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]

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1. Orthrelm – Ov [Ipecac]
   

   
    
   

   
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2. Sunn O))) – Black One [Southern Lord]
   

   
    
   

   
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3. Pelican – The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw [Hydra Head]
   

   
    
   

   
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4. Kinski – Alpine Static [Sub Pop]
   

   
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5. Akron/Family & Angels of Light – Akron/Family & Angels of Light [Young God]
   

6. Earth – Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method [Southern Lord]
7. Animal Collective – Feels [Fat Cat]
8. Red Sparowes – At the soundless Dawn [Neurot]
9. Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene [Arts & Crafts]
10. CocoRosie – Noah’s Ark [Touch & Go]
11. Sleater-Kinney – The Woods [Sub Pop]
12. Cage – Hell’s Winter [Def Jux]
13. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Worlds Apart [Interscope]
14. John Zorn – Masada Anniversary Edition Vol. 5: Masada Rock [Tzadik]
15. Boris – Akuma No Uta [Southern Lord]
16. Doomriders – Black Thunder [Deathwish]
17. Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno -Just Another Band… [Important]
18. Om – Variations on a Theme [Holy Mountain]
19. High On Fire – Blessed Black Wings [Relapse]
20. Big Business – Head For the Shallow [Hydra Head]
21. Cave In – Perfect Pitch Black [Hydra Head]
22. Black Mountain – Black Mountain [Jagjaguwar]
23. Jesu – Jesu [Hydra Head]
24. Devendra Banhart – Cripple Crow [XL]
25. Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Matt Sweeney – Superwolf [Drag City]
26. Sigur Ros – Takk [Geffen]
27. Torche – Torche [Robotic Empire]
28. Dead Meadow – Feathers [Matador]
29. Mogwai – Government Commissions [Matador]
30. Iron & Wine/Calexico – In the Reins [Overcoat]

• 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]

Antony and the Johnsons = most overrated record of the year.

Movies (I didn’t 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

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