Favorites of 2005 (so far):
Missy Elliott - "The Cookbook"
Stephen Malkmus - "Face the Truth"
Fiery Furnaces - "Rehearsing My Choir"
Fiery Furnaces - "EP"
Opeth - "Ghost Reveries"
Devendra Banhart - "Cripple Crow"
New Pornographers - "Twin Cinema"
M.I.A. - "Arular"
A-Frames - "Black Forest"
Fantomas - "Suspended Animation"
Ellen Allien - "Thrills"
Jennifer Gentle - "Valende"
Fast N Bulbous - "Pork Chop Blue Around the Rind"
"Believer Magazine 2005 Music Issue (included CD)"
Jason Forrest - "Lady Fantasy EP"
Best of 2004:
Blood Brothers - "Crimes"
Joanna Newsom - "The Milk Eyed Mender"
Devendra Banhart - "Rejoicing in the Hands" and "Nino Rojo"
M.I.A. and Diplo - "Piracy Funds Terrorism Vol. 1"
N.E.R.D. - "Fly or Die"
Magnetic Fields - "i"
Black Keys - "Rubber Factory"
Jason Forrest - "The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash"
Keren Ann - "Not Going Anywhere"
A.C. Newman - "The Slow Wonder"
Jewels & Binoculars Plays the Music of Bob Dylan - "Floater"
Air - "Talkie Walkie"
Lali Puna - "Faking the Books"
Fiery Furnaces - "Blueberry Boat"
Nellie McKay - "Get Away From Me"
The Streets - "A Grand Don't Come For Free"
Ghost - "Hypnotic Underworld"
Dave Douglas - "Strange Liberation"
Sonic Youth - "Sonic Nurse"
The Futureheads - s/t
Wolf Eyes - "Burned Mind"
Jenny Scheinman - "Shalagaster"
Pig Destroyer - "Terrifyer"
Jerry Granelli w/Rinde Eckert - "Sandhills Reunion"