No love for Andrew Bird? Hmmm?

Safe to say Bird's probably in a lot of top 3-5s. It's the Shins/Iron-and-Wine syndrome.

What, he'll change your life?

changed epa's. Fo sho.

Guess it's kind of silly for me to pick one since I've only heard a handful of new albums so far, but silly I am....I'll go with Andrew Bird. Can't get rid of that nervous tic motion of my head to the left. Andrew Bird is my savior from the mundane. What a gem of a CD that I just can't get enough of lately. Every listen is like a brand new experience. The lyrics are fun, but at the same time insightful. Clever, but not to the point of being silly. Sophisticated music, but not at the listener's expense. The orchestrated side of the Beatles as interpreted by some alt-country-cosmopolitan leaning Radiohead-like band playing with a eclectic guest violinist. Or something silly like that....

Though the words we speak are banal
Not one of them's a lie
Not one of them's a lie
You're what happens when two substances collide
And by all accounts you really should've died...


But this is all I've got so far and they're all pretty good although I've only just barely listened to Bloc Party and FF... and a few songs from that Kills album are stuck in my head right now so maybe it's my favorite... no, I'll stick with Bird for now.
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
The Kills - No Wow
Black Mountain
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration
The Fiery Furnaces - EP

Are we just counting albums that have officially been released as of 3/22? Seeing that the Mountain Goats have been mentioned twice (and that album comes out 4/26), I'm going to assume that we're just counting whatever we've heard.

In that case, my nomination:

Magnolia Electric Co. - What Comes After the Blues
(got my copy 2 weeks ahead of the release date )

But that's just based on one listen. I haven't really been blown away by anything yet, but The Decemberists, Bonnie Prince Billy/ Matt Sweeney, and M.I.A. things are also really good. M. Ward is kinda disappointing, and the new Six Organs and Mike Ladd albums seem a little slight to me. I'm still digesting Antony and the Johnsons.

I mean, I think it's good. It's a definite improvement on the live record, but it is (ironically) no Magnolia Electric Co., or Pyramid Electric Co. for that matter. The instrumentation and juggled vocals are this album's selling point, I think, but I've lost a lot of love for Molina with this happy bar blues bit. Lots of awkward lyrics on this bitch, too.

Blackfield - self titled
Sage Francis - A Healthy Dirtrust
Sinai Beach - Immersed

i thought we were just doing the picks in the poll.

in that case, here's my top 5 for 2005 so far:

01 bloc party - silent alarm
02 shining - in the kingdom of kitsch you will be a monster
03 jaga jazzist - what we must
04 doves - some cities
05 13 & god - the notwist & themselves

Bort....Did you ever know that you're my hero?

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http://www.avalancheinc.co.uk/jesu.html

styles: metal, doom, post rock, shoegazer
others: Pelican, Isis, Hum, Centaur, Godflesh (& my blood valentine)

-tinymixtapes

I've enjoyed that Iron & Wine EP the most...with Crooked Fingers close behind

m83- Before the Dawn Heals Us
Damien Rice- O
Handsome Boy Modeling School- White People
Beck- Sea Change
At the Drive In- Relationship of Command
Now it's Overhead

i know, i know... but they're all so good!!!

Im gonna go with this too.

I like Bloc Party, QOTSA, LCD Soundsystem, Roots Manuva and Doves too, and I really really need to hear Dalek.

wtf?

damien rice is 2003. handsome boy is 2004. beck is 2002. at the drive-in is what, 2000? and now it's overhead is 2003 also i think.

so you have one applicable.

Well, Relationship of Command was reissued this year right?

Also, the one 2005 release (m83) is really mediocre.

no idea. and i'd say the m83 record is still in my top 10. it's just not Dead Cities, which is top 5 of the decade so far.

Also, splates. I think my music taste is most similar to yours on this board. But I haven't decided.

I've agreed with you before on this, and ill do it again. That's probably why Before The Dawn Heals Us is so disappointing.



Yeah we both have terrible taste. I think that's probably because we're about the same age.

it's kind of blusey punk, like a drunk pj harvey (although that comparisson seems to lazy that i'm hesitate to make it).

you mean like a pj harvey

i dunno, sounds drunk-er. i think that, for lack of anything better to do, i'm going to go see them on saturday so i'll be able to more accurately judge the drunkeness in those moments before i pass them. of couse, there's always the chance that they're more artsy than fartsy. we'll see.

It's more of a listing for what I"M into the first quarter so far... i do this a lot actually... it's pretty annoying. Whatever...

...and Teen Angst is a great song period.

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Wow, I did not expect to see that name pop up on Obner. Porcupine Tree fan? (Oh, and this is actually a 2004 release. But maybe it was released in the US in 2005? I have the import because, at the time, there were no plans to release it in the US anytime soon.)