Top Albums of 2005
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DangerDoom |
The Mouse and the Mask |
Abstract Hip Hop
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Edan |
Beauty and the Beat |
Abstract Hip Hop,
Experimental Hip Hop
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Quasimoto |
The Further Adventures of Lord Quas |
Abstract Hip Hop,
Jazz Rap
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Ryan Adams & The Cardinals |
Cold Roses |
Alt-Country,
Americana
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Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney |
Superwolf |
Alt-Country,
Contemporary Folk
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System of a Down |
Mezmerize |
Alternative Metal
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25 |
2113 |
Beck |
Guero |
Alternative Rock
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Wilco |
Kicking Television: Live in Chicago |
Alternative Rock
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22 |
1630 |
The White Stripes |
Get Behind Me Satan |
Alternative Rock,
Garage Rock Revival
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Nine Inch Nails |
With Teeth |
Alternative Rock,
Industrial Rock
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Queens of the Stone Age |
Lullabies to Paralyze |
Alternative Rock,
Stoner Rock
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Six Organs of Admittance |
School of the Flower |
American Primitivism,
Psychedelic Folk
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M. Ward |
Transistor Radio |
Americana,
Contemporary Folk
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30 |
2442 |
Ry Cooder |
Chavez Ravine |
Americana,
Latin American Music
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24 |
2064 |
Kate Bush |
Aerial |
Art Pop
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Patrick Wolf |
Wind in the Wires |
Art Pop,
Chamber Pop,
Contemporary Folk,
Singer/Songwriter |
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Tom Zé |
Estudando o pagode (na opereta segregamulher e amor) |
Art Pop,
MPB
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42 |
2948 |
The Mars Volta |
Frances the Mute |
Art Rock,
Experimental Rock,
Progressive Rock
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Elbow |
Leaders of the Free World |
Art Rock,
Indie Rock
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14 |
1103 |
Fiona Apple |
Extraordinary Machine |
Baroque Pop,
Piano Rock,
Singer/Songwriter
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The Chemical Brothers |
Push the Button |
Big Beat
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29 |
2291 |
Jamie Lidell |
Multiply |
Blue Eyed Soul
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club |
Howl |
Blues Rock,
Indie Rock
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Coldplay |
X&Y |
Britpop
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Doves |
Some Cities |
Britpop,
Dream Pop,
Indie Rock
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Kaiser Chiefs |
Employment |
Britpop,
Indie Rock
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Vashti Bunyan |
Lookaftering |
Chamber Folk
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19 |
1419 |
The Decemberists |
Picaresque |
Chamber Pop,
Indie Folk
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1 |
95 |
Sufjan Stevens |
Illinois |
Chamber Pop,
Singer/Songwriter
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2 |
289 |
Antony and The Johnsons |
I Am a Bird Now |
Chamber Pop,
Singer/Songwriter
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28 |
2277 |
Richard Hawley |
Coles Corner |
Chamber Pop,
Singer/Songwriter
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Andrew Bird |
Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs |
Chamber Pop,
Singer/Songwriter
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23 |
2047 |
Common |
Be |
Conscious Hip Hop
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Sage Francis |
A Healthy Distrust |
Conscious Hip Hop
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Devendra Banhart |
Cripple Crow |
Contemporary Folk
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Bob Dylan |
The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack |
Contemporary Folk,
Film Soundtrack,
Folk Rock,
Singer/Songwriter |
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Mariah Carey |
The Emancipation of Mimi |
Contemporary R&B,
Pop
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Neil Young |
Prairie Wind |
Country Rock,
Folk Rock
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CSS |
Cansei de Ser Sexy |
Dance-Pop,
Dance-Punk
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39 |
2786 |
Madonna |
Confessions on a Dance Floor |
Dance-Pop,
Nu-Disco
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Out Hud |
Let Us Never Speak of It Again |
Dance-Punk
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5 |
469 |
LCD Soundsystem |
LCD Soundsystem |
Dance-Punk,
Indietronica
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M83 |
Before the Dawn Heals Us |
Dream Pop,
Electronic
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Maria Taylor |
11:11 |
Dream Pop,
Indie Pop,
Singer/Songwriter
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Vitalic |
OK Cowboy |
Electroclash
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Four Tet |
Everything Ecstatic |
Electronic
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17 |
1144 |
Robyn |
Robyn |
Electropop
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Goldfrapp |
Supernature |
Electropop,
Synthpop
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Kraftwerk |
Minimum-Maximum |
Electropop,
Synthpop
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336 |
M.I.A. |
Arular |
Electropop,
UK Hip Hop
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The Books |
Lost and Safe |
Experimental,
Folktronica
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Deerhoof |
The Runners Four |
Experimental Rock
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15 |
1130 |
Animal Collective |
Feels |
Experimental Rock,
Neo-Psychedelia
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Martha Wainwright |
Martha Wainwright |
Folk Pop,
Singer/Songwriter
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Iron & Wine |
Woman King EP |
Folk Rock,
Indie Folk,
Singer/Songwriter
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Josh Rouse |
Nashville |
Folk Rock,
Pop Rock,
Singer/Songwriter
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CocoRosie |
Noah's Ark |
Folktronica,
Freak Folk,
Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock
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33 |
2488 |
Lil Wayne |
Tha Carter II |
Gangsta Rap
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The Game |
The Documentary |
Gangsta Rap
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The Kills |
No Wow |
Garage Rock Revival,
Indie Rock
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Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane |
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall |
Hard Bop
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Wolfmother |
Wolfmother |
Hard Rock
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The Darkness |
One Way Ticket to Hell...And Back |
Hard Rock
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371 |
Kanye West |
Late Registration |
Hip Hop
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Buck 65 |
This Right Here Is Buck 65 |
Hip Hop
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Boards of Canada |
The Campfire Headphase |
IDM
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563 |
Bright Eyes |
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
Indie Folk
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16 |
1138 |
Okkervil River |
Black Sheep Boy |
Indie Folk,
Indie Rock
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36 |
2616 |
The Mountain Goats |
The Sunset Tree |
Indie Folk,
Singer/Songwriter
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Sr. Chinarro |
El fuego amigo |
Indie Pop
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The Magic Numbers |
The Magic Numbers |
Indie Pop
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Death Cab for Cutie |
Plans |
Indie Pop,
Indie Rock
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The Go-Betweens |
Oceans Apart |
Indie Pop,
Indie Rock,
Jangle Pop
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Mercury Rev |
The Secret Migration |
Indie Pop,
Neo-Psychedelia
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18 |
1241 |
The New Pornographers |
Twin Cinema |
Indie Pop,
Power Pop
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Brendan Benson |
The Alternative to Love |
Indie Pop,
Power Pop
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Of Montreal |
The Sunlandic Twins |
Indie Pop,
Psychedelic Pop
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26 |
2202 |
Eels |
Blinking Lights and Other Revelations |
Indie Pop,
Singer/Songwriter
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9 |
720 |
Sleater-Kinney |
The Woods |
Indie Rock
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10 |
721 |
My Morning Jacket |
Z |
Indie Rock
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13 |
1063 |
Wolf Parade |
Apologies to the Queen Mary |
Indie Rock
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21 |
1610 |
Spoon |
Gimme Fiction |
Indie Rock
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32 |
2468 |
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah |
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah |
Indie Rock
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34 |
2514 |
Art Brut |
Bang Bang Rock and Roll |
Indie Rock
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38 |
2770 |
Low |
The Great Destroyer |
Indie Rock
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41 |
2867 |
Broken Social Scene |
Broken Social Scene |
Indie Rock
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Tocotronic |
Pure vernunft darf niemals siegen |
Indie Rock
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Babyshambles |
Down in Albion |
Indie Rock
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...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead |
Worlds Apart |
Indie Rock
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Hard-Fi |
Stars of CCTV |
Indie Rock
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Tapes 'n Tapes |
The Loon |
Indie Rock
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Stephen Malkmus |
Face the Truth |
Indie Rock
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Black Mountain |
Black Mountain |
Indie Rock,
Psychedelic Rock,
Stoner Rock
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20 |
1566 |
The Hold Steady |
Separation Sunday |
Indie Rock,
Pub Rock
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Archer Prewitt |
Wilderness |
Indie Rock,
Singer/Songwriter
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Broadcast |
Tender Buttons |
Indietronica
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Bright Eyes |
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn |
Indietronica
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Caribou |
The Milk of Human Kindness |
Indietronica,
Psychedelic Pop
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Teenage Fanclub |
Man-Made |
Jangle Pop,
Power Pop
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37 |
2673 |
Isolée |
We Are Monster |
Microhouse
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Lightning Bolt |
Hypermagic Mountain |
Noise Rock
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Boris |
Pink |
Noise Rock,
Stoner Metal
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40 |
2787 |
Paul McCartney |
Chaos and Creation in the Backyard |
Pop,
Singer/Songwriter
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Oasis |
Don't Believe the Truth |
Pop Rock
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Bruce Springsteen |
Devils & Dust |
Pop Rock,
Singer/Songwriter
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7 |
578 |
Bloc Party |
Silent Alarm |
Post-Punk Revival
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8 |
717 |
The National |
Alligator |
Post-Punk Revival
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31 |
2457 |
Franz Ferdinand |
You Could Have It So Much Better |
Post-Punk Revival
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35 |
2558 |
Editors |
The Back Room |
Post-Punk Revival
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Maxïmo Park |
A Certain Trigger |
Post-Punk Revival
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British Sea Power |
Open Season |
Post-Punk Revival
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The Rakes |
Capture/Release |
Post-Punk Revival
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12 |
1024 |
Sigur Rós |
Takk... |
Post-Rock
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Opeth |
Ghost Reveries |
Progressive Metal
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The Rolling Stones |
A Bigger Bang |
Rock
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Depeche Mode |
Playing the Angel |
Synthpop
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27 |
2216 |
Konono No. 1 |
Congotronics |
Tradi-Modern
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11 |
794 |
Gorillaz |
Demon Days |
Trip Hop
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Architecture in Helsinki |
In Case We Die |
Twee Pop
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Loney, Dear |
Loney, Noir |
Twee Pop
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Roots Manuva |
Awfully Deep |
UK Hip Hop
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