30 records of two.thousand.five that inspired me to write a list.
+ 26 more that I liked but didn’t feel like numbering
& a couple of movies.
-scott dell’amore [redsupergiant AT gmail DOT com]
- Orthrelm Ov [Ipecac]
- Sunn O))) - Black One [Southern Lord]
- Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw [Hydra Head]
- Kinski Alpine Static [Sub Pop]
- Akron/Family & Angels of Light - Akron/Family & Angels of Light [Young God]
- Earth - Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method [Southern Lord]
- Animal Collective Feels [Fat Cat]
- Red Sparowes At the soundless Dawn [Neurot]
- Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene [Arts & Crafts]
- CocoRosie Noahs Ark [Touch & Go]
- Sleater-Kinney - The Woods [Sub Pop]
- Cage Hells Winter [Def Jux]
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And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Worlds Apart [Interscope]
- John Zorn - Masada Anniversary Edition Vol. 5: Masada Rock [Tzadik]
- Boris - Akuma No Uta [Southern Lord]
- Doomriders Black Thunder [Deathwish]
- Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno -Just Another Band
[Important]
- Om Variations on a Theme [Holy Mountain]
- High On Fire Blessed Black Wings [Relapse]
- Big Business Head For the Shallow [Hydra Head]
- Cave In Perfect Pitch Black [Hydra Head]
- Black Mountain Black Mountain [Jagjaguwar]
- Jesu Jesu [Hydra Head]
- Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow [XL]
- Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Matt Sweeney Superwolf [Drag City]
- Sigur Ros Takk [Geffen]
- Torche Torche [Robotic Empire]
- Dead Meadow Feathers [Matador]
- Mogwai Government Commissions [Matador]
- Iron & Wine/Calexico In the Reins [Overcoat]
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- Municipal Waste Hazardous Mutation [Earache]
- Robots And Empire Cast Shadows on Dragons [Glacial]
- Pelican/Mono Split (LP only) [Hydra Head / Temporary Residence]
- Pelican March Into The Sea (ep) [Hydra Head]
- Danger Doom The Mouse and the Mask [Epitaph]
- Minus The Bear Menos El Oso [Suicide Squeeze]
- Bob Dylan - No Direction Home (The Bootleg Series Vol. 7) [Columbia]
- Jackie-O Motherfucker - Flags of the Sacred Harp [Atp Recordings]
- Blackalicious The Craft [Quannum-Anti]
- Belle and Sebastian Push Barman To Open Old Wounds [Matador]
- Handsome Boy Modeling School White People [Atlantic]
- Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine [Epic]
- Doves Some Cities [Capitol]
- Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain [Load]
- Team Sleep Team Sleep [Maverick]
- Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon [Ferret]
- Quasimodo - The Further Adventures of Lord Quas [Stones Throw]
- MF Doom - MM..Food? [Rhymesayers]
- Cephalic Carnage Anomalies [Relapse]
- Deerhoof - The Runners Four [Kill Rock Stars]
- Opeth Ghost Reveries [Roadrunner]
- Akron/Family Akron/Family [Young God]
- Boris w/ Merzbow Sun Baked Snow Cave [Hydra Head]
- Iron And Wine Woman King [Sub Pop]
- Bonnie Prince Billy Summer In the Southeast [Sea Note]
- Oceansize - Music for Nurses (ep) [Beggars UK]
Movies (I didnt get to see a lot this year.)
- Sin City
- Broken Flowers
- No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Murderball- Thumbsucker
- Cinderella Man
Dig- King Kong
- The 40 Year Old Virgin