Top Eight Albums:
8. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
7. Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
6. Fiery Furnaces - EP
5. Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
4. Animal Collective - Feels
3. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
2. Deerhoof - The Runners Four
1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Disappointments:
Eisley - Room Noises
Metric - Live it Out
Xiu Xiu - La Foret
Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
Top Songs of '05:
Architecture in Helsinki - The Cemetary
Deerhoof - Twin Killers (or virtually any song off of the Runners Four)
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago/The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders: Part I: The Great Frontier/Part II: Come To Me Only With Playthings Now
Caribou - Pelican Narrows
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Is this Love?
Devendra Banhart - Quedate Luna
Of Montreal - Forecast Fascist Future
Animal Collective - Banshee Beat
Fruit Bats - Lives of Crime
Top Songs I listened to in 2005 that didn't come out of 2005:
Beulah - If We Can Land a Man on the Moon Surely I can win Your Heart
Sufjan Stevens - Wolverine
Boards of Canada - 1969
The Joggers - Back to the Future
Of Montreal - Tim I Wish You Were Born A Girl
Belle and Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane
Cornelius - Drop
The Mountain Goats - No Children
The Notwist - One With the Freaks
The Amelie soundtrack
Top Music Videos:
The Like - What I Say and What I mean
Bright Eyes - At The Bottom Of Everything
LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations
The Go! Team - Ladyflash
Deerhoof - Wrong Time Capsule