Best music of 2005
See “Best of 2008” for a general introduction, and the 2006 one for comments about how the years around now seem to be where it all came together. Antony and the Johnsons – I am a Bird now I thought this wasn’t my sort of thing at the time , and I couldn’t have cared less about the Mercury Music Prize and the controversy around singer/pianist Antony Hegarty’s (now Anohni) UK vs US eligibility. But with a little encouragement from a friend far more forward-thinking and open-minded than I can be (hopefully just sometimes, I flatter myself), I gave it the time of day and then I fell in love with it. A totally unique and beautiful sound. Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Volume 1: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness Less pop-pun k than its two predecessors, this record wears its prog-rock influences on its sleeve (Led Zeppelin – Welcome Home, Pink Floyd – The Final Cut), perhaps, but this is definitely an example of great artists stealing than mere g...