we all know that 2004 is long over, we need to move on. anyway. best of 2005. So far these are the albums i have:

Bright Eyes - Wide Awake
Bright Eyes - Digital Ash
M83 - Before The Dawn
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Iron & Wine - Woman King [EP]
Fiery Furnaces - EP

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Some other great albums by some bands you should look into atleast are...

The new Judas Priest album
New Yngwie Malmsteen album

The are some others but I can't think of them now.

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They still are making albums? They haven't been relevant for over a decade.

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Perhaps that should be two.

So... there's still a new Beck album on the horizon. Still no details yet, but it should be good.

I'm looking forward to new records by The Doves, Ambulance LTD., The Shins, Son Volt (a new studio album and a best-of), Oasis, and New Order, all due in 2005. There's also supposed to be a Fountains of Wayne b-sides collection which I'm super excited about...they've got some amazing b-sides.

And coming soon (not a 2005 release but whatever!) is a US release of Aztec Camera's import only record Love as a two-fer with their excellent Stray on Wounded Bird. I'm psyched because I've been needing to get Love on CD for some time, if only for the excellent "Killermont Street" (recently covered by Fountains of Wayne!)


Ooh..I forgot the new Frames record. That's out in February, methinks.

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Tons of albums on the horizon. The new Spoon, the new Sigur Ros, the new Flaming Lips, the new Beck, the new Keith Fullerton Whitman, the new Low (The Great Destroyer), the new Trail of Dead in a few weeks, the new Lightning Bolt, the new Outkast...

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Hey i put together a top 10 list for the albums i am most anticipating that are scheduled for 2005 at the end of december on my website.

anyone who is interested can check the link

If i had to just pick one though I would probably go with the new Beck.

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I don't know this one...what's it on? I've got a FOW Xmas single ("The Man in the Santa Suit")...

I've heard:

LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Dalek - Absence
Hood - Outside Closer
m83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us

I'm looking forward to:

Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die
new Spoon album
new Lightning Bolt album
new Juan Maclean album
new Manitoba album
new British Sea Power album


Also, I've heard the new Boom Bip album, and it's nowhere near as good as Seed to Sun.

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Dont u mean the new Caribou album or whatever gawdawfull name he had to change to!


I remembered seeing someting like this


Lovely. U have heard the new Dalek album?I envy you.

But i will save my sheer delight until it formally comes out.

The soundtrack to my nightmares....once again!

anyone else heard the new Trail of Dead? its excellent.

I've heard an advance of the new Low and it's pretty darn good. And loud!

I'm psyched about the new British Sea Power.

I could care less about Bright Eyes. Something about that group just bugs me. I can't pin it down. The cultish devotion they engender may be part of it...

Whoa, I completely forgot about British Sea Power. When's it coming out?

Doves
Mars Volta
Underworld

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February, I've read. Before summer for sure...I think it's already in the can...

From the release dates I've found, it looks like February will be a good month:

2/1: Ed Harcourt (US release of 2004 UK record)

2/8: The Frames

2/22: Iron and Wine ep, Ben Lee, Josh Rouse


Also due in Feb are a live record from French pop band Phoenix and a new one by Clem Snide...

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Did u like there last record?If i am thinking of the same band which i think i am.I was kind of dissapointed?

I liked 'united'.
'alphabetical' was ho-hum.I think.U reminded me so i will have to put it on sometime this weekend!I guess its not good that i dont really recall much from it?

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Did u like there last record?If i am thinking of the same band which i think i am.I was kind of dissapointed?

I liked 'united'.
'alphabetical' was ho-hum.I think.U reminded me so i will have to put it on sometime this weekend!I guess its not good that i dont really recall much from it?

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I haven't heard United so I have no point of reference, but I liked Alphabetical as a nice, no-nonsense pop record. I put them in the same class as my fave French poppers, Tahiti 80. I've tried to get into Air, but I haven't loved the records. I did, however, really dig the live show circa 2001. Very Pink Floyd...bonus cool points for having the phenomenally talented Jason Falkner (ex-Jellyfish and Grays) in the band. My friends and I nerded out and waited in the lobby to talk, not to Air, but to Jason! He was pretty thrilled by that...

Ive slowed down my CD purchases quite a lot actually and Im not to informed on whats due out in the coming year. However, Im looking forwards to Xiu Xiu's next album.