best of 2005.

[user_103]

it's about that time.

[grisha]

ok. while some stuff needs more absorbing and may move up, so far:

top 2:

4G - Cloud
Harris Newman - Accidents with Nature and Each Other

top 10 after that:

Ryan Gregory/Christine Jeanine - 1123 Morley Ave.
Mazk - In Real Time
Sean Meehan - Sectors (for Constant)
Julien Ottavi/Dion Workman - Misenlian
Prurient - Black Vase
Keith Rowe/Sachiko M/Toshimaru Nakamura/Otomo Yoshihide - EL 005
T.E.F./Bastard Noise - Astronomical Sound Images
Twighlight - s/t
The Weird Weeds - Hold Me
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Multiples

the rest of the list:

Tetuzi Akiyama/Günter Müller - Points and Slashes
Astromero - s/t
Rudolf Eb.er/Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock - 23 Brutal-Humouroid Dramas by Rudolf Eb.er
Christian Fennesz/Sachiko M/Otomo Yoshihide/Peter Rehberg - EL 004
GOD - Anti-Sex/Anti-Wiretapping
Anthony Guerra/Matt Earle - In
Arek Gulbenkoglu - Points Alone
Jeph Jerman - Lithiary
Zbigniew Karkowski/Antimatter - KHZ
Daniel Menche - Flaming Tongues
Scenic Railroads - Our Art, Your Nap
Doug Theriault/Brian Moran/Ed Chang - Tic Tac Tek
Trio Sowari - Three Dances

[user_103]

i had done this one list but i know it'll be radically changed as i just listened to the new burning star core lp, the new mouthus on troubleman, a couple of double leopards records and loads more shit. i think i'm gonna have to separate it into a full lengths only category and then a ep/live/whatever. section. there was simply too much great stuff put out this year.

1.Orthrelm - OV CD (Ipecac)
2.Gang Gang Dance - God's Money LP (The Social Registry)
3.Greg Kelley - I Don't Want to Live Forever CD (Little Enjoyer/Gameboy)
4.Excepter - Throne CD (Load)
5.Joan of Arc - ...Presents Guitar Duets CD (Record Label)
6.Animal Collective - Feels CD (Fat Cat)
7.Kevin Drumm - Horror of Birth CS (Chondritic Sound)
8.Hair Police - Constantly Terrified LP (Troubleman Unlimted)
9.Sunn O))) - Black One CD (Southern Lord)
10.Double Leopards - the Blind Destroyer 3"CDR (Chondritic Sound)

[user_710]

Picks thus far:

Birchville Cat Motel: "Chi Vampires" (my undisputed favorite this year)
Double Leopards: "Out of One To One and Through One"
Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood: "Run From Your Honey Mind"
Odd Nosdam: "Burner"
Sunn O))) - "Black One"
4G: "Cloud"
Sean Meehan: "Sectors"
Birchville Cat Motel: "Firepower Fragrant Cloud"
Daniel Menche: "Flaming Tongues"
Burning Star Core: "The Very Heart of the World"
Jack Rose: "Kensington Blues"
Young Jeezy: "Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101"
Bun B: "Trill"

[user_788]

Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood: "Run From Your Honey Mind"

this album is great..def one of the best this year!

[user_333]

At this point,

01. Books - "Lost and Safe"
02. Venetian Snares - "Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett"
03. Reuber - "Kintopp"
04. Gang Gang Dance - "God's Money"
05. Black Mountain - "Black Mountain"
06. Shining - "In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster"
07. Mazarin - "We're Already There"
08. Rosebuds - "Birds Make Good Neighbors"
09. Animal Collective - "Feels"
10. Bob Drake - "The Shunned Country"

Other good ones were Superwolf... Excepter... LCD Soundsystem... and the Field Music was a nice surprise.

[user_463]

Antony & the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now

[user_125]

top 10 so far

1. venetian snares: rossz csillag alatt szuletett
2. mia: arular
3. drop the lime: this means forever
4. jason forrest: shamelessly exciting
5. duran duran duran: very pleasure
6. terminal 11: illegal nervous habits
7. his name is alive: summer bird ep + cdr / ufo catcher lp
8. animal collective: prospect hummer / feels
9. paavoharju: yha hamaraa
10. vashti bunyan: lookaftering

-paul

[franz bieberkopf]

it's about that time.

NOOOOO! it is SO NOT that time yet!!!

[user_752]

got a new turntable today (it's been a good couple of months...). finally gave me the opportunity to really think about the year. until tonight I've been pretty down on 2005, but looking at these lists, there's no reason to. hopefully I'll add some blurbs here later (primarily for my own satisfaction...)

ALBUMS

Isolee - We Are Monster (Playhouse)
Grouper - Way Their Crept (Free Porcupine Society)
Birchville Cat Motel - Chi Vampires (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
Kelley Polar - Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens (Environ)
Lau Nau - Kuutarha (Locust)
Double Leopards - Out of One, through One and to One (Eclipse)
Paavoharju - Yha Hamaraa (Fonal)
Broadcast - Tender Buttons (Warp)
Marsen Jules - Herbstlaub (CCO)
Wooden Wand - Harem of the Sundrum & The Witness Figg (Time Lag)

Lawrence - The Night Will Last Forever (Novamute)
Es - Sateenkaarisuudelma (Kraak)
Endless Boogie - Black/White (Mound Duel)
Gang Gang Dance - God's Money (Social Registry)
Hum of the Druid - Societal (SNSE)
Teotihuacán tape (New Age)
4G - Cloud (Erstwhile)
Mouthus - Slow Globes (Troubleman Unlimited)
Andrew Chalk - The River That Flows Into The Sands (Faraway Press)
Dandy Jack - Los Siete Cstigos (Perlon)

Burning Star Core - The Very Heart of the World (Thin Wrist)
Meneguar - I Was Born At Night (DUNNO DUDE)
Mirror - Still Valley (Three Poplars)
Alvarius B - Blood Operatives of the Bavarium Sunset (Abduction)
Panther Skull - Slothwave (SNSE/Tone Filth)
Richard Davis - Details (Kitty Yo)
Family Underground - Familiar Places (Into The Lunar Night)
Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood - Run From Your Honey Mind (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
Todd Dockstader - Aerial 1/2 (Sub Rosa)
Zaimph - Mirror Images (Heavy Blossom)

Taiga Remains - Moon Colored Dogs (Students of Decay)
Out Hud - Let Us Never Speak Of It Again (K7)
Excepter - Self Destruction (Fusetron)
Hototogisu - Green (Heavy Blossom)
Mu - Out of Breach [Manchester's Revenge] (Output)
Pissed Jeans - Shallow (Parts Unknown)
Neil Campbell - Teasel/Thistle (Heavy Tapes)
Keith Berry - The Ear That Was Sold To A Fish (Crouton)
MIA - Arular (XL)
Mattias Aguyao - Are You Really Lost? (Kompakt)

MIXES

Ewan Pearson - Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi V1 (Soma)
MANDY - Body Language Volume One (Get Physical)
Tobi Neumann - Pass Your Bedtime (I forget...)
Superpitcher - Today (Kompakt)

REISSUES + ETC

Creel Pone in general
Hive Mind - Tunnel Birth (Troniks)
Samara Lubelski - In The Valley (Eclipse)
Ennio Morricone - Crime and Dissonance (Ipecac)
Kemialliset Ystavat - Kellari Juniversumi (Beta Lactam Ring)
Takayanagi Masayuki - Action Direct (Tiliqua)
Prima Materia - The Tail of the Tiger (Die Schachtel)
Scritti Politti - Early (Rough Trade)
Judee Sill - Dreams Come True (Water)
Virgin Insanity - Illusions of the Maintenance Man (De Stijl)

SINGLES/TRACKS (cut off 20 for sanity's sake)

Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl (Get Physical)
Lindstrom - I Feel Space (Playhouse)
Skream - Request Line (Tempa)
Amerie - One Thing (Major Label)
Kelley Polar - Matter Into Energy (Environ)
Ricardo Villalobos - Sieso (Cadenza)
Luciano - Octogonal (Cadenza)
Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone (Major Label)
Sleep Archive - Research (Sleeparchive)
Triola - Leuchtturm [Wighnomy's Polarzipper Remix] (Kompakt)

Cassy - Night To Remember (Perlon)
Wighnomy Bros - Pele Bloss (Freude Am Tanzen)
Daso - Daybreak (My Best Friend)
Argy - Love Dose [Luciano Remix] (Soma)
Stefan Goldmann - Phraselab (Perlon)
Nathan Fake - Dinamo (Traum)
My My - Serpentine (Playhouse)
Magda - 48 Hour Crack In My Bass (Minus)
Break 3000 - Flash A (My Best Friend)
Mathew Jonson - Marionette [Live Edit] (Wagon Repair)

LIVE

Ricardo Villalobos/Richie Hawtin B2B @ Fabric London, November (musical highlight of the year, hands down)
CPOP 'Sets on the Beach' Party @ Barcelona, June
Es/KY/Tony Conrad @ Glasgow, April
Birchville Cat Motel/Sun City Girls @ Glasgow, October

[user_305]

all i know so far is that the snares album is on my list. i really have to sit down sometime in december and actually pick out all of the records i bought that came out this year, put them in a pile and mull it over for a few days. but yeah, it's still just a tad early for me to be deciding.

[Yii]

top 10 so far

1.
2.
3. drop the lime: this means forever
4. jason forrest: shamelessly exciting
5. duran duran duran: very pleasure
6. terminal 11: illegal nervous habits
7.
8.
9.
10.

-paul

[user_305]

wasn't the drop the lime album 2004? i bought it last december and it is the reason that i'm waiting a couple of weeks to get my 2005 list done.

also...that drop the lime album isn't very good. maybe 3 or 4 good tracks... "dubbio" is great, but i always skip everything and just listen to that song.

[user_294]

mare ep (very nice THRONES ripoff)
wilco - kicking television
hella - concentration face DVD
bpb - summer in the southeast

although they're not alike, multiples disappointed me after playthroughs (KFW)

the akron family/angels of light album is very well-arranged and mixed. the tunes ain't bad

haven't heard a lot from this year

[user_353]

mare ep (very nice THRONES ripoff)

That was 2004, and calling them a Thrones rip off is a bit of a weird comparison to me. Sure they're riding the hip sludge metal wave, but Thrones?

Anyway, it's definitely not that time for me yet. I've got to put together at least a top 100, there's no way I can do 10. So much good stuff this year.

[user_60]

Hmm, I'm not sure really, but my list is something like right now:

1. Konono No. 1 - Congotronics
2. Gang Gang Dance – God’s Money
3. Fursaxa – Lepidoptera
4. David S. Ware – Live in the World
5. Om – Variations on a Theme
6. Excepter – Throne
7. Books – Lost and Safe
8. The Clientele – Strange Geometry
9. Animal Collective – Feels
10. The Evens – s/t

11. Lightning Bolt – Hypermagic Mountain
12. Devendra Banhart – Cripple Crow
13. M83 – Before the Dawn Heals Us
14. Landing – Brocade
15. The Coughs – Fright Makes Right
16. Damon & Naomi – The Earth is Blue
17. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
18. The Angels of Light – Play “Other People”
19. M Ward – Transistor Radio
20. Major Stars – 4

[user_125]

wasn't the drop the lime album 2004? i bought it last december and it is the reason that i'm waiting a couple of weeks to get my 2005 list done.

also...that drop the lime album isn't very good. maybe 3 or 4 good tracks... "dubbio" is great, but i always skip everything and just listen to that song.

i completely entirely disagree, i think it's easily one of the most solid full lengths of the year, and i wish it was received better.

and it came out in february. duran duran duran came out in december 2004, altho it was supposed to come out january, so im including it as 2005. or something like that. jason thought it was going to come out in january, but it started shipping and showing up in stores in december.

-paul

[hatta]

it's about that time.

NOOOOO! it is SO NOT that time yet!!!

At this rate we'll be worse then JC whose "best of 2005" thread started in March.

[user_60]

it's about that time.

NOOOOO! it is SO NOT that time yet!!!

At this rate we'll be worse then JC whose "best of 2005" thread started in March.

At what rate? By starting a "best of 2005" near the end of November?

[user_294]

mare ep (very nice THRONES ripoff)

That was 2004, and calling them a Thrones rip off is a bit of a weird comparison to me. Sure they're riding the hip sludge metal wave, but Thrones?

i've only heard a few tracks from it, but "Anisette" struck me as being very Thrones-influenced. Almost glaringly derivative. Maybe it's not, but the drum programming and sudden stop/start/retarding patterns are satisfyingly reminiscent of Thrones.