Tippy top of 2005

***In NO particular order...
(& excluding Solid PR artists, in case you were wondering, because obviously i love all of them!)
Jamie Lidell – Multiply [Warp]
Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine [Epic / Clean Slate]
Beck – Guero (& Guerolito) [Interscope]
M.I.A. - Arular [XL]
Lungfish – Feral Hymns [Dischord]
Nedelle – From The Lions Mouth [Kill Rock Stars]
Skeletons & The Girl Faced Boys – Git [Ghostly Int’l]
Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now [Secretly Canadian]
Devendra Banhart – Cripple Crow [XL]
The Boy Least Likely To – Best Party Ever [Rough Trade]

***Honorable Mentions
Make Believe – Shock of Being [Flameshovel]
Madonna - Confessions On A Dancefloor [Warner]
Prefuse 73 – Surrounded By Silence [Warp]
Dungen – Stadsvandringar [Astralwerks]
The Books – Lost & Safe [Tom Lab]