CAB's best albums of 2005 - 2010?

[Nice Relaxing Poo]

ha ha, I was just thinking the other day that's the only album I ever bought new by them and it's the one I listened to least. Not that it's bad, it just didn't grab me like the others by them I've heard. EDIT - no..I was thinking of Deceiver of the Gods not Twilight

Twilight... was their last good album for me. They've been struggling for good song ideas on the last 4 they've done to the point where I don't give them a listen.

[kalowski]

2005
Tanglewood Numbers - Silver Jews
Black Mountain - Black Mountain
Spiritual-Unity - Marc Ribot
Transistor Radio - M Ward
A River Ain't Too Much to Love - Smog
Gimme Fiction - Spoon
Brain Donor - Brain Donor
Be - Common
Cruel Sister - Rachel Unthank
Nashville - Josh Rouse
Devils & Dust - Bruce Springsteen
Face the Truth - Stephen Malkmus
Engineers - Engineers

[badaids]

Probably the most fallow period for music ever perhaps but here goes:

Broadcast - Tender Buttons.
Broadcast and Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults...
Boards of Canada - Campfire Headphase.
Tindersticks - Falling Down a Mountain.

And that's about it.

[chveik]

Spiritual-Unity - Marc Ribot

great shout!

[purlieu]

Songs:
Warpaint - The Fool
Therapy? - Crooked Timber
Frightened Rabbit - Sing the Greys
Wire - Red Barked Tree
John Frusciante - Curtains
Robyn - Body Talk
Tellison - Contact! Contact!
Roddy Woomble - My Secret is My Silence
Diane Cluck - Oh Vanille/Ova Nil

Instrumentals:
36 - Hypersona
The Future Sound of London - Environments II
Goldmund - The Malady of Elegance
Autechre - Quaristice
Deaf Center - Pale Ravine
Murcof - Remembranza
Ben Frost - Theory of Machines

[Smeraldina Rima]

Eliane Radigue - L'îsle Re-Sonante
Eliane Radigue - Tryptich
Julius Eastman - Unjust Malaise
Arthur Russell - Calling Out Of Context
Arthur Russell - First Thought Best Thought
Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me

Radiohead - In Rainbows
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
School of Language - Sea From Shore
Richard Youngs - The Naive Shaman
Richard Youngs - Autumn Response
Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises

+

Broadcast - Tender Buttons

British Sea Power - Open Season

Tanglewood Numbers - Silver Jews

William D Drake -Briney Hooves

[willbo]

Twilight... was their last good album for me. They've been struggling for good song ideas on the last 4 they've done to the point where I don't give them a listen.

I thought Jomsviking was considered a return to form by AA experts, I borrowed a download it for a while and thought it was ok but not sure how it compares to the greats.

[sevendaughters]

consulted some old mag lists

AFX - Analord
Deerhoof - The Runners Four
J Dilla - Donuts
Konono No. 1 - Congotronics
The Knife - Silent Shout (! how did I miss this ! )
Mouthus - Saw a Halo
Oneida - Happy New Year
Women - Public Strain
Richard Youngs - Beyond the Valley of Ultrahits

[willbo]

I want to see people's choices for years 10-15 and 15-20 now

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Silent Shout, Donuts and Konono No 1! All great.

I liked A New Chance by Tough Alliance a lot at the time but I think that kinda thing has aged pretty badly.

[sevendaughters]

I liked A New Chance by Tough Alliance a lot at the time but I think that kinda thing has aged pretty badly.

the amount of stuff I found on lists where I was sure I liked it a lot at the time and would not listen to now was higher than a comparable sift through stuff from my mid teens. Love Is All? christ.

[poloniusmonk]

Some others that I really liked at the time which I haven't seen mentioned:

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Parts & Labor - Stay Afraid, Mapmaker, Receivers, as well as Dan Friel's Ghost Town
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline
Why? - Alopecia
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing and Tarot Sports
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Sleigh Bells - Treats

[imitationleather]

Ceephax Acid Crew - United Acid Emirates

[The Crumb]

Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline

Now that's a lovely choice, a beautiful album to immerse yourself in.



The Antlers - Hospice
The National - Boxer
Autechre - Untilted
Low - The Great Destroyer
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
Ladytron - The Witching Hour
Caribou - Swim
Broken Social Scene - S/T
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

[Norton Canes]

The Knife - Silent Shout (! how did I miss this ! )

Me too

Because it was one of the last CDs I bought and I only checked downloads for this

[Captain Z]

The Mollusk Project - Sudan
Fortitudinal - Is This Punctuation?
Haus Arsene - Nightmahre
Microbots of Chileo - Yout Don't Wanna Go Down That Road, Down That Road There Be Trouble
Elementary My Dear Watson - Postman's Party
Dance In The Dust - Lemon, Orange, Lemon
Montezuma Griffiths - Sagrada Unfamiliar
Adam Uneven - What If We Lived Inside The House

[Kankurette]

The Woods by Sleater-Kinney. So Long, Scarecrow by Scarling. With Love & Squalor by We Are Scientists. I'm sure there's more.

I'm also one of the few Tori fans who doesn't think American Doll Posse is a steaming pile of wank.

[Clatty McCutcheon]

Seems like it was during this period that the term 'Americana' started being overused, but there was a run of strong albums from Okkervil River (Black Sheep Boy, The Stage Names, The Stand-Ins). I also played the hell out of Midlake's 'The Trials of Van Occupanther' - it seemed to prefigure the coming back into fashion (or maybe the coming into fashion for the first time) of that California soft rock sound, only with a kind of offbeat sensibility.

In a slightly more rocky vein, I think The Hold Steady's 'Boys and Girls in America' holds up quite well too, as long as you can cope with a vocalist who is often more speaking than singing.

[Kankurette]

The Hold Steady are a band I should get into more because the singer reminds me of Randy Newman. Amazing lyrics as well.

ETA: can I add Arcade Fire? Neon Bible?

[Sebastian Cobb]

I mostly listened to idm, dnb and breakcore around that period, most guitar stuff was pretty dull imo. Some things I like have already been mentioned but will add:

Bitcrush - Epilogue in Waves
Bitcrush - Shimmer and Fade
Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
Lorn - Nothing Else
Mux Mool - Skulltaste
Drumcorps - Grist
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
Venetian Snares - My Downfall (Original Soundtrack)
Arc Lab - No Spectre
Altar Eagle ‎– Mechanical Gardens
Bibio ‎- Mind Bokeh
Meat Beat Manifesto ‎- Autoimmune
Tycho - Sunrise Projector Past is Prologue
Squarepusher - Hello Everything
Squarepusher - Just a Souvenir
Squarepusher Presents Shobaleader One ‎– d'Demonstrator

Admittedly some of the artists listed here (Squarepusher, Schnauss) have favourites outside the date-range and some stuff I thought up and had to omit because it was from 2011 (Gang Gang Dance being a big one).

[Greg Torso]

Lot of good noise/weird stuff in 05-10

Coughs - Fright Makes Right
Hospitals - I've Visited The Islands Of Jocks And Jazz, Hairdryer Peace
Can't - self-titled , Private Time
Preggy Peggy And The Lazy Babymakers - Get An Ace Case Of The Measles
Pygmy Shrews - The Egyptian
Air Conditioning - Dead Rails
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here, Emeralds
Noxagt - Noxagt
Landed - How Little Will It Take
Hair Police - Certainty Of Swarms

(already mentioned: Yellow Swans, Shit & Shine, Sightings, Big Blood, Scott Walker)

[The Mollusk]

Deerhoof - Offend Maggie

Not to mention "Friend Opportunity" and "The Runners Four". Those three albums are among their very best.

Secret Chiefs 3 - Xaphan

It's their best album, I think. Huge props to Zorn for writing it, it's fucking sensational.

[buttgammon]

This was the period in which I was in my teens, so my musical recollections of that time are massively prejudiced by nostalgia. Loads of stuff I like has already been mentioned, but there was also

In Ghost Colours by Cut Copy (which I revisited recently and found it's aged surprisingly well)
Halcyon Digest, Microcastle and Weird Era Cont. by Deerhunter
The Renaissance by Q-Tip
The first Friendly Fires album (which I haven't listened to in years, admittedly)
Someone to Drive You Home by The Long Blondes
Odd Blood by Yeasayer
From Here We Go Sublime by The Field
Chromophobia by Gui Boratto
Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus
Ambivalence Avenue by Bibio

We've had Sound of Silver but everything LCD Soundsystem did in that time was fantastic and for me, their first album was a very potent gateway drug to pretty much everything I listened to for the next ten years.

[Norton Canes]

This was the period in which I was in my teens, so my musical recollections of that time are massively prejudiced by nostalgia. Loads of stuff I like has already been mentioned, but there was also

In Ghost Colours by Cut Copy (which I revisited recently and found it's aged surprisingly well)
The first Friendly Fires album (which I haven't listened to in years, admittedly)
Odd Blood by Yeasayer
From Here We Go Sublime by The Field

Brilliant, I had all of these in mind too

[Captain Z]

A couple of these will be obvious, but I also enjoyed

Flan-L - Swedish Torch
Viscount Disco - Can I Get A Price Check Please Susan
Superheron - Life Is An Atom
Tiiiibet - The Eyes To The Right
The Mighty Acorns -  Hallucineight

[jobotic]

Venetian Snares ‎– Rossz Csillag Alatt Született

[SteveDave]

MGMT

"Congratulations" not the first one right?

[SteveDave]

The first two Arctic Monkeys albums and half of the third one
"Congratulations" by MGMT

[chveik]

if you like unending horror and heaviness then I recommend Entrance by Sword Heaven, which probably should be on my list. It frightens me too much to play the vinyl in full.

this really scratches an itch. reminds me of some Prurient stuff

[The Mollusk]

The Cribs had an excellent run with their spunky sophomore album "The New Fellas", solid gold spiky hook-laden breakthrough "Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever" and wonderful melodic Johnny Marr collaboration "Ignore The Ignorant". Very impressive, but then they are one of the more underrated indie bands of the last 20 years!