December 15, 2006

Best Music 2005 - Robert Knaack

01) Brakes – Give Blood [quirky, frivolous, and fun rock]

02) Sleater-Kinney – the Woods

03) Buck 65 – This Right Here Is [country indie rap is the best description I can come up with]

04) New Pornographers – Twin Cinema

05) M Ward – Transistor Radio

06) Soviettes – III [energetic, playful punk]

07) Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah – CYHASY

08) Russian Futurists – Our Thickness [one man indie-pop band]

09) Band of Bees – Free the Bees [new psychedelia – wonderful]

10) Rakes – Capture/Release [not to be confused with the Brakes – snotty British punk-rock ala the Clash]

11) Josh Rouse – Nashville [a great Americana follow-up to 2003's winning "1972"]

12) Supergrass – Road to Rouen [just when I had given up on them they make a great record]

13) Joseph Arthur – Our Shadows Will Remain [alt-pop songs that get into your brain]

14) Eels – Blinking Lights and Other Revelations [2 discs is too long, but incredible songs throughout]

15) Sons and Daughters – Repulsion Box [folk-rock songs that m-o-v-e]

16) MIA – Arular [dance music is usually not my thing, but something about this works for me]

17) Andrew Bird – Mysterious Production of Eggs [I hate to use the phrase 'adult alternative pop', but it seems to fit here. Beautiful songs]

18) Perceptionists – Black Dialogue [political rap that thumps]

19) Decemberists – Picaresque

20) White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan

Bands just missing the cut:

Of Montreal – Sunlandic Twins

Spoon – Gimme Friction

Brights Eyes – I'm Awake…

Mando Diao – Hurricane Bar

Antony and the Johnsons – I Am A Bird Now

Adrian Belew – Side One

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