tentatively be emerging as a favourite

2005 Albums [AKA the long list]
http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view/list_id_is_14969

See the Gmail thread now for Gustav and Cagedbaby.

(though I haven't grabbed them yet... I am most intrigued by Barms descriptions here & here - search: 2005's future-thinking girl-fronted electronic pop )

(and I still want more info on that new Tujiko Noriko thing :| )

B, the Gustav mp3 won't play on my computer :(

That'll do for ten.

What about the website mp3s?

As for others under the radar, the Supersystem album - Always, Never Again, is a pretty good approximation of the Rapture's best dance moments.
Superthriller (album is Superthriller1) are a British version of The Time.
The Boy Least Likely To - The Best Party Ever is the cutest album about mortality and broken hearts made by rural miserabalists ever made.
Marxy's Kyoshu Nostalgia is a nice lookback at everything that made 90s Tokyo's teenage symphonies to musical diversity and pop music great.

Missy Elliott - "The Cookbook"
M.I.A. - "Arular"
Stephen Malkmus - "Face the Truth"
Fiery Furnaces - "EP"
Ellen Allien - "Thrills"
Jennifer Gentle - "Valende"
Fast N Bulbous - "Pork Chop Blue Around the Rind"
A-Frames - "Black Forest"
Fantomas - "Suspended Animation"
Jason Forrest - "Lady Fantasy EP"

Bah Samba - Bah Samba 4
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
Colder - Heat
Herbaliser - Take London
Jamie Liddell - Multiply
Lemon Jelly - 64-95
Neon Heights - A Hot Trip To Heaven
Out Hud - Let Us Never Speak Of It Again
Patrick Wolf - Wind In The Wires
Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep
Telepopmusik - Angel Milk
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett

the new Jay-Jay Johanson (Rush) is sounding pretty good, but I haven't given it enough of a listen to include it in my best-of-year list yet. i didn't really like the Saint Etienne album (big disappointment for me, actually)

i want to put Maximo Park because I've *really* enjoyed a lot of the album but "Limassol", "Once, A Glimpse", "Now I'm All Over the Shop", and "Acrobat" are all pretty weak tracks and it weighs the whole album down. kinda the same thing with the Magic Numbers record too

and other things i can't be bothered to remember.

That's already way better than last year, when I hardly liked anything.

colleen may stay in heavy rotation till next year, also the fursaxa record, akron/family, errr...braindead today

it's just been a great driving in the car summer soundtrack for me. but (as stated upthread) the album has just a few too many filler tracks to reside on my year's best of.

Tie:
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs

I actually find the AiH album to be very warm. I think it's compositionally excellent and that they were pushing the bar a little there - about as much as, say, Fiery Furnaces on Blueberry Boat, but in making a tighter record. Check the lyrics on their web site and maybe listen again if you're interested?

faves of this year so far are cranebuilders, maximo park, low, tom vek. i haven't heard the art brut or broadcast albums yet. i'd love to hear albums by televise, new rhodes and apartment as their singles so far have blown me away.

i think the tompaulin record is great but i think i overdosed on it a little.

Behemoth - Demigod
Clutch - Robot Hive/Exodus
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
LCD Soundsystem - s/t
The Magic Numbers - s/t
MIA - Arular
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
System of a Down - Mezmerize
Torche - s/t

...plus the new Turbonegro.

bloc party - silent alarm
feist - let it die
isolee - wearemonster
lcd soundsystem - lcd soundsystem
m.i.a. - arular
out hud - let us never speak of it again
stars - set yourself on fire
sufjan stevens - illinois
superpitcher - today
vitalic - cowboy

Bocephus King, All Children Believe in Heaven
Aimee Mann, The Forgotten Arm
Jason Mraz, Mr. A-Z (the lead single is the weakest track)
The Churchills, The Odds of Winning

Yay! More people should hear this!

Best for Oh my God the first half is A-BLOODY-MAZING, pity about the second half : Jamie Lidell - Multiply

Next level Shit :-) : TTC - Batards Sensibles

Honourable mentions : Gustav, Sleater Kinney

hrrrmph! was my mention ignored?

Also:
Royksopp - The Understanding
Mahjongg - Raydoncong
Jamie Lidell - Multiply
The Evens - s/t

Did I mention that I love twee pop?

This is so good. I have personal rules against reissues and compilations making my top ten list, though, so I have to leave it off.

And, um... some other stuff.

R. Kelly : T.P.-3: Reloaded
The National : Alligator
Josh Rouse : Nashville
Jamie Lidell : Multiply
Michael Penn : Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947
Inara George : All Rise
Fruit Bats : Spelled In Bones
Bloc Party : Silent Alarm
Mike Doughty : Haughty Melodic
Hot Hot Heat : Elevator

Yup, just in Canada. In the U.S., Stars came out on March 8 and Feist on April 26, both this year. Which means I'm counting them for 2005.

I'm not, however, counting Annie (May 2005 release in the U.S.) because I first heard the album in 2004.

I am counting Mannie Fresh because it came out on like Dec. 21 of last year or something ridiculous. However, it probably won't make my top 10, so that's moot.

leaked yet?!?

growing on me:
Deerhoof - The Runners Four
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers
Ladytron - The Witching Hour
Githead - Profile
Clor - Clor

let downs:
Fischerspooner - Odyssey
Tosca - J.A.C.
Grandaddy - Exerpts From The Diary of Todd Zilla
Broken Spindles - Inside/Absent
Sam Prekop - Who's Your New Professor
Gorillaz - Demon Days

I'll add Josh Rouse, 'Nashville' to mine as well. so smooth!

Great:
Shortwave Set
Eno
The Books
Mew
Brooke Valentine

Block party:
Arcade
Antony
MIA
LCD
Run The Road
Roots Manuva
Sufjan
St Et
Vitalic

Excellent: Malcolm Middleton
New Pornographers
Kaiser Chiefs
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Polar Bear/Acoustic Ladyland
Derek Bailey's gospel album

Curate's:
Roisin Murphy
Charlotte Church
Kano
Stripes
Amerie
Mitchell Brothers
Isolee
Lady Sovereign

Old gets a new life:
Bill Fay Group
Simon Finn
Basil Kirchin RIP
Julian Priester
Shakin' Stevens
Barry Ryan
It's So Fine: Pye Girls Are Go!
Mike Westbrook's Love Songs

Haven't heard yet:
Broadcast
Gustav
Ellen Allien
Fannypack
Tori Alamaze

I used an online randomizer to pick a year from 1969-2017.
While at work I only played albums from that year.
That year was 2005.

Playlist
Reverend Bizarre - II: Crush The Insects
Manegarm - Vredens Tid
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
M.I.A. - Arular
DANGERDOOM - The Mouse and the Mask
Genghis Tron - Cloak of Love
Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation
Big Business - Head for the Shallow
High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings

Ran Out Of Time
Cave In - Perfect Pitch Black
Deceased - As the Weird Travel On
Early Man - Early Man
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
Louis XIV - Illegal Tender
Pantheist - Amartia
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Serena Maneesh - Serena-Maneesh
Sigh - Gallows Gallery
Taake - Hordalands Doedskvad
Witchcraft - Firewood
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Wormfood - France

That, indeed, paints a disturbing picture.

Just looking in my iTunes by year and going alphabetical, I liked:

The American Analog Set — Set Free
Fiona Apple — Extraordinary Machine
Bark Psychosis — ///Codename: Dustsucker
Beck — Guero (and Guerolito, I guess)
Andrew Bird — And the Mysterious Production of Eggs
Boards of Canada — The Campfire Headphase
Vashti Bunyan — Lookaftering
Kate Bush — Aerial
Coldplay — X+Y
Death Cab for Cutie — Plans
Doves — Some Cities
The Evens — The Evens
Jon Hassell — Maarifa Street: Magic Realism, Part 2
New Order — Waiting for the Sirens' Call
Nine Horses — Snow Borne Sorrow
The Occasional Keepers — The Beauty of the Empty Vessel
Sam Prekop — Who's Your New Professor
Archer Prewitt — Wilderness
Sigur Ros — Takk. . .
Spoon — Gimme Fiction
David Sylvian — The Good Son vs. the Only Daughter
Trembling Blue Stars — Bathed in Blue
Wilco — Kicking Television: Live in Chicago
The Zincs — Dimmer.

Good year.