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Record Collector Magazine: Best New Albums Of 2005

Click on an album or album title to read more. Unlike most music magazines, Record Collector does not individually rank the albums in its end of year lists.


Record Collector is a monthly music magazine published in Britain. It was founded in September 1979. Record Collector claims to be the world's foremost authority on recorded contemporary music. It is responsible for the Rare Record Price Guide, an annual publication held in high regard by both collectors and traders.

New Albums
Of The Year
2006 : 2004
2003


Best Album 2005
Grammy Awards
Mercury Prize

MOBO Awards


Albums of 2005

Mixmag
Mojo
NME
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Beck
Guero
Previous albums: Beck, Mellow Gold, Midnite Vultures, Mutations, Odelay, One Foot In The Grave, Sea Change, Stereopathic Soul Manure, Stray Blues
Albums released since: Guerolito, The Information
 
British Sea Power
Open Season
Previous albums: The Decline Of British Sea Power
Albums released since: None
 
Kate Bush
Aerial
Previous albums: Hounds Of Love, Lionheart, Never For Ever, The Dreaming, The Kick Inside, The Red Shoes, The Sensual World
Albums released since: None
 
Elvis Costello And The Imposters
The Delivery Man

Previous albums: All This Useless Beauty, Almost Blue, Armed Forces, Blood And Chocolate, Brutal Youth, Costello & Nieve (with Steve Nieve), Cruel Smile, Deep Dead Blue (with Bill Frisell), For The Stars (with Anne-Sofie von Otter), G.B.H. (with Richard Harvey), Get Happy!!, Goodbye Cruel World, Imperial Bedroom, Jake's Progress (with Richard Harvey), King Of America, Kojak Variety, Live At The El Mocambo, Mighty Like A Rose, My Aim Is True, North, Painted From Memory (with Burt Bacharach), Spike, Terror & Magnificence (with John Harle), The Delivery Man, The Juliet Letters (with The Brodsky Quartet), The Sweetest Punch (with Bill Frisell), This Year's Model, Trust, When I Was Cruel

Albums released since: Il Sogno, My Flame Burns Blue, Piano Jazz (with Marian McParland), The River In Reverse (with Allen Toussaint)
 
Brian Eno
Another Day On Earth
Previous albums: 18 Keyboard Studies By Hans F. Micheelsen, Ambient 1: Music For Airports, Ambient 3: The Plateaux Of Mirrors, Ambient 4: On Land, Another Green World, Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks, Before And After Science, Begegnungen, Begegnungen II, Bell Studies For The Clock Of The Long Now, Cluster & Eno, Cluster & Eno – After The Heat, Drawn From Life, Discreet Music, Empty Landscapes, Extracts From Music For White Cube, Headcandy, Here Come The Warm Jets, I Dormienti, Kite Stories, Lightness: Music For The Marble Palace, Music For Films, Music For Films, Vol. 2, Music For Films, Vol. 3, My Life In The Bush of Ghosts (with David Byrne), Neroli, Nerve Net, Spinner All Saints (with Jah Wobble), Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), The Drop, The Shutov Assembly, Thursday Afternoon, Wrong Way Up (with John Cale)
Albums released since: None
 
Madonna
Confessions On A Dance Floor

Previous albums: American Life, Bedtime Stories, Erotica, Evita (Soundtrack), I'm Breathless (Soundtrack), Like A Prayer, Like A Virgin, Madonna, Music, True Blue, Who's That Girl (Soundtrack), You Can Dance

Albums released since: I'm Going To Tell You A Secret (Live)
 
Bobby Purify
Better To Have It
Previous albums: None
Albums released since: None
 
The Darkness
One Way Ticket To Hell... And Back
Previous albums: Permission To Land
Albums released since: None
 
The White Stripes
Get Behind Me Satan
Previous albums: De Stijl, Elephant, The White Stripes, White Blood Cells
Albums released since: None
 
Paul Weller
As Is Now
Previous albums: Heavy Soul, Heliocentric, Illumination, Paul Weller, Stanley Road, Studio 150, Wild Wood
Albums released since: None

 



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