What are the must have albums of 2005?

[clandestino]

and haven't heard all of it yet, but the clap your hands say yeah album sounds like being a corker.

ulu tickets onsale now. snap 'em up while you can.

oh, and i liked the teenage fanclub record too. but it's not the best record of the year. just one i like. i also like the kaiser chiefs album. so there.

for singles, '1 thing' by amerie walks it by a mile.

 

[innit]

Clor - 1st CD.


Personally I just can't get over how utterly brilliant it is. Wry, droll, acerbic, immensely clever yet also passionate and enthused. It's no point in having art-rock stuff if you're just being pretentious. This has got real arty passion - but also LOADS of irritatingly catchy proper pop tunes too. I fucking love it. (Probably not everybody's cuppa tea though, but I'm just saying what I like here... )


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One thing I really like about it is that it's very densely packed with ideas, but doesn't hang about, which increases the impact. 11 tracks in 44 minutes.

I've seen Clor twice. Are you jealous MG?

My favourite album of this year so far is the new electrelane one, although it is not safe for work unless you want to develop a reputation for listening to random plonks and clicks. I also like the King Creosote album which sonik recommended to me... the Earlies are the backing band and I think I like the arrangements better than I like his songwriting, but I also prefer the more structured approach to the Earlies album where all the songs meander on for what feels like about 8 minutes.

She said, meandering on for about 8 minutes

 

[stavros]

it's not out for another week but i'll say that sugababes' new one "taller in more ways" will be a definate must have of the year

I agree, looking forward to getting it. Also Girls Aloud should have their yearly masterpiece out before Christmas.

 

[twistedAM]

I agree, looking forward to getting it. Also Girls Aloud should have their yearly masterpiece out before Christmas.

listening to sugababes second time round right now; quite nice but then again everything dallas austin is involved with is usually worth a good listen

 

[D'wards]

Smog - A River Ain't Too Much to Love

This is the beautiful music.

 

[articul8]

Bright Eyes released TWO great albums in 2005:
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn. and
I'm Wide Awake its Morning

on a completely different tip High Contrast's album was

 

[Dr. Furface]

The Juan Maclean - Less Than Human. Great electro dancepop, on DFA.

Edan - Beauty and the Beat. Brilliant psychedelic hip hop - pisses on his earlier 2 albums.

Soil and Pimp Sessions - Pimp Master. Mental Jap jazz combo, very

Broadcast - Tender Buttons. More great retro-futurist pop, more electro than before.

Black Dice - Broken Ear Record. The title says it all - the strangest lp I've heard this year. It's on DFA but doesn't sound like what you'd expect from that label. It doesn't sound like anything you've ever heard before either, probably.

Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic. More like laptop jazz this time than folktronica from the geeky bedroom genius.

Also albums by-
LCD Soundsystem
The Go! Team
Caribou
The Coral

 

[milesy]

on a completely different tip High Contrast's album was

that album makes me wanna hump the sofa

 

[Tank Girl]

so that's why it's so soggy

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

was that this year?

'Thunder Lightning Strike' was released in September 2004. Otherwise it would have been on my list, no worries.

 

[Balbi]

Clor - 1st CD.


Personally I just can't get over how utterly brilliant it is. Wry, droll, acerbic, immensely clever yet also passionate and enthused. It's no point in having art-rock stuff if you're just being pretentious. This has got real arty passion - but also LOADS of irritatingly catchy proper pop tunes too. I fucking love it. (Probably not everybody's cuppa tea though, but I'm just saying what I like here... )

Downloaded some on the recommendation May be buying this soon.

 

[Dr. Furface]

'Thunder Lightning Strike' was released in September 2004. Otherwise it would have been on my list, no worries.

Didn't realise that - the Arcade Fire one was also released last year though.

 

[neilh]

Edan - Beauty and the Beat. Brilliant psychedelic hip hop - pisses on his earlier 2 albums.

yeah, i'll second that; well, the first bit, not the second bit, as i love his other stuff just as much.

saw him earlier this year with insight, prob the best gig ive ever been to.

 

[stavros]

quite nice but then again everything dallas austin is involved with is usually worth a good listen

Has he done the whole album? If so I have to get that and soon (along with a plethora of others like SFA, Eels and Juliet). They might make some kind of headway in the States with him behind them.

Other records which I've heard might come out are Alesha Dixon's (the MC from Mis-Teeq) and JC Chasez's (the great one from *NSync). We're about due for another Basement Jaxx studio album too, 2 years on from the awesome "Kish Kash", although the greatest hits did come out earlier in the year.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Didn't realise that - the Arcade Fire one was also released last year though.

I thought it was out in about February or March, wasn't it?

*Adjusts anorak hood*

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

i also like the kaiser chiefs album. so there.

Seconded - a big, colourful guitar pop jambouree and much better than anyone round here would have you believe.

A convenient exposer of rock snobs.

 

[twistedAM]

I thought it was out in about February or March, wasn't it?

*Adjusts anorak hood*

It was out in the US on Merge last year and then got licenced to Rough Trade for release in the UK in 2005.

We'll be having a similar anorak argument in 2006 as the Spinto Band album is already out in the US on Bar-None and no one has picked it up for here....yet.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Has he done the whole album?

If 'Push The Button' is anything to go by, I hope so. An effortlessly brilliant pop record.

I still think 'Overload' was the greatest 'babes moment and felt that Siobhan Donaghy was a far greater asset to the group than Heidi Range, but I can't help that one in every three or so records is a shining moment in music. 'Freak Like Me' and 'Round Round' were excellent too.

 

[John Quays]

Albums for the doomheads -

Out now: Garden of Unearthly Delights by Cathedral

the unimaginatively titled Revelations by Lazarus Blackstar (with Paul Catten shredding the vocals to shit)

I know you're rushing out right now, u75 dudes...

 

[Dr. Furface]

I thought it was out in about February or March, wasn't it?

*Adjusts anorak hood*

I remember listening to it about a year ago in the Rough Trade shop at Talbot Road.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

I remember listening to it about a year ago in the Rough Trade shop at Talbot Road.

There was a mini-album out in 2003 or 2004...it wouldn't be that would it? Failing that, I concede that 'Funeral' may have been re-released this year a la Hard-Fi's debut...

 

[twistedAM]

There was a mini-album out in 2003 or 2004...it wouldn't be that would it? Failing that, I concede that 'Funeral' may have been re-released this year a la Hard-Fi's debut...

at the risk of being repetitive...it was out last year in north America on Merge and therefore some import copies would have found their way over here
happens quite a bit that the UK is last tolicenece cool bands; Architecture in helsinki's two albums were available on import from Bar-None aqnd the second one only fgot its UK release a month ago on Moshi Moshi

so i predict the album of 2006 to be The Spinto band which is already out in the US

 

[The Groke]

Seconded - a big, colourful guitar pop jambouree and much better than anyone round here would have you believe.

A convenient exposer of rock snobs.

thirded.....


*Runs aways before he gets lynched*

 

[belboid]

well, I've jkust gone out and bought the Clor on the various recomendations here - sounds okay so far, if a tad too Gary Numanish in places.

 

[twistedAM]

well, I've jkust gone out and bought the Clor on the various recomendations here - sounds okay so far, if a tad too Gary Numanish in places.

it starts off with the singles and tracks from the first EP but then it gets weirder and better...grows after a few listens. i had all the demo tracks ages ago and must admit i was a bit disappointed with it at first but then suddenly it all went BOOM in my head and its great...but the next one will be even better

 

[Biffo]

Acoustic Ladyland - Last Chance Disco

 

[Pigeon]

yeah, i'll second that; .

I'm a third it.

 

[dynamicbaddog]

This

is the best album I've heard this year, downloaded it yesturday

 

[belboid]

me like this thread....

downloaded the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, & the Sufjam Stevens as well, and they are both fucking excellant.

Bumped into the last Bob Mould (Body of Song) too...but haven't had time to listen to it yet.

 

[perplexis]

Boards of Canada's new album (The Campfire Headphase) is the best new caning it album I've heard this year. It's not out yet, but I got a copy and woo-hoo does it sound beautiful and deep when you're monged. Of course, like all their stuff, it sounds completely incomprehensible when I try to listen to it at work (where I am most definitely sober)

I'll third Ventian Snares' Rossz Cillag... like Ligeti got hold of too many machines (probably uses Ligeti samples, but I'm not cultured enough to recognise)

Kathryn Williams: Over Fly Over. I like her, so I'm biased, but for a bit of whimsical heart-rending songwriting I think she ruleth.

Ellen Allien: Thrills. Electronica so cool it almost hurts, great noises, pacey but not frenzied, little bit of vocals to keep it interesting... kind of like what Tiefschwarz could have been if they hadn't gone all collaborationy and slightly pants with Eat Books.

I guess they're not "Must Haves" for everyone, but they're good.