You could have it so much better.....with the ILM albums of 2005

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It's a comeback only in the sense that few would have expected them to re-peak twenty-five years into their turbulent career. The album's surprises include tracks such as "I Want It All" and "Nothing's Impossible", both of which were penned by new DM songwriter Dave Gahan and brooded like the "Black Celebration" sequel that was never recorded.

Barry Bruner

other ilxors said

Gore's gone back to his Construction Time Again-era of melody writing with a dash of Ultra layered on top. The music itself is a smooth, danceable groove where the lower register synths burble along, the higher register synths ring out like bells (strong pizzicato atack followed by rounded delay) and the mid-range synths fill in all the gaps in a wash of awesomeness. For a track that's built on loungey components, it's surprisingly forthright and driving in execution. There are echoes of several past songs in the songwriting style (particularly "World In My Eyes"/"Enjoy The Silence" and "It's No Good") but it's definitely got its own identity; it certainly isn't as much of a departure from the DM sonic stereotype as "Dream On" was but it also isn't as obvious as their Some Great Reward singles.
I completely love it.

Dan Perry.

HOLY FUCK.
Their best album since "Violator". Maybe their best album except for "Violator".

Here is an out of left field comparison: Orbital's "Blue Album" gathered together a bunch of styles they'd used over their career and crammed them all into one album. "One Perfect Sunrise" was supposed to be "Impact", but obviously it wasn't nearly as good. The whole album was like that.
But on "Playing the Angel", everything sounds better than the original. "Construction Time Again"-era ballads weren't as good as "Damaged People". "Fly On the Windscreen" isn't as good as "Nothing's Impossible". Screw "Song of Faith and Devotion" -- you haven't heard Depeche Mode do gospel until you've heard them do it over Kraftwerk's "Numbers" ("John the Revelator"). What a masterpiece.

MindInRewind October 12th, 2005 6:38 AM.

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ILM's first official cheereleader. Or is it the other way around? - The Good Dr. Bill

Other ILXors Say:

"there isn't a bad track on it (although the 7 minute-long 'come together' is like a generic early 90's rave pop anthem from the title down) i managed to actually *dance at a party* to chewing gum on sunday!

gonna be mega." -piecesboy

"I love it when ILM gets all excited and behind something." -Alba

"I am incredibly impressed by the album as a whole. I need to spend more time with it, but my gut feeling is that this will be one of my top favorite albums for the year." -Matthew Perpetua

"I can't quite shake the impression that this is sort of the best album ever made, it feels like it is totally completely Up There with all my very very very favouritest records of all time and I can find absolutely nothing about it that is less than superbly perfect really. I do hope I maintain this level of enthusiasm, it is a tremendously excellent thing to have happened." -Alex in Doncaster

Despite my initial distaste, I've grown to like that dumbass feather doll on the cover.

xpost

...by re-writing "My Sharona."

Like that was necessary.

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This record suffered the same fate as the LCD Soundsystem one - it appears to be an attempt at the ebb and flow of an "album" in the old style, when many seemed like they'd be perfectly happy with a compilation of bangin' 12" singles. (You could concede their point when both singles came with excellent remixes.) But if you're patient with the more subdued second half, it reveals a pretty strain of melancholy. The dancefloors should be happy with the throbbing machine funk tracks of the first half of the record - especially "Give Me Every Little Thing", one of THE great P-Funk tributes.

Hayden Nicholls

other ilxors said

i didn't really think much of this project when the DFA were getting rolling but now i'm coming around. this album really does sound like it's going to be great. i think "i, robot" was the track that really made me come around.
the last three tracks sound particularly awesome. and the texts that accompany the tracks on that radio thingy are raw and awesome in a denis johnson sort of way.
vahid April 29th, 2005 5:00 AM

i am having an interesting reaction this record. on the one hand, i am happy with the review i gave it; when it's playing i think "wow, this is a pretty good record." but i NEVER FEEL LIKE PLAYING IT. i have probably listened to it four times since i got it. i just see it sitting there, know what it sounds like (good), and still feel all "ehh." which is odd because when i first heard them i listened to the singles over and over! i think spencer may be the closest to being otm of anyone. if he was gonna do a Dance Album, i wish he had actually thrown a couple songs in there, or sequenced it thematically, ala discovery. the lack of the old singles is baffling.
strng hlkngtn July 26th, 2005 1:49 PM.

I really think it's the worst electronic album I've heard in the past year or so. Not saying it's the worst, just the worst *I've* heard. The "fucking round with fruity loops" thing is so true. There's nothing clever with using early 90s pre-sets. There's no romance, funk or beauty in this turgid mess.
paulhw August 5th, 2005 9:53 PM.

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this.
album.
is.
so.
fucking.
amazing.
Nic de Teardrop January 24th, 2005 2:31 PM.

I just find it hard to believe that DP are happy with this release and wouldn't be surprised if the rumours about contractual obligation were true. How can the same band who did something as gorgeous and timely as Digital Love be content with something like Brainwasher?
It's not a truly terrible album but I can pretty much tell on first listen that like Talkie Walkie it won't have the staying power of Discovery or 10,000Hz the Legend.
Dog latinMarch 14th, 2005 7:24 PM.

What unites the first three tracks is that they each pour all their energy into a single, intensely catchy hook which is then repeated ad infinitum, but the tracks themselves aren't particularly dancefloor bombs, they never take off in the manner which we're accustomed to with French House - if anything, they feel like nothing but a looped breakdown rather than an absence of breakdowns. Were it a case of the latter these tracks might be closer to "So Much Love To Give" or "Call On Me" or a Crydamoure production.

I think this is deliberate rather than lazy (though I can't guess at the motive) - there's a moment in most of the tracks here where the duo will introduce a single element - a snare, a synth variation etc. - which threatens to send the whole thing over the top, and then they pull it back again. It feels like a rather restrained album to me, in the same way that Discovery felt restrained in places but without the pop-song structure that would explain/complement/contextualise it.
I think "Steam Machine" may be my favourite track, though at the moment it's all up for grabs. "The Prime Time Of Your Life" is the track that suffers most for its brevity I reckon - it should be twice as long!
Tim Finney March 20th, 2005 11:32 PM.

Discovery:
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Human After All:
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disco violence October 29th, 2005 6:26 AM.

actually, i think "DARE" did that to me with the Gorillaz album, although in a slightly different manner...

i still go back and forth about the juan record, but at the end i really really like it.

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I guess Wide Awake will probably be the less popular one here b/c it's "alt-country" and all that, but at least he really cuts loose on some of the songs rather than try to be all dark and moody. "Another Travelin' Song" is a straight Dylan rip-off that's still pretty exhilirating, and "Road to Joy" is nice and screamy. Still neither one of 'em's as good as Lifted...

Josh Love January 24th, 2005 2:24 AM.

Wide Awake is a perfectly lovely album that is chock full of good stuff. There really isn't a boring track on it, and some of the stuff is flat-out gorgeous. Nothing on it is innovative, or mind-bending, or anything like that, but it is a fully realized bunch of songs by a consistently interesting artist (with an annoying voice, just like you-know-who).

Vornado May 29th, 2005 5:45 PM.

me too!

(carry on)

I like Human After All, too.

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This record is celebratory as fuck! "My Morning Jacket reins it in and
sounds more expansive than ever" or something. But honestly, the reason
why this is my favorite record of the entire year is that each and every
fucking song is hovering around explosive or just under it. Pound for
pound, I didn't hear better songwriting anywhere (and I can hear
pounds!!!). And I most certainly didn't hear anyone else having this
much fun! "A good showerhead and my right hand are the two best lovers
that I ever had..." As soon as you wash your hands, I will kiss you, Jim
James!

David Maher

Repeated listens reveal a spiritual epic. Initial tourist fascination
with the ancient city of Damascus interrupted by a chance encounter
with the charismatic Z. Seventeen months of disappointment roaming the
Kavir salt desert leaves My Morning Jacket joyfully free of the
dualistic fixations of their early work. What a wonderful man indeed!
Joe Schoech

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This record is celebratory as fuck! "My Morning Jacket reins it in and
sounds more expansive than ever" or something. But honestly, the reason
why this is my favorite record of the entire year is that each and every
fucking song is hovering around explosive or just under it. Pound for
pound, I didn't hear better songwriting anywhere (and I can hear
pounds!!!). And I most certainly didn't hear anyone else having this
much fun! "A good showerhead and my right hand are the two best lovers
that I ever had..." As soon as you wash your hands, I will kiss you, Jim
James!

David Maher

Repeated listens reveal a spiritual epic. Initial tourist fascination
with the ancient city of Damascus interrupted by a chance encounter
with the charismatic Z. Seventeen months of disappointment roaming the
Kavir salt desert leaves My Morning Jacket joyfully free of the
dualistic fixations of their early work. What a wonderful man indeed!
Joe Schoech

I can't believe I like a band called 'My Morning Jacket.'--deej.., December 26th, 2005

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this album is fantastic! i was surprised at how strong it all is. love the guy's voice. comparing this to beck is bizarre, i can't even faintly see how the comparison fits.
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This is smooth-surfaced, disco-ball-gleaming, flawless body music, so much so that at times it can be painful to listen to.  It's like watching a bunch of episodes of Arrested Development in a row; it's too much of a good thing.  And yes, they did use WordArt for the cover.  But it's still really, really good. 
Sovietpanda

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Alan Braxe and Fred Falke make great 'concept' House tunes, mixing 70s and 80s Disco sounds with fresh sounding synths and rough-and-ready production. I obviously love 'Upper Cuts' but the tracks only work in their 12" versions - the edits on 'Upper Cuts' do not do the tracks much justice and the edits are rather rusty. Being on the most part instrumental, these tracks belong on their concept 12" releases - perfectfor mixing with accapellas and Disco House tunes. 'Upper Cuts' serves only as a neat way of encapsulating the Braxe sound as a whole, but in compilation form the tunes do sound rather samey, especially in this unmixed and edited form.
Tommy Oke December 21st, 2005 12:58 PM.

i pick the upper cuts because it's one of my favorites from this year, easily one of my most-played of the year. i also think it really works as an album. i can't argue with french touch stadium house that is so well-executed (fake g-funk duly noted and excepted from this argument)...aside from music sounds better with you and maybe rubicon, it is very conceptual and imaginary which i also love. this album and songs like amerie's "one thing" are what got me through the year when the bulk of the other music i listened to, eulogized and loved was really melancholy underneath the sparkling exteriors.
tricky December 21st, 2005 9:33 PM.

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True story: while at a music festival on a farm in the middle of nowhere a few weeks back, the house DJ dropped the lead track from Congotronics. I scanned my eyes across the crowd, but there wasn't even a flicker of recognition - I had bought the one copy I'd seen, in Melbourne's smallest record store. Slowly but surely, after a while you could see people moving in time to it - a lot of unsure swaying and bopping to the alien soundtrack, some more enthusiastic dancing to the fuzzy groove. The moral of this story is, if you can get a bunch of indie rock fans in a paddock moving, you're doing something right. Hayden Nicholls
 
Konono No.1: Congotronics (Crammed) We've read about this: songs from
salvage, via homemade percussion and sound system, and lives salvaged, so far, via well deserved publicity, from the kind of boondocks that makes The Hold Steady's service roads seem like Beverly Hills. Metallic, yet fluid (those amplified thumb pianos, like a light show on an oscilloscope). But I never know, from one
listening to the next, whether monotony  or melodic outbursts will win more of my august attention, and this seems to be what keeps me listening so much (so far, anyway).
Don Tarboe

A percussion-driven street party that sounds like Vooredoms with thumb piano. O.Nate

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He's gotten older and wiser but hasn't forgotten how to take chances.
O Nate.

My early verdict on Face The Truth is that it is very good, but maybe not as much as the last two Malkmus records. I like it more than Terror Twilight, but not nearly as much as any of the Pavement records before that. I'm very impressed by "Kindling For The Master" and "Pencil Rot" - they touch on some newish territory for him (actually, they both kinda sound like the Fiery Furnaces), and feature some nice sounds and twists. "Freeze The Saints" is my least favorite - it's nice, but it screams "this is a song from my solo album" in way other post-Pavement Malkmus songs have not. Most of the songs aren't very new to me, so I'm just adjusting to the revised studio versions. "Malediction" is clearly my favorite on this record, even though I think I might prefer the live acoustic version that I have from the Buenos Aires show from last year.

Matthew C Perpetua

Just listened to the album. I really liked his last one, but this one does not seem nearly rural prog enough! I WISH there was a song called "Horslip" on it (since I just bought a Horselips best-of this weekend, and it was great!), but on my copy there sure isn't one.
xhuxk March 24th, 2005 12:43 AM.

Anyway, FtT is rocking in my bedroom constantly. I'm moving down the tracklist: at first I was all about the opening Pencil Rot It Kills I've Hardly Been combo. Now the middle section is really satisfying something. I slighted Freeze the Saints for being too Pavementy but it's Malkmus' prettiest tune since Major Leagues (though I never cared for the first album's ballads like a lot of people). Loud Cloud Crowd might be my favorite on the whole album. I'm pretty meh on Kindling for the Master, Post Paint Boy, and Malediction. My favorite SM album.
mitch dub March 31st, 2005 4:45 PM.

Also, that Fran album is so fuckin' good. My indie side (and hatred of cookie cutter crap) won't let me fully appreciate most major bands, but I have to admit, Franz have finally won me over. Just try "Walk Away", "The Fallen", "Fade Together", "Eleanor Put Your Boots On", "Well That Was Easy", etc. Solid songs, man, I'm tellin' you.

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"To turn myself inside out when I make music is one of my favourite hobbies," offered Bpitch Control matriarch Ellen Allien as explanation for her second album's sound, a sound which is remorseless in turning the listener inside out as well. Thrills is rife with contradictions, illogical foundations shifting around to make perfect sense: a cold, monolithic post-industrial grind transmitted through warm, bubbling ARP synths, an album all about expressing deeply internalised sonic textures on a packed dancefloor or, better yet, on public transport systems. Less of an overt homage to the city than Allien's first album, Berlinette, her fascination with urban living remains as potent a theme in her work as she grapples with its psychogeography, binaries first struggling against each other and then merging as Allien brings them to heel via the messed-up sounds coursing through her body.
 
Key tracks: 'Come',  'Washing Machine Is Speaking', 'Down'
The Lex

other ilxors said

i find this album to be very easy to engage with, it is almost like a blank slate. i also find it to be less cold than either of her previous albums. that's probably the arp talking. the tracks sound like they are 120bpm, but they all hover around 128. i wish the tracks were slower actually, but then it might not sound so techno. i think it has a very late night humid vibe to it.
tricky July 11th, 2005 10:02 PM.

'Thrills'. Wow, it's one hell of a left turn of a record!

I'm gobsmacked at the almost reckless bravery of it. I mean, she's virtually thrown away with her 'typical' sound set (Stadtkind/Berlinette/Remix Collection) here and doesn't seem bothered about the potential to fail without it this time round. She got new tools and wants to play! :-P

On a slightly negative note, I think 'Magma' is my least favourite track here so far, feels slightly ugly and it is just me who hates hearing the last track on a record as the single? So glad I got to hear the whole thing early. But then I really wasn't expecting perfection this time out, I know how these things can go .

But there are many, many things I like about it so far too. Some of this sounds hilariously out-of-control, like Ellen is barely keeping that ARP from bleeping and bouncing out of the studio and into the streets under it's own unstoppable wayward energy.

Her beautiful, subtle yet strong, enigmatic melodies are still here even in all this flowing chaos. I'm not sure how I feel about the comparative lack of vocals so far either, they are there, but often much more direct when used. It still sounds more of a techno thing to me than electro-house, although 'Naked Rain' is kinda deep-house in a way. And 'Down' yeah, is more electro-y. It's just that it's as a whole so much less electro than her previous stuff, and so much weirder, frankly.

If I had to decribe it in less words than I've used so far I'd say: Vaguely Germanic beats meets Giorgio Moroder, LFO & the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

I'm still leaning towards fucking awesome btw, I might have lost the main thrust of my point in all this chatter ;-) There's stuff going on in this record that absolutely kills.I think I'm going to go listen some more now :-)
fandango April 5th, 2005 1:12 AM.

me! me! although it's not so much isolée's textures as the sheer intricate detail of his music which appeals to me (most often in bed, morning after).

boards of canada are complete crap and always have been.

you are an idiot.

Martian, four tet haven't lost their way although they may have lost YOUR way. just because they have gone somewhere that doesn't particularly interest you doesn't mean they have gone crap.

579 Pure Reason Revolution - Cautionary Tales for the Brave 1 1 0
578 Adult - Gimme Trouble 1 1 0
577 Andrew Phillip Tipton - Grandma Lola Loves You 1 1 0
576 Anneli Drecker - Frolic 1 1 0
575 Birthday Suits - Cherry Blue 1 1 0
574 Coleen - Golden Morning Breaks 1 1 0
573 Dandy Jack - Los Siete Cstigos 1 1 0
572 Ewan Pearson - SciFiHiFi 1 1 0
571 Frank Black - Honeycomb 1 1 0
570 George - A Week of Kindness 1 1 0
569 Karaoke Tundra - Gastarbeiter 1 1 0
568 Marc Leclair - Musique pour 3 femmes enceintes 1 1 0
567 Merzbow - Sphere 1 1 0
566 Mice Parade - Bem-Vinda Vontade 1 1 0
565 Mogwai - Government Commissions 1 1 0
564 The Music Lovers - The Words we say before we sleep 1 1 0
563 Maria Rita - Segundo 2 1 0
562 65 Days of Static - One for all time 2 1 0
561 Adam Evil & The Outside Royalty - S/T 2 1 0
560 Andrew Chalk - The River That Flows Into The Sands 2 1 0
559 Bobby Bare - The Moon was blue 2 1 0
558 Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra - Not in our name 2 1 0
557 Dead 60's - Dead 60's 2 1 0
556 Ennio Morricone - Crime and Disonnance 2 1 0
555 Glimmers - DJ Kicks 2 1 0
554 Go Betweens - Oceans Apart 2 1 0
553 Gustav - Rettet Die Wale 2 1 0
552 John Cale - Black Acetate 2 1 0
551 Les George Leningrad - Sur la Trace De Black Eskimo 2 1 0
550 Mylo - Destry Rock and Roll 2 1 0
549 Nudge - Cached 2 1 0
548 Principles of Geometry - S/T 2 1 0
547 Red Sparrows - At the soundless dawn 2 1 0
546 Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely done 2 1 0
545 Wooden Wand Harem of the Sundrum & the Witness Figg 2 1 0
544 Aarktica - Bleeding Light 3 1 0
543 Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno - IAO Chant from the Cosmic Inferno 3 1 0
542 Ark - Caliente 3 1 0
541 Edan - Beauty and the Beat 3 2 0
540 Fall - Hex Enduction hour reissue 3 1 0
539 Hal - Hal 3 1 0
538 Kaiser Chiefs - Employment 3 1 0
537 Kate and Anna McGarrigle - The McGarrigle Christmas Hour 3 1 0
536 Love as Laughter - Laughter's Fifth 3 1 0
535 Mindflayer - Die and mold 3 1 0
534 Morgenstern and Lippok - Tesri 3 1 0
533 Mouthus - Slow Globes 3 1 0
532 Piana - Ephemeral 3 1 0
531 Six by Seven - Left Luggage at the Peveril Hotel 3 1 0
530 Solvent - Apples and Synthesisers 3 1 0
529 Various - Radio Phnom Penh 3 1 0
528 Vladislav Delay - The Four Quarters 3 1 0
527 4G - Cloud 4 1 0
526 Acid Mothers Temple - IAO CHANT 4 1 0
525 African Head Charge - Vision of a psychedelic Africa 4 1 0
524 Amy Rigby - A little fugitive 4 1 0
523 Asa Chang and Jun Ray - Minna no junrei 4 1 0
522 Babyshambles - Down in Albion 4 1 0
521 Common - Be 4 1 0
520 Diplo - Fabric Live 24 4 2 0
519 Freakwater - Thinking of you 4 1 0
518 Jason Anderson - The Wreath 4 1 0
517 Jimmy Chamberlin - Life begins again 4 1 0
516 Kano - Home Sweet Home 4 2 0
515 Major Swellings - Major Swellings 4 1 0
514 Mountain Eerie - Singers 4 1 0
513 R Kelly - Trapped in the closet 4 1 0
512 Saul Williams - Saul Williams 4 1 0
511 Snowblood - Being and becoming 4 1 0
510 Son Volt - Okemah and the melody of riot 4 1 0
509 Talking Heads - Talking Heads Brick 4 1 0
508 The Tears - Here come the Tears 4 1 0
507 Young Tradition - A Northern Drive 4 1 0
506 50 Foot Wave - EP 5 1 0
505 Alex Smoke - Incommunicado 5 1 0
504 Autolux - Future Perfect 5 1 0
503 Blackalicious - The Craft 5 1 0
502 Cee - revolved 5 1 0
501 DJ Naughty - One night in Berlin 5 1 0
500 Enslaved - Isa 5 1 0
499 Howling Hex - You can't beat tomorrow 5 1 0
498 Hund am Strand - Adieu Sweet Bahnhof 5 1 0
497 John Legend - Get lifted 5 1 0
496 Jose Gonzalez - Veneer 5 1 0
495 Kathleen Edwards - Back to me 5 1 0
494 Lemon Jelly - 64-95 5 1 0
493 Oasis - Don't believe the truth 5 1 0
492 Prurient - Black 5 1 0
491 Ruff Sqwad - Gun's N Roses Vol 1 5 1 0
490 Steve Reich - You Are (Variations) 5 1 0
489 Teenage Fanclub - Man Made 5 1 0
488 Teotihuacán tape 5 1 0
487 UpCDownCLeftCRightCABC+Start - And The Battle Is Won 5 1 0
486 Vacaciones - Emmaboda 5 1 0
485 Wayne Shorter Quartet - Beyond the Sound Barrier 5 1 0
484 Whomadewho - Whomadewho 5 1 0
483 Wilderness - Wilderness 5 1 0
482 Anthony Hamilton - Ain't nobody worrying 6 1 0
481 Armand Van Helden - Nympho 6 1 0
480 Brendan Benson - Alternative to love 6 1 0
479 Circle - Guillotine 6 1 0
478 Emmanuel Jal & Abdel Gadir Salim - Ceasefire 6 2 0
477 Frames - Burn the maps 6 1 0
476 Huggabroomstik - Sloppy Kisses and Serious Guitars 6 1 0
475 James Blood Ulmer - Birthright 6 1 0
474 Korekyojinn - Isotope 6 1 0
473 OST - 2046 6 1 0
472 Proclaimers - Restless soul 6 1 0
471 Pussycat Dolls - PCD 6 1 0
470 Richard Youngs - Naïve Shaman 6 1 0
469 Rosebuds - Birds make good neighbours 6 1 0
468 Salif Keita - M'bemba 6 1 0
467 Strokes - First Impressions of Earth 6 1 0
466 Tunng - Mother's, daughters and other songs 6 2 0
465 Various - World Psychedelic Classics : Love's a real thing 6 1 0
464 Wives - Erect the youth problem 6 1 0
463 Love is All - Nine times that same song 7 1 0
462 Acoustic Ladyland - Last Chance Disco 7 1 0
461 Blind Arvella Gray - The Singing Drifter 7 1 0
460 Blood On the Wall - Awesomer 7 1 0
459 Boy Least Likely To - Best Party Ever 7 1 0
458 Brian Eno - Another day on Earth 7 1 0
457 Doc Brown - The Document 7 1 0
456 Eric Malmberg - Den Gatfulla Manniskan 7 1 0
455 Great Lake Swimmers - Bodies and minds 7 2 0
454 Hum of the Druid - Societal 7 1 0
453 Ikue Mori - Myrninerest 7 1 0
452 Imogen Heap - Speak for yourself 7 1 0
451 Jack Rose - Kensington Blues 7 1 0
450 Joy Zipper - The heart set light 7 1 0
449 Las Escarlatinas - A todo color 7 1 0
448 Louis XIV - The best little secrets are kept 7 1 0
447 Matt Pond PA - Several arrows later 7 1 0
446 Metalux - Victim of space 7 1 0
445 Miranda Lambert - Kerosene 7 2 0
444 Nachlader - Bock auf Aforismen 7 1 0
443 Neil Diamond - 12 Songs 7 1 0
442 Sa-Ra Creative Patterns - Dark Matter And Pornography Mixtape 7 1 0
441 Sinead O'Connor - Throw down your arms 7 1 0
440 Tangiers - The Family Myth 7 1 0
439 Thunderbirds are Now! - Justamustache 7 2 0
438 Torche - Torche 7 1 0
437 Various - Childish music 7 1 0
436 Alisdair Roberts - No earthly man 8 1 0
435 Aqueduct - I Sold gold 8 1 0
434 Back Door Men - Sodra Esplanaden 3 8 1 0
433 Belle and Sebastian - Push the Barman to Open Old Wounds 8 1 0
432 Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman 8 1 0
431 Charlie Parr - Rooster 8 1 0
430 Dungen - Ta Det Lungt 8 1 0
429 Endless Boogie - White 8 1 0
428 Great Lake Swimmers - Great Lake Swimmers 8 1 0
427 Jack and Jeffrey Lewis - City and Eastern Songs 8 1 0
426 Jackie O Motherfucker - Flags of the Sacred Harp 8 1 0
425 Legends - Public Radio 8 1 0
424 Lindsey Lohan - A little more personal 8 1 0
423 Mary Timony - Ex-hex 8 1 0
422 Morrissey - Live at Earls' Court 8 1 0
421 Pendulum - Hold your colour 8 1 0
420 Pet Shop Boys - Back to Mine 8 1 0
419 Princess Superstar - My Machine 8 1 0
418 Son of a Plumber - Son of a Plumber 8 1 0
417 Susumo Yokota - Symbol 8 1 0
416 Wighnomy Bros - Remikks Potpourri 8 1 0
415 50 Foot Wave - Golden Ocean 9 1 0
414 Brooke Valentine - Chain Letter 9 1 0
413 Cam'ron - Purple haze 9 1 0
412 Cobra Verde - Copycat killers 9 1 0
411 Derek Bailey/Amy Denio/Dennis Palmer - The Gospel Record 9 1 0
410 Es - Sateenkaarisuudelma 9 1 0
409 Greg Davis + Sebastian Roux - Paquette Surprise 9 1 0
408 Josh Rouse - Nashville 9 1 0
407 Lali Puna - I thought I was over that 9 1 0
406 Laura Cantrell - Humming by the flowered vine 9 1 0
405 Lyrics Born - Same !@#$ Different Day 9 1 0
404 Ponys - Celebration Castle 9 2 0
403 Shannon Powell - Powell's Place 9 1 0
402 Shiny Toy Guns - We are Pilots 9 1 0
401 Supergrass - Road to Rouen 9 1 0
400 Tocotronic - Pure Vernunft Darf Niemals Siegen 9 1 0
399 Cass McCombs - Perfection 10 2 0
398 Constantines - Tournament of hearts 10 1 0
397 DJ Bossman - Street Anthems vol 2 10 1 0
396 DMBQ - Essential sounds from the Far East 10 1 0
395 Islaja - Meritie 10 1 0
394 Jennifer Gentle - Malende 10 1 0
393 Justus Kohncke - Doppeleben 10 1 0
392 Kultur Shock - Kultura-Diktatura 10 1 0
391 Larsen - Play 10 1 0
390 Lawrence - The Night will last forever 10 1 0
389 Luke Vibert - Lover's acid 10 1 0
388 Mary J Blige - The Breakthrough 10 1 0
387 Montgolfier Brothers - All my bad thoughts 10 1 0
386 Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth 10 1 0
385 Ooioo - Green and Gold 10 2 0
384 Polar Bear - Held on the tips of fingers 10 1 0
383 Quasimoto - Further adventures of Lord Quas 10 1 0
382 Statik - Connected 10 1 0
381 Toothfairy - Formative 10 1 0
380 Tullycrafy - Disenchanted hearts unite 10 1 0
379 Warlocks - Surgery 10 1 0
378 World's End Girlfriend - The Lie Lay Land 10 1 0
377 Orange Juice - The Glasgow School 10.5
376 DFA - Holiday mix 10.5
375 Annie - DJ Kicks 10.5
374 Betty Botox - World of Betty Botox 10.5 1 0
373 Burst - Origo 10.5 1 0
372 Dalek - Absence 10.5 1 0
371 Dark Tranquility - Character 10.5 1 0
370 Darling Downs - How can I foget this heart of mine 10.5 1 0
369 DJ Hell - Grossenwahn 1992-2005 10.5 1 0
368 Drones - Wait long by the river and the bodies of your enemies will float by 10.5 1 0
367 Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Viaticum 10.5 1 0
366 Excepter - Self Destruction 10.5 1 0
365 Frantic Bleep - The Sense apparatus 10.5 1 0
364 Gruff Rhys - Yr Atal Genhedlaeth 10.5 1 0
363 Knut - Terraformer 10.5 1 0
362 Laughing Clowns - Cruel but fair (Complete studio recordings0 10.5 1 0
361 Mew - And the glass handed kites 10.5 1 0
360 Present - A great inhumane adventure 10.5 1 0
359 Primordial - The gathering wilderness 10.5 1 0
358 Rogue Wave - Descended like vultures 10.5 1 0
357 Shining - In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster 10.5 1 0
356 Ulver - Blood inside 10.5 1 0
355 Various - A Bugged out mix by Erol Alkan 10.5 1 0
354 Various - Optimo present Psyche out (mix) 10.5 1 0
353 VDGG - Present 10.5 1 0
352 Calle 13 - Calle 13 11 1 0
351 Cowboy Troy - Loco Motive 11 1 0
350 Craig Harris - Souls within the veil 11 1 0
349 Go Kart Mozart - Speeding up the album charts 11 1 0
348 Jeffrey and Jack Lewis - City & Eastern Songs 11 1 0
347 Julian Neto - Le fumeur de ciel 11 1 0
346 Lucksmiths - Warmer Corners 11 1 0
345 Marissa Nadler - The saga of Mayflower May 11 1 0
344 Mendoza Line - Full of light and fire 11 1 0
343 Mint Condition - Livin' the luxury Brown 11 1 0
342 Mobius Band - City vs Country EP 11 1 0
341 Monika Enterprise (V/A) - 4 Women no cry 11 1 0
340 Reverend Al Green - Everything's ok 11 1 0
339 Robert Post - Robert Post 11 1 0
338 Sanso-Xtro - Sentimentalist 11 1 0
337 Shout Out Louds - Howl Howl Gaff Gaff 11 1 0
336 Sounds Like Sunset - Invisible 11 1 0
335 Wooden Wand - Harem of the Sundrum & The Witness Figg 11 1 0
334 Yann Tiersen - Les Retrouvailles 11 1 0
333 Boubacar Traore - Kongo Magni 12 1 0
332 Camille - Le Fil 12 1 0
331 Dubstep Allstars 2 mixed by Youngstar 12 1 0
330 Fast N Bulbous - Pork Chop Blue around the rind* 12 1 0
329 Hood - Outside Closer 12 2 0
328 Hot Hot Heat - Elevator 12 1 0
327 Jackson & His Computer Band - Smash 12 1 0
326 Jasper TX - I'll be long gone before the light reaches you 12 1 0
325 Jay Jay Johanson - Rush 12 1 0
324 Kent - Du & Jag Doden 12 1 0
323 Marsen Jules - Herbstlaub 12 1 0
322 Martha Wainwright - Martha Wainwright 12 1 0
321 Mayito Rivera -Llego de Hora 12 1 0
320 Raveonettes - Pretty in black 12 2 0
319 Wide Right - Sleeping on the coouch 12 1 0
318 Wir Sind Helden - Von Hier an Blind 12 1 0
317 Yann Tiersen and Shannon Wright - S/T 12 1 0
316 Damien Marley - Welcome to Jamrock 12.5 1 0
315 Keith Fullerton Whitman - Multiples 12.5 2 0
314 Xiu Xiu - La Foret 12.5 2 0
313 Jason Forrest – Shamelessly Exciting 13 1 0
312 Amerie - Touch 13 1 0
311 Athlete - Tourist 13 1 0
310 Darkness - One way ticket to hell and back 13 2 0
309 DFA - Holiday mix 13 1 0
308 DJ Mark Marcello - Ignant mix 13 1 0
307 Earth - Hex: Or Printing in the infernal method 13 1 0
306 Holly Golightly - Slowly but surely* 13 1 0
305 Makota Kawabata - Jellyfish Rising 13 1 0
304 Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten 13 1 0
303 Rolling Stones - A bigger bang 13 1 0
302 Slunt - Get a load of this 13 1 0
301 Thione Seck - Orientation 13 1 0
300 Various - Choubi Choubi! Folk & Pop Music from Iraq [Sublime 13 1 0
299 Virus Syndicate - Work related illness 13 1 0
298 Alarm Will Sound - Accoustica:The music of Aphex twin 14 1 0
297 Bardo Pond - Vol 6 14 1 0
296 Belladonnakillz - Pereverted and proud 14 1 0
295 Bill Frisell - Richter 858 14 1 0
294 Cocorosie - Noahs Ark 14 3 0
293 Diplo - Live in Montreal 14 1 0
292 Dominik Eulberg - Kreucht and Fleucht 14 1 0
291 Doves - Some cities 14 2 0
290 Emmiliana Torrini - Fishermans Woman 14 2 0
289 Jeans Team Musik von Oben 14 1 0
288 Jesse Somfay - Between heartbeats 14 1 0
287 Mitchell Brothers - A breath of fresh attire 14 4 0
286 OK Go - Oh No 14 1 0
285 Petra Haden - The Who Sell Out 14 2 0
284 Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep 14 4 0
283 Ryan Adams and The Cardinals - Cold Roses 14 1 0
282 Shelly Fairchild - Ride 14 1 0
281 The Margarets - Love will haunt you down 14 1 0
280 TheUSAisamonster - Wohaw 14 1 0
279 Why?- Elephant Eyelash 14 1 0
278 Bats - At the National Grid 15 1 0
277 Boom Bip - Blue Eyed in the Red Room 15 1 0
276 Cage - Hells Winter 15 1 0
275 Death from Above 1979 - Romance Bloody Romance 15 1 0
274 Dee Dee Bridgewater - J'ai Deux Amours 15 1 0
273 Diane Cluck - Countless Times 15 1 0
272 DJ Kose - Kosi comes around 15 1 0
271 Double Leopards - Out of One, through One and to One 15 1 0
270 Early Man - Closing in 15 1 0
269 Fursaxa - Lepidoptera 15 1 0
268 High on Fire - Blessed Black wings 15 1 0
267 Nada Surf - The weight is a gift 15 1 0
266 Sharon Jones & the Dap-Tones - Naturally 15 2 0
265 Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Shake the sheets 15 1 0
264 Yousef Shamoun - Taneh wu Raneh 15 1 0
263 AGF/Delay - Explode 16 1 0
262 Arthur Russell - World of echo 16 1 0
261 Beanie Siegel - The B. Coming 16 1 0
260 Beck - Guero 16 4 0
259 Benny Lackner Trio - Not the same 16 1 0
258 Bohren und der Club of Gore - Geistefaust 16 2 0
257 Boris - Akuma No Uta 16 1 0
256 Dead Machines - The Future Embrace 16 1 0
255 Dub Trio - Exploring the dangers of 16 1 0
254 Gilberto Santa Rosa/El Gran Combo - Asi es Nuestra Navidad 16 1 0
253 GZA vs DJ Muggs 16 1 0
252 Hot Chip - Coming on strong 16 1 0
251 Howling Hex - All night Fox 16 1 0
250 Lau Lau - Kutarha 16 1 0
249 Les Tres Bien Ensemble - Doux amers 16 1 0
248 Lil Kim - The Naked Truth 16 1 0
247 Malcolm Middleton - Into the woods 16 1 0
246 Oneida - The Wedding 16 1 0
245 Ric Ocasek - Nexterday 16 1 0
244 Turbonegro - Party Animals 16 1 0
243 Vex'd - Degenerate 16 1 0
242 Wilco - Kicking Television 16 2 0
241 Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insen 17 1 0
240 Andre Herman Dune - Taglich Brot 17 1 0
239 BBQ and King Khan - The King Khan and BBQ show 17 1 0
238 Billy Bang - Vietnam:Reflections 17 1 0
237 Dave Brubeck Quartet - London Flat, London Sharp 17 1 0
236 De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig Parels voor de Zwijnen 17 1 0
235 Dead Meadow - Feathers 17 1 0
234 Deaf Centre - Pale Ravine 17 1 0
233 Dr Dog - Easy Beat 17 1 0
232 Elbow - Leaders of the free world 17 1 0
231 James Carter, Cyrus Chesnut, Ali Jackson, Reginald Veal - Gold Sounds 17 1 0
230 Jenny Scheinman - 12 Songs* 17 1 0
229 Jon Hassell - Maarifa Sreet 17 1 0
228 Magnet - The Tourniquet 17 1 0
227 Mu - Out of the breach 17 1 0
226 My Computer - No CV 17 1 0
225 Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine 17 1 0
224 Taint - The ruin of Roma Nova 17 1 0
223 TBA - Annule 17 1 0
222 Various - One kiss can lead to another:Girl groups lost and found 17.5 2 0
221 50 Cent - The Massacre 18 1 0
220 BBQ - Tie your noose 18 1 0
219 Birchville Cat Motel - Chi Vampires 18 1 0
218 Christian Vogel - Station 55 18 1 0
217 Clor - Clor 18 3 0
216 Dave Douglas - Mountain Passages 18 1 0
215 David Wrench - The Atomic World of… 18 1 0
214 Deana Carter - Story of my life 18 2 0
213 Diplo - Favela Strikes Back 18 2 0
212 Iron and Wine - Woman King EP 18 3 0
211 Jason Moran - Same Mother 18 1 0
210 Katerine - Robots apres Tout 18 1 0
209 Living Things - Ahead of the Lions 18 2 0
208 Mohammad Iskandar - Hakini 18 1 0
207 Mount Sims - Wild Light* 18 1 0
206 Senor Coconut - Coconut FM:Legendary Latin Club Tunes 18 1 0
205 TSOOL - Origin vol 1 18 1 0
204 Witchcraft - Firewood 18 1 0
203 Black Lips - Let it bloom 19 1 0
202 Bob Drake - The Shunned Country 19 1 0
201 Edith Frost - It's a game 19 1 0
200 Excepter - Throne 19 2 0
199 Grouper - Way Their Crept 19 1 0
198 I Self Devine - Self Destruction 19 1 0
197 Jim Noir - Tower of love 19 1 0
196 Kraftwerk - Minimum/Maximum 19 1 0
195 Modey Lemon - The Curious City 19 1 0
194 Monica Queen - Reurn of the sacred heart 19 1 0
193 Pat Metheny Group - The way up 19 1 0
192 Pauline Croze - Pauline Croze 19 1 0
191 Rufus Wainwright - Want Two 19 1 0
190 Russian Futurists - Our thickness 19 2 0
189 Archer Prewitt - Wilderness 20 1 1
188 Atmosphere - You can't imagine how much fun we're having 20 1 1
187 Big Business - Head for the shallow 20 1 1
186 Buck 65 - This right here is Buck 65 20 2 0
185 Coldplay - X & Y 20 1 1
184 Coloma - Dovetail 20 2 0
183 Dave Douglas - Keystone 20 1 1
182 Deadly Snakes - Porcella 20 1 1
181 Dirty Projectors - The Getty Address 20 1 1
180 Hot 8 Brass Band - Rock with the Hot 8 20 1 1
179 Nedelle - From the Lions mouth 20 1 1
178 Orthrelm - OV 20 1 1
177 Sway - This is my promo vol. 2 20 1 1
176 Various - Prima Norsk vol.3 20 2 0
175 Woodbine - Best before end 20 1 1
174 Nine Horse - Snow Borne Sorrow 20.5 3 0
173 Black Dice - Broken Ear Record 21 3 0
172 Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic 21 2 0
171 The National - Alligator 21 2 0
170 Various - Rough guide to boogaloo 21 2 0
169 Wedding Present - Take Fountain 21 2 0
168 Windy and Carl - The Dream House/Dedications to Flea 21 2 0
167 Prefuse 73 -Prefuse 73 reads the books 21 2 0
166 Broken Family Band - Welcome home, loser 22 2 0
165 Paavoharju - Yha Hamaraa 22 2 0
164 Jan Jelinek - Kosmischer Pitch 22.5 3 0
163 Ashlee Simpson - I am me 23 2 0
162 Billy Corgan - The Future 23 2 0
161 Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman I'm a machine 23 2 0
160 Editors - The Back room 23 3 0
159 Eels - Blinking Lights and other revelations 23 2 1
158 Fischerspooner - Odyssey 23 3 0
157 Laura Veirs - Year of Meteors 23 2 0
156 Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain 23 4 0
155 R Kelly - TP3 Reloaded 23 3 0
154 Richie Hawtin - DE9:Transitions 23 2 0
153 Angels of Light and Akron Family - S/T 24 2 0
152 Autechre - Untitled 24 3 0
151 Caribou - Milk of human kindness 24 5 0
150 Field Music - Field Music 24 2 0
149 Koenjihyakkei - Angherr Shisspa* 24 2 0
148 Ween - Shinola 24 2 0
147 Young Jeezy - Let's get it 24 4 0
146 Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko - 28 25 2 0
145 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolf 25 2 0
144 Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard 25 2 0
143 M Ward - Transistor Radio 25.5 3 0
142 Clem Snide - End of love 26 2 0
141 Six Organs of Admittance - The School of the flower 26 3 0
140 The Game - The Documentary 26 3 0
139 Afrirampo - Kore Ga Mayaku Da 27 2 0
138 Keren Ann - Nolita 27 2 0
137 QOTSA - Lullabies to paralyze 27 3 0
136 Tompaulin - Into the black 27 2 0
135 Pernice Brothers - Discover a lovelier you* 27.5 2 0
134 Audion - Suckfish 28 2 0
133 Colleen - The Golden Morning Breaks 28 2 0
132 Manual - Azure vista* 28 2 0
131 New Order - Waiting for the Siren's call* 28 4 0
130 Superpitcher - Today 28 4 0
129 Kills - No wow 28.5 2 0
128 Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series Volume 7:No Direction Home 29 2 1
127 Royksopp - The Understanding 29 4 1
126 Whitey - The light at the end of the tunnel is a train 29.5 2 0
125 Alog - Miniatures 30 3 0
124 Arcade Fire - Funeral 30 4 0
123 Brakes - Give blood 30 2 0
122 Chelonis R Jones - Dislocated Genius 30 2 0
121 Miguel “Anga” Diaz - Echu Mingua 30 2 0
120 Rakes - Capture/Release 30 3 0
119 Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - Horses in the sky 30 2 0
118 USE - United States of Electronica 30 2 0
117 Jaga Jazzist - What we must 30.5 2 1
116 Books - Lost and safe* 31 3 0
115 Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene 31 4 0
114 Feist - Let it die 31 3 0
113 Kevin Blechdom - Eat my heart out 31 2 0
112 Murcof - Rembranza 31 3 1
111 Sunn o))) - Black One 31 3 0
110 Sons & Daughters - The Repulsion Box 31.5 4 0
109 Boards of Canada - Campfire Headphase 32 4 0
108 Cranebuilders - Sometimes you hear from someone else 32 2 1
107 Linstrom and Prins Tomas - Linstrom and Prins Thomas 32 3 0
106 Pelican - The fire in our throats 32 3 0
105 Richard Davis - Details 32 2 0
104 Ghostface/Trife - Put it on the line 33 3 0
103 Lady Sovereign - Vertically Challenged 33 3 0
102 Meshuggah - Catch 33 33 2 0
101 Chemical Brothers - Push the button 34 3 0
100 Devin Davis - Lonely People of the World Unite 35 2 1
96 Sugababes - Taller in more ways 36 3 0
96 Mannie Fresh - The mind of… 36 3 0
96 Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II 36 3 0
96 Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Days Of Mars 36 3 0
95 Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow* 36.5 4 0
94 Shortwave Set - Collecting your debt 37 4 0
93 Herman Dune - Not on top 37 2 1
92 Soulwax - Nite Versions 37.5 3 0
90 Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall 38 2 0
90 Fall - Complete Peel Sessions box 38 2 0
89 The Chap - Ham 39 3 0
88 Half Man Half Biscuit - Achtung Bono 39 4 0
87 Various - Kompakt Total 6 39 5 0
86 Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy 39 3 1
85 Rhythm and Sound - See Mi Yah 40.5 3 0
84 Gang Gang Dance - God's Money 41 3 0
83 TATU - Dangerous and moving 42 3 0
82 Eluvium - Talk among the trees 42 4 0
81 Go-Betweens - Oceans apart 43 4 0
80 Silver Jews - Tanglewood numbers 44 3 1
79 Jesu - Jesu 44.5 3 1
78 Modeselektor - Hello Mom! 45 3 0
77 Venetian Snares - Rossz Czillag Alatt Szuletett 46 3 0
76 M.A.N.D.Y - Body Language 47 3 0
75 Clipse - We got it for cheap vol 1 & 2 48 5 0
74 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - CYHSY 49 6 0
73 Opeth - Ghost Reveries* 49.5 3 1
72 Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins 49.5 4 1
71 Goldfrapp - Supernature 50 6 0
70 Outrageous Cherry - Our love will change the world 52 3 0
69 Architecture in Helsinki - In case we die 52 4 1
68 Decemberists - Picaresque 54 5 0
67 Fall - Fall Heads Roll 54 4 1
66 Go Team - Thunder Lightning Strike 54 5 0
65 Stars - Set yourself on fire 54 6 0
64 Fannypack - See you next Tuesday 55 4 1
63 Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche a Bamako 55 4 2
62 Various - Run the Road 56 7 0
61 Akron Family - Akron Family 57 4 1
60 Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing my choir* 57 6 0
59 Roisin Murphy - Ruby Blue 57 7 0
58 Black Mountain - Black Mountain 58 4 0
57 Andrew Bird - The Mysterious production of eggs 59 5 0
56 Richard Hawley - Coles Corner* 60 4 1
55 Jamie Lidell - Multiply 61 6 0
54 Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock N Roll 63 6 0
53 Electrelane - Axes 63 5 1
52 Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft 63.5 5 1
51 Fiery Furnaces - EP 64 6 0
50 Daft Punk - Human after all 64 6 0
49 Franz Ferdinand - You could have it so much better… 65 7 0
48 Smog - A River ain't too much 65 4 1
47 Maximo Park - A certain trigger 66 6 0
46 Depeche Mode - Playing the angels 66.5 6 0
45 Annie - Anniemal 67 5 0
44 Juan Maclean - Less than human 67.5 7 0
43 Dangerdoom - The Mouse and the Mask 68.5 9 0
42 Bright Eyes - I'm wide awake it's morning 71 7 0
41 My Morning Jacket - Z 72 6 1
40 Tom Vek - We have sound 73.5 4 0
39 Alan Braxe & Friends - The Upper Cut 73.5 6 0
38 Konono no.1 - Congotronics* 76.5 9 0
37 Stephen Malkmus - Face the truth* 78 6 0
36 Ellen Allien - Thrills* 89 7 0
35 Whites Stripes - Get behind me Satan 90 10 0
34 Missy Elliot - The Cookbook* 91.5 7 1
33 Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine 95.5 8 0
32 Patrick Wolf - Wind in the wires 97 6 1
31 Madonna - Confessions on a dancefloor 97.5 8 0
30 Low - The Great Destroyer 100 8 0
29 Sigur Ros - Takk 101.5 11 1
28 Deerhoof - The Runners Four 102 8 0
27 Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary 104.5 9 0
26 Kelley Polar - Love songs of the Hanging Gardens 105 8 0
25 The Clientele - Strange Geometry* 105.5 9 0
24 Ladytron - The Witching Hour 111 9 0
23 Saint Etienne - Tales from Turnpike House 111 8 2
22 Out Hud - Let us never speak of it again 114 8 0
21 Sleater Kinney - The Woods 115 11 0
20 Antony and the Johnsons - I am a bird now 116 12 0
19 New Pornographers - Twin Cinema 125.5 9 1
18 M83 - Before dawn heals us 141 11 2
17 Gorillaz - Demon Days 142.5 12 2
16 Hold Steady - Separation Sunday 154 13 1
15 Robyn - Robyn 155 11 1
14 Rachel Stevens - Come and get it 159 12 1
13 Mountain Goats - Sunset Tree 174 13 0
12 Kanye West - Late Registration 177 14 0
11 Girls Aloud - Chemistry 177 14 0
10 Kate Bush - Aerial* 181 11 5
9 Broadcast - Tender Buttons* 192 15 0
8 Isolee - Wearmonster 200 13 2
7 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois 205 16 1
6 Bloc Party - Silent alarm 206 19 1
5 Animal Collective - Feels 208 19 0
4 Vitalic - OK Cowboy 217.5 20 2
3 Spoon - Gimme Fiction 221.5 20 2
2 LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem 333.5 26 2
1 MIA - Arular* 490.5 36 7

Does this mean that someone else actually voted for this?

points / number of votes / number of top slot positions

Although I haven't bothered to listen to the Campfire Headphase OR Everything Ecstatic really. I'm kind of amazed how the BoC support collapsed around here because Geogaddi would've been totally up there in any 2002 ILM poll. Is the gulf in quality between the two that great or have people just got bored of them now?

HAHA

When Chris Martin picks up mainstream music awards the deluded fool thinks his band is important.

1. Sigur Ros - Takk...
2. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
3. Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
4. Animal Collective - Feels
5. Rhythm and Sound - See Mi Yah
6. Low - The Great Destroyer
7. Jesu - Jesu
8. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
9. Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra&Tra-La-La Band - Horses In the Sky
10. Ellen Allien - Thrills
11. The Warlocks - Surgery
12. Audion - Suckfish
13. Billy Corgan - The Future Embrace
14. t.A.T.u - Dangerous and Moving
15. Sunn O))) - Black One
16. New Order - Waiting For the Sirens' Call
17. Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
18. Six By Seven - Left Luggage at the Peveril Hotel
19. Xiu Xiu - La Foret
20. Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep

It was up there on the 2000-2004 poll -- top ten, IIRC. People definitely haven't forgotten about them but the "Campfire Headphase" hype really deflated after the album's release.

If you listened to The Campfire Headphase you'd know why!

so are #376 and #309, I noticed

cos y know making people happy with yr unthreatening melodic niceness is so much less important than oh whatever. fuck the kids at woollies aye?

anyway. here's the list of an ageing indie kid and synthpop fan who's a sucker for anthemic rock.

ALBUMS
1. M83: Before The Dawn Heals Us (20 points)
2. The Fall: The Complete Peel Sessions (19)
3. Arcade Fire: Funeral (18)
4. Meshuggah: Catch 33 (17)
5. Malcolm Middleton: Into The Woods (16)
6. Boom Bip: Blue Eyed In The Red Room (15)
7. Depeche Mode: Playing The Angel (14)
8. Pelican: The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw (13)
9. Electrelane: Axes (12)
10. Spoon: Gimme Fiction (11)
11. Hood: Outside Closer (10)
12. Lali Puna: I Thought I Was Over That (9)
13. Goldfrapp: Supernature (8)
14. The Wedding Present: Take Fountain (7)
15. Low: The Great Destroyer (6)
16. UpCDownCLeftCRightCABC+Start: And The Battle Is Won (5)
17. Isolee: WeAreMonster (4)
18. Stars: Set Yourself On Fire (3)
19. Antony and the Johnsons: I Am A Bird Now (2)
20. Sigur Ros: Takk (1)

SONGS
1. M83: Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun (20)
2. M83: Don't Save Me From The Flames (Superpitcher Remix) (19)
3. Arcade Fire: Rebellion (Lies) (18)
4. U2: Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own (17)
5. Malcolm Middleton: Choir (16)
6. Lali Puna: Micronomic (Boom Bip Remix) (15)
7. UpCDownCLeftCRightCABC+Start: Comfort Me, I've Lost My Heart (14)
8. Low: Pissing (13)
9. M83: A Guitar And A Heart (12)
10. Goldfrapp: Number One (11)
11. Stars: Ageless Beauty (10)
12. Matt Sweeney and Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Beast For Thee (9)
13. New Order: Waiting For The Sirens' Call (8)
14. Moby: Love Should (7)
15. Gang Of Four: Natural's Not In It (Ladytron Remodel) (6)
16. New Order: Temptation (Secret Machines Remix) (5)
17. Bloc Party: The Pioneers (M83 Remix) (4)
18. New Order: Krafty (3)
19. The Wedding Present: Interstate 5 (2)
20. Depeche Mode: Precious (1)

For the record, although I didn't poll:

1. Broadcast - 'Tender Buttons'
2. Animal Collective - 'Feels'
3. Deerhoof - 'The Runners Four'
4. Arcade Fire - 'Funeral'
5. Lightning Bolt - 'Hypermagic Mountain'
6. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - 'Worn Copy'
7. Xiu Xiu - 'La Foret'
8. Electrelane - 'Axes'
9. Art Brut - 'Bang Bang Rock & Roll'
10. Danger Doom - 'The Mouse & The Mask'
11. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - 's/t'
12. OOIOO - 'Green & Gold'
13. Architecture In Helsinki - 'In Case We Die'
14. Oneida - 'The Wedding'
15. Bell Orchestre - 'Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light'
16. Four Tet - 'Everything Ecstatic'
17. Sam Prekop - 'Who's Your New Professor?'
18. Colleen - 'The Golden Morning Breaks'
19. Black Dice - 'Broken Ear Record'
20. Part Chimp - 'I Am Come'

No one else voted for this??? C'mon people!

My number one is 86 so my list actually didn't mean that much afterall, as it should be. haha

This is v different from one of the discs I have of his (on Durian) - its ok, but its the kind of thing that I find quite common for composers coming out of central europe.

Yeah - Mannie got robbed. Even if he did come out last year.

256 Dead Machines - The Future Embrace 16 1 0

162 Billy Corgan - The Future 23 2 0

but great job overall man

Does that mean s.f.a. should have been in top 50?

No, they had less points than #50 and 51.

I am astounded that New Order finished so low! And nobody else loved Mount Sims! Ah well ... my vote.

1. Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
2. Books - Lost and Safe
3. Mount Sims - Wild Light
4. Pernice Brothers - Discover A Lovlier You
5. The Clientele - Strange Geometry
6. Kate Bush - Aerial
7. Manual - Azure Vista
8. Holly Golightly - Slowly But Surely
9. New Order - Waiting For The Sirens' Call
10. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
11. Ween - Shinola
12. Josh Rouse - Nashville
13. Dungen - Ta Det Lungt
14. Matt Pond PA - Several Arrows Later
15. M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us
16. Great Lake Swimmers - Bodies And Minds
17. Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
18. Solvent - Apples + Synthesizers
19. The National - Alligator
20. The Music Lovers - The Words We Say Before We Sleep

and, more importantly, what game was the upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start cheat from?!