since i fucking hate pretty much everyone else's end-of-the-year lists, here's mine:

12 favorite albums put out in 2005
animal collective - feels
black mountain - black mountain
the books - lost and safe
broken social scene - broken social scene
cheeseburger - the gang's all here
deerhoof - the runners four
the huntingtons
ifihadahifi - no more music
jens lekman - oh you're so silent jens
okkervil river - black sheep boy
oneida - the wedding
wolf parade - apologies to the queen mary

12 favorite albums coming out in 2006
(with notation for those i've heard already)
january
the gossip - standing in the way of control
test-icicles - for screening purposes only
tunng - mother's daughter and other songs*

february
man man - six demon bag*
arctic monkeys - whatever people say i am, that's what i'm not*
belle & sebastian - the life pursuit
liars - drum's not dead

march
mogwai - mr. beast
eastern youth - 365-step blues
an albatross - blessphamy of the peace beast feastgiver & the bear warp kumite

july
oneida - thank your parents

fall
les savy fav

12 favorite non-2005 albums i discovered (and liked) in 2005the beta band - heroes to zeros

vashti bunyan - just another diamond dayjohnny cash - at folsom prisonchin up chin up - we should have never lived like we were skyscrapersthe flaming lips - the soft bulletingza - liquid swordsthe libertines - up the bracketmr. bungle - californiaraekwon - only built 4 cuban linxthe streets - original pirate materialthese arms are snakes - oxeneers or the lion sleeps when its antelope go homethe unicorns - who will cut our hair when we're gone?