The Best CDs of 2005.


Andrew P Street doesn't muck around. As dB Magazines noble, erudite and very slightly hungover Music Editor he takes his responsibilities as The Guy What Compiles The End Of Year Lists very seriously - if anything, a little too seriously.

He gets quite funny about it, to be honest: harassing every one of dBs writers relentlessly about what they thought was the best and most exciting music theyd heard this year, then feeding the results through the Listenator-Ranktron6000 to come up with an accurate reflection of what dB Magazine, as a whole, thinks was the raddest music of 2005.

And here it is, in all its listy glory: and how lovely it is to see so many Adelaide bands represented, including three of the top five (and mad props to Pharaohs for taking out the number one possie!).



Vote Squad 2005 are: Brett Allen-Bayes, Scott Berry, Nina Bertok, Lauren Boxhall, Alexis Buxton-Collins, Eddie Chan, Lauren Connelly, Julian Cram, Lara Derham, Kate Fabbian, Simon Foster, Cassie Hilditch, Steven Hocking, Wade Howland, Cara Hume, Michael Hunter, Steve Jones, Tim Koch, Jess Law, Adrian Lee, Mark Liebelt, Nick Parkin, Anthony Paxton, Morgan Read, Jeremy Reglar, Ben Revi, Sam Ryan, Lenin Simos, Ryan Smith, Ann-Marie Sosnowski, Peter Strelan, Leo Verona, Matt Vesely, Narelle Walker, Maddi West, Jack Wilde, Steve Williams, Jeremy Wright and Andrew P Street.


AUSTRALIAN

1. Pharaohs: The Forest For The Trees (Mixmasters/Shock)


2. Belittle League: Oh, I Fell Down (independent)
3. Gyroscope: Are You Involved? (FMR)
4. The Presets: Beams (Modular/UMA)
5. No Through Road: Lo-Fi Sandwich (independent)
6. The Cat Empire: Two Shoes (Virgin/EMI)
7. Sounds Like Sunset: Invisible (Architecture/Shock)
8. End Of Fashion: End Of Fashion (Capitol/EMI)
9. Wolfmother: Wolfmother (Modular/UMA)
10. Ben Lee: Awake Is The New Sleep (Ten Fingers/Inertia)
11. Kid Kenobi: Sessions (Ministry of Sound/EMI)
12. Shihad: Love Is The New Hate (Warner)
13. Bodyjar: Bodyjar (Shock)
14. Parkway Drive: Killing With a Smile (Resist)
15. Newtonheath: Between Windows (Independent)
16. Grand Fatal: Allies (Setfiretomyhome/Shock)
17. Architecture In Helsinki: In Case We Die (Tailem Bend/Bar-None/Shock)
18. Kisschasy: United Paper People (Capitol/EMI)
19. Tim Rogers & The Temperance Union: Dirty Ron/Ghost Songs (FMR)
20. Tex, Don and Charlie: All Is Forgiven (UMA)
21. Katalyst: Dusted (Invada/Inertia)
22. Ianto Ware: No Sleep Et Al (independent)
23. The Drones: Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By (In-Fidelity/Shock)
24. The Yearlings: Wind Already Blown (Mixmasters/Shock)
25. The Beautiful Girls: We're Already Gone (San Dumo/EMI)
26. Holly Throsby: On Night (Spunk!/Inertia)
27. Gauche: Paints Lane (Invada/Inertia)
28. The Hot Lies: Heart Attacks and Callous Acts (Liberation)
29. Magic Dirt: Snow White (Warner)
30. After The Fall: Always. Forever. Now (Rapido/FMR)



INTERNATIONAL

1. The Arcade Fire: Funeral (Spunk!/Inertia)


2. Beck: Guero (Geffen/UMA)
3. The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree (4AD/Remote Control/Inertia)
4. Bloc Party: Silent Alarm (Wichita/FMR)
5. Ladytron: Witching Hour (Island/UMA)
6. Foo Fighters: In Your Honor (SonyBMG)
7. Death Cab For Cutie: Plans (Atlantic/Warners)
8. ...Trail Of Dead: Worlds Apart (Interscope/UMA)
9. Sufjan Stevens: Illinoise (Spunk!/Inertia)
10. The Mars Volta: Frances The Mute (Shock)
11. Okkervil River: Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguar/Low Transit Industries)
12. The White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan (Xl/Remote Control/Shock)
13. Goldfrapp: Supernature (Mute/EMI)
14. DJ Kentaro: On the Wheels of Solid Steel (Ninja Tune/Intertia)
15. Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (Saddle Creek/Stomp)
16. Queens Of The Stoneage: Lullabies To Paralyze (Interscope/UMA)
17. Doves: Some Cities (Heavenly/EMI)
18. Unwritten Law: Here's To The Mourning (Lava/Warner)
19. Avenged Sevenfold: City Of Evil (Warner)
20. Z Trip: Shifting Gears (Hollywood/FMR)
21. System Of A Down: Mezmerize (Columbia/Sony)
22. LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem (DFA/EMI)
23. Garbage: Bleed Like Me (FMR)
24. Lucinda Williams: Live At The Fillmore (Lost Highway/UMG)
25. Nine Inch Nails: With Teeth (Nothing/UMA)
26. Rolling Stones, The: The Bigger Bang (EMI)
27. Four Tet: Everything Ecstatic (Domino/Inertia)
28. Smog: A River Ain't Too Much To Love (Drag City/Spunk!/Inertia)
29. Sage Francis: A Healthy Distrust (Epitaph/Shock)
30. Kanye West: Late Registration (Rocafella/UMA)

But who liked what?


Brett Allen-Bayes

AUSTRALIAN
1. Richard Tognetti: Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin (ABC)
2. Michael Kieran Harvey & Peter Cundall: Messiaen: Catalogue des oiseaux (Move)
3. Andy Cowan: Sweet Release (ABC)
4. Afterimage: Slava Grigoryan plays the Music of Shaun Rigney (ABC)
5. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (Mute/EMI)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Mark Murphy and Till Bronner: Once to Every Heart (Verve)
2. Lucinda Williams: Live at the Fillmore (Lost Highway)
3. Jane Birkin: Rendez-vous (EMI France)
4. Bob Dylan: Bootleg Series Vol.7: No Direction Home (SonyBMG)
5. The Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang (Virgin/EMI)


Scott Berry

AUSTRALIAN
1. Sounds Like Sunset: Invisible (Architecture/Shock)
2. Rhubarb : Start Again (Toupee)
3. Newtonheath: Between Windows (Independent)
4. The Whats: All Mouth No Trousers (Reverberation)
5. Faker: Addicted Romantic (EMI)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Bloc Party: Silent Alarm (Wichita/FMR)
2. Arcade Fire: Funeral (Spunk!/Inertia)
3. Sufjan Stevens: Illinoise (Spunk!/Inertia)
4. Mewithoutyou: Catch The Foxes (Tooth And Nail/ Shock)
5. Idlewild: Warnings/Promises (EMI)


Nina Bertok

AUSTRALIAN
1. Bodyjar: Bodyjar (Shock)
2. Cog: The New Normal (Difrnt Music/MGM)
3. Shihad: Love Is The New Hate (Warner)
4. Sarah Blasko: The Overture & The Underscore (UMA)
5. Parkway Drive: Killing With A Smile (?)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Foo Fighters: In Your Honor (Sony BMG)
2. Garbage: Bleed Like Me (FMR)
3. The Mars Volta: Frances The Mute (Shock)
4. Queens Of The Stone Age: Lullabies To Paralyze (Interscrope/UMA)
5. System Of A Down: Mezmerize (Columbia/Sony)


Lauren Boxhall

AUSTRALIAN
1. Pharaohs: The Forest For The Trees: (Mixmasters/Shock)
2. Wolfmother: Wolfmother (Modular/UMA)
3. 67 Special: The World Can Wait (FMR)
4. The Presets: Beams (Modular/UMA)
5. The Pictures: Pictures Of Eight:(Smash Music)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better (Domino/SonyBMG)
2. Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation: Mighty Rearranger (Sanctuary/SonyBMG)
3. Doves: Some Cities (Heavenly/EMI)
4. The Delays: Faded Seaside Glamour (Rough Trade)
5. Willy Mason: Where The Humans Eat (Virgin/EMI)


James Brazel

AUSTRALIAN
1. Raven Black Night: Choose The Dark (Independent)
2. Mythica: Mythica (Independent)
3. Deafening Silence: Destruction is Creation (Independent)
4. A Red Dawn: This Urban Conflict (Independent)
5. Double Dragon: Have Them Destroyed (Independent)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Necro: Necro aka The Sexorcist (Psychological/Shock)
2. Napalm Death: The Code is Red... Long Live the Code (Century Media/Shock)
3. Soulfly: Dark Ages (Roadrunner)
4. Strapping Young Lad: Alien (Century Media/Shock)
5. Static-X: Start a War (Warner)


Alexis Buxton-Collins

AUSTRALIAN
1. Paso Bionic: Empty Beats For Lonely Rappers (Elefant Traks/Inertia)
2. Holly Throsby: On Night (Spunk!/Inertia) 1+2
3. Katalyst: Dusted (Invada Records)
4. Various Artists: This Is The Place For A Song (FMR)
5. TZU: Smiling At Strangers (Liberation/FMR)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Edan: Beauty And The Beat (Inertia)
2. Bright Eyes: Im Wide Awake Its Morning (Saddle Creek/Stomp)
3. Sage Francis: A Healthy Distrust (Epitaph/Shock)
4. Nas: Streets Disciple (Sony)
5. Daara J: Boomerang (Shock)


Eddie Chan

AUSTRALIAN
1. Holly Throsby: On Night (Spunk!/Inertia)
2. Little Ice Age: Little Ice Age EP (Independent)
3. Belittle League: Oh, I Fell Down (Independent)
4. Ben Lee: Awake Is The New Sleep (Ten Fingers/Inertia)
5. Pharaohs: Broken Arms/Panic Stations 7" (Mixmasters/Shock)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Mae: The Everglow (Tooth & Nail/Stomp)
2. Death Cab For Cutie: Plans (Atlantic /Warner)
3. VHS or Beta: Night On Fire (Astralwerks/EMI)
4. The Arcade Fire: Funeral (Spunk!/Inertia)
5. Bloc Party: Silent Alarm (Witchita/FMR)


Lauren Connolley

AUSTRALIAN
1. Magic Dirt: Snow White (Warner)
2. Bodyjar: Bodyjar (Shock)
3. Away From Now: Blackout (Shock)
4. Gyroscope: Are You Involved? (FMR)
5. Grand Fatal: Allies (Set Fire To My Home)

INTERNATIONAL
1. ...Trail Of Dead: Worlds Apart (Interscope/UMA)
2. Bloc Party: Silent Alarm (Wichita/FMR)
3. The Mars Volta: Frances The Mute (Shock)
4. Garbage: Bleed Like Me (FMR)
5. Queens Of The Stoneage: Lullabies To Paralyze (Shock)


Julian Cram

AUSTRALIAN
1. Kid Kenobi: Sessions (Ministry of Sound/EMI)
2. Statler & Waldorf: Andronovavirus /MRA Entertainment*
3. Katalyst: Dusted (Invada/Inertia)
4. Wolfmother: Wolfmother (Modular/UMA)
5. The Herd: The Sun Never Sets (Elefant Traks/Inertia)

INTERNATIONAL
1. DreadZone: Beatz and Bobz 4 (Distinctive Beats)
2. Z-Trip: Shifting Gears (Hollywood Records)
3. Pest: All Out Fall Out (Ninja Tune/Inertia)
4. DJ Kentaro : On The Wheels of Solid Steel (Ninja Tune/Intertia)
5. DJ Friendly: Chew The Fat! Vol 1 (Fat! Records)


Lara Derham

AUSTRALIAN
1. Belittle League: Oh, I Fell Down (independent)
2. No Through Road: Lo-Fi Sandwich (independent)
3. Pharoahs: The Forest For The Trees (Mixmasters/Shock)
4. Ianto Ware: No Sleep Et Al (independent)
5. Clue To Kalo: One Way, Its Every Way (Spunk!/Inertia)

INTERNATIONAL
1. The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree (4AD/Remote Control/Inertia)
2. Grandaddy: The Diary Of Todd Zilla (V2/FMR)
3. Smog: A River Aint Too Much To Love (Drag City/Spunk!/Inertia)
4. Ladytron: Witching Hour (UMA)
5. Boards Of Canada: The Campfire Headphase (Warp/Inertia)


Kate Fabbian

AUSTRALIAN
1. After The Fall: Always. Forever. Now (Rapido/FMR)
2. End of Fashion: End of Fashion (Capitol/EMI)
3. Behind Crimson Eyes: Pavour Nocturnus (Boomtown)
4. Kisschasy: United Paper People (Capitol/EMI)
5. Bodyjar: Bodyjar (Shock)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Unwritten Law: Heres To The Mourning (Lava/Warner)
2. Beck: Guero (Interscope/UMA)
3. Spoon: Gimme Fiction (Remote Control/Inertia)
4. Goldfrapp: Supernature (Mute/EMI)
5. The Dears: No Cities Left (SpeaknSpell/Inertia)


Simon Foster

AUSTRALIAN
1. The Drones: Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By (In-Fidelity/Shock)
2. Tim Rogers & The Temperance Union: Dirty Ron/Ghost Songs (FMR)
3.The Gin Club: Fear Of The Sea (Plus One/Reverberation)
4.Ill Starred Captain: Yeh Nah! (Seawitch Music/Greasy Pop)
5. The Cat Empire: Two Shoes (EMI)

INTERNATIONAL
1. The White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan (Xl/Remote Control/Shock)
2. Queens Of The Stoneage: Lullabies To Paralyze (Interscope)
3.Emiliana Torrini: Fishermans Woman (Rough Trade/Shock)
4.Sons & Daughters: The Repulsion Box (Domino/Remote Control)
5.Beck: Guero (Interscope/UMA)


Cassie Hilditch

AUSTRALIAN
1. Pharaohs: Forest For The Trees (Mixmasters/Shock)
2. Belittle League: Oh, I Fell Down (Independent)
3. The Presets: Beams (Modular/UMA)
4. No Through Road: Lo-Fi Sandwich (Independent)
5. Ben Lee: Awake Is The New Sleep (Ten Fingers/Inertia)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Death Cab For Cutie: Plans (Atlantic/Warner)
2. The Arcade Fire: Funeral (Spunk/Inertia)
3. Jens Lekman: Oh Youre So Silent Jens (Secretly Canadian)
4. The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree (4AD/Remote Control/Inertia)
5. Bright Eyes: Its Wide Awake Its Morning (Saddle Creek/Stomp)


Steven Hocking

AUSTRALIAN
1. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus (Mute)
2. The Go-Betweens: Oceans Apart (Lo-Max/EMI)
3. Tex, Don and Charlie: All Is Forgiven (Universal)
4. The Dirty Three: Cinder (Remote Control/Inertia)
5. Gentle Ben and His Sensitive Side: The Sober Light Of Day (Spooky)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Richard Hawley: Coles Corner (Mute/EMI)
2. Richmond Fontaine: The Fitzgerald (El Cortez/Shock)
3. Four Tet: Everything Ecstatic (UMA)
4. The Magic Numbers: The Magic Numbers (Heavenly/EMI)
5. Lucinda Williams: Live At The Fillmore (Lost Highway/UMG)


Wade Howland

AUSTRALIAN
1. Wolfmother: Wolfmother (Modular/UMA)
2. Pharaohs: The Forest For the Trees (Mixmasters/Shock)
3. Magic Dirt: Snow White (Warner)
4. Tucker Bs: Chubby (Pompus/Remote Control)
5. Wolf and Cub: Steal Their Gold (dot dash/Remote Control)

INTERNATIONAL
1. System Of A Down: Mezmerize (Columbia/Sony)
2. Electric Six: Senor Smoke (Warner)
3. The White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan (XL)
4. Super Furry Animals: Love Kraft (Rough Trade/Shock)
5. Early Man: Closing In (Matador/Remote)


Cara Hume

AUSTRALIAN
1. Faker: Addicted Romantic (EMI)
2. End Of Fashion: End Of Fashion (EMI)
3. The Mess Hall: Notes From A Ceiling (Shock)
4. The Cat Empire: Two Shoes (EMI)
5. Belittle League: Oh, I Fell Down (independent)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Goldfrapp: Supernature (Mute/EMI)
2. The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree (Remote Control/Inertia)
3. Beck: Guero (UMA)
4. Foo Fighters: In Your Honor (SonyBMG)
5. Ladytron: Witching Hour (Island/UMA)


Michael Hunter

AUSTRALIAN
1. Young Modern: Play Faster: 25th Anniversary Edition (Aztec
Music/Didgeridoo)
2. The Yearlings: Wind Already Blown (Mixmasters/Shock)
3. Problem Pony: To Catch The Moon (Shock)
4. Aurora Jane: What Is It? (MGM)
5. Jodi Martin: 15 Minutes Out To Sea (Hot Bread/MGM)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Richard Thompson: Front Parlour Ballads (Cooking Vinyl/Shock)
2. Lojo: Ce Soir La (On That Night) (Wrasse/Shock)
3. Vashti Bunyan: Lookaftering (Fat Cat/Inertia)
4. Judy Dyble: Enchanted Garden (Talking Elephant)
5. Pipedreams: Kick Out The Ghosts (Offbeat)


Steve Jones

AUSTRALIAN
1. The Vasco Era: Miles (independent)
2. Xavier Rudd: Food In The Belly (Salt X Records/UMA)
3. The Cat Empire: Two Shoes (EMI)
4. Brian Cadd: Quietly Rusting (MGM)
5. Swayback: The Quest For Rock And Roll (independent)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Maria McKee: Peddlin Dreams (Geffin/UMA)
2. The Rolling Stones: The Bigger Bang (EMI)
3. U2: How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (Island/UMA)
4. Tom Waits: Real Gone (Anti/Shock)
5. Tori Amos: The Beekeeper (Epic/SonyBMG)


Tim Koch

AUSTRALIAN
1. Pivot: Make Me Love You (Sensory Projects)
2. Cut Copy: Future (Modular)
3. Little Ice Age: self titled (Independent)
4. New Buffalo: New Buffalo (Dot Dash)
5. Jeremy Dower: Music for the Young & the Restless (Bit of Heaven)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Sufjan Stevens: Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty/Spunk!/Inertia)
2. Mouse On Mars: Live04 (Sonig)
3. Ennio Morricone: Crime and Dissonance (Ipecac)
4. Sun Kil Moon: Tiny Cities (Caldo Verde)
5. Deerhoof: The Runners Four (Kill Rock Stars)


Jess Law

AUSTRALIAN
1. The Beautiful Girls: Were Already Gone (San Dumo/EMI)
2. Shihad: Love Is The New Hate (Warner)
3. Hermitude: Tales of Drift (Elefant Tracks/Inertia)
4. Sarah Blasko: The Overture and the Underscore (UMA)
5. The Cat Empire: Two Shoes (Virgin/EMI)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Beck: Guero (UMA)
2. Salmonella Dub: Dub For Straights (Virgin/EMI)
3. The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree (4AD/Remote Control/Inertia)
4. Finch: Say Hello To Sunshine (UMA)
5. Fall Of Troy: Doppelganger (Equal Vision/Stomp)


Adrian Lee

AUSTRALIAN
1. Day of Contempt: The Will to Live (Pulse/Epitaph/Shock)
2. Parkway Drive: Killing With A Smile (Resist)
3. Stolen Youth: When Spiders Unite (independent)
4. A Thousand Nightmares: The Coldness of Departure (independent)
5. Ben Lee: Awake is The New Sleep (Ten Fingers/Inertia)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Soilwork: Stabbing The Drama (Nuclear Blast)
2. Avenged Sevenfold: City of Evil (Warner Brothers)
3. As I Lay Dying: Shadows Are Security (Metal Blade/Stomp)
4. 50 Cent: The Massacre (Shady/Interscope/UMA)
5. Kanye West: Late Registration (Roccafella/UMA)


Mark Leibelt

AUSTRALIAN
1. Paul Kelly & The Stormwater Boys: Foggy Highway (EMI)
2. Rogue Traders: Here Come The Drums (SonyBMG)
3. Not Drowning, Waving: Through The One Last Door (independent)
4. Red Phoenix: Red Phoenix (independent)
5. Thirsty Merc: Thirsty Merc (Warner)

INTERNATIONAL
1. The Foo Fighters: In Your Honor (SonyBMG)
2. Cream: Live at Royal Albert Hall 2005 (Warner)
3. Sheryl Crow: Wildflower (Warner)
4. KT Tunstall: Eye To The Telescope (EMI)
5. Bruce Springsteen: Devils & Dust (SonyBMG)


Nick Parkin

AUSTRALIAN
1. Gauche: Paints Lane
2. Wolfmother: Wolfmother
3. Pendulum: Hold Your Colour
4. The Beautiful Girls: Were Already Gone
5. Tim Rogers & The Temperance Union: Dirty Ron/Ghost Songs

INTERNATIONAL
1. The Mars Volta: Frances The Mute
2. Fingathing: And the Big Red Nebula Band
3. Hot Chip: Coming On Strong
4. ...Trail Of Dead: Worlds Apart
5. DJ Kentaro: On the Wheels of Solid Steel


Anthony Paxton

AUSTRALIAN
1. Sounds Like Sunset: Invisible (Architecture/Shock)
2. This is Your Captain Speaking: Storyboard (Independent)
3. Kid Kenobi: Sessions (Ministry of Sound/EMI)
4. Tex, Don and Charlie: All Is Forgiven (Universal)
5. No Through Road: Lo-Fi Sandwich (independent)

INTERNATIONAL
1. DJ Kentaro : On the Wheels of Solid Steel (Ninja Tune/Intertia)
2. Thievery Corporation: The Cosmic Game (Eighteenth Street Lounge)
3. Gackt: Love Letter (Japan Crown)
4. Everything But The Girl: Adapt Or Die: Ten Years Of Remixes (Atlantic/WEA)
5. Five Corners Quintet: Chasin The Jazz Gone By (Ricky Tick)


Morgan Read

AUSTRALIAN
1. Architecture In Helsinki: In Case We Die (Tailem Ben/Shock)
2. The Presets: Beams (Modular/UMA)

INTERNATIONAL
1. 5. LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem (DFA/EMI)
2. Beck: Guero (Geffen/UMA)
3. Bloc Party: Silent Alarm (Wichita/FMR)
4. Ladytron: Witching Hour (Island/UMA)
5. The White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan (Xl/Remote


Jeremy Reglar

AUSTRALIAN
1. Belittle League: Oh, I Fell Down (independent)
2. The Presets: Beams (Modular/UMA)
3. Pharaohs: The Forest For The Trees (Mixmasters/Shock)
4. No Through Road: Lo-Fi Sandwich (independenet)
5. Ianto Ware: No Sleep Et Al (independent)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Beck: Guero (Geffen/UMA)
2. The Arcade Fire: Funeral (Spunk!/Inertia)
3. Death Cab For Cutie: Plans (Warner)
4. The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree (4AD/Remote Control/Inertia)
5. ...Trail Of Dead: Worlds Apart (UMA)


Ben Revi

AUSTRALIAN
1. Bad Girls Of The Bible: 88 Keys/Simple Mistakes (Independent)
2. Grand Salvo: The Temporal Wheel (Preservation/Inertia)
3. Clue To Kalo: One Way, Its The Only Way (Mush/Spunk!/Inertia)
4. This Is Your Captain Speaking: Storyboard (Independent)
5. Aviator Lane: Today, The Hills Are Closed (Patterns In Static/Independent)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Lise Westzynthius: Rock, You Can Fly (One Little Indian)
2. Jaga: What We Must (Ninja Tune/Inertia)
3. Sleater-Kinney: The Woods (Sub Pop/Stomp)
4. I Am Kloot: Gods And Monsters (Echo/Liberation)
5. Aveo: Battery (Barsuk/Stomp)


Sam Ryan

AUSTRALIAN
1. End Of Fashion: End Of Fashion (Capitol/EMI)
2. Guache: Paints Lane (Invada/Inertia)
3. Cog: The New Normal (Difrnt Music/MGM)
4. The Presets: Beams (Modular/UMA)
5. Claire Bowditch And The Feeding Set: What Was Left (Capitol/EMI)
INTERNATIONAL
1. Beck: Guero (Geffen/UMA)
2. Nine Inch Nails: With Teeth (Nothing/UMA)
3. Fiona Apple: Extraordinary Machine (Epic/Sony)
4. Doves: Some Cities (Capitol/EMI)
5. Colder: Heat (Modular/UMA)


Lenin Simos

AUSTRALIAN
1. Striborg: Mysterious Semblance (Independent)
2. Daniel Varricchio: Daniel Varricchio (Rhizome)
3. Various: It's Over, We Dont Care (Spanish Magic)
4. Francis Plagne: Idle Bones (Synaesthesia)
5. Various: Charms Cut From Our Trees (Mymwly)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Eddie Marcon: Shining On Graveposts (Preservation)
2. The Howling Hex: All-Night Fox (Drag City)
3. Family Underground: Ancient Shadows (QBICO)
4. Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice: Buck Dharma (Time Lag)
5. Avarus: Ruskea Timantti (Tumult)


Ryan Smith

AUSTRALIAN
1. The Hot Lies: Heart Attacks and Callous Acts EP (Liberation)
2. Newtonheath: Between Windows (Independent)
3. Xavier Rudd: Food In The Belly (UMA)
4. Gyroscope: Are You Involved? (FMR)
5. Architecture In Helsinki: In Case We Die (Tailem Bend/Bar-None)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Green Day: American Idiot (Warner)
2. Blood Brothers: Crimes (V2 Records)
3. Bloc Party: Silent Alarm (Wichita/FMR)
4 Team Sleep: Team Sleep (Maverick/Warner)
5. My Chemical Romance: Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (Reprise/Warner)


Ann Marie Sosnowski

AUSTRALIAN
1. Gyroscope: Are You Involved? (FMR)
2. End Of Fashion: End Of Fashion (Capitol/EMI)
3. After The Fall: Always. Forever. Now (Rapido/FMR)
4. Wolf and Cub: Steal Their Gold (dot dash/Remote Control)
5. Kisschasy: United Paper People (Capitol/EMI)
INTERNATIONAL
1. Unwritten Law: Heres To The Mourning (Lava/Warner)
2. Ladytron: Witching Hour (Island/UMA)
3. Bloc Party: Silent Alarm (Wichita/FMR)
4. The Dears: No Cities Left (SpeaknSpell/Inertia)
5. Beck: Guero (Geffen/UMA)


Andrew P Street

AUSTRALIAN
1. Pharaohs: The Forest For The Trees (Mixmasters/Shock)
2. Belittle League: Oh, I Fell Down (independent)
3. Sounds Like Sunset: Invisible (Architecture/Shock)
4. Ianto Ware: No Sleep Et Al (independent)
5. No Through Road: Lo-Fi Sandwich (independent)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Okkervil River: Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguar/Low Transit Industries)
2. The Arcade Fire: Funeral (Spunk!/Inertia)
3. Ladytron: Witching Hour (Island/UMA)
4. The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree (4AD/Remote Control/Inertia)
5. Sage Francis: A Healthy Distrust (Epitaph/Shock)


Peter Strelan

AUSTRALIAN
1. The Drones: Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By (In-Fidelity/Shock)
2. Dirty Three: Cinders (Fish Of Milk/Shock)
3. The Cat Empire: Two Shoes (EMI)
4. Tim Rogers And The Temperance Union: Dirty Ron/Ghost Stories (FMR)
5. Tex, Don & Charlie All Is Forgiven (UMA)

INTERNATIONAL
1. The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree (4AD/Remote Control/Inertia)
2. The Arcade Fire: Funeral (Spunk!/Inertia)
3. Bright Eyes: Im Wide Awake Its Morning (Saddle Cerek/Stomp)
4. Eels: Blinking Lights And Other Revelations (UMA)
5. My Morning Jacket: Z (UMA)


Leo Verona

AUSTRALIAN
1. Kid Kenobi: Sessions (Ministry Of Sound/FMR)
2. Pendulum: Hold Your Colour (Breakbeat Kaos/Juno)
3. Mnemonic Ascent: The Books Full (Crookneck/Stomp)
4. The Herd: The Sun Never Sets (Elefant Traks/Inertia)
5. Katalyst: Dusted (Invada/UMA)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Sharon Jones And The Dap Kings: Naturally (Daptone/Reverberation)
2. Z Trip: Shifting Gears (Hollywood/FMR)
3. Kanye West: Late Registration (Rocafella/UMA)
4. Goldfrapp: Supernature (Mute/EMI)
5. LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem (DFA/EMI)


Matt Vesley

AUSTRALIAN
1. Gyroscope: Are You Involved? (FMR)
2. Kisschasy: United Paper People (EMI)
3. Grand Fatal: Allies (Setfiretomyhome/Shock)
4. Pharoahs: Forest For The Trees (Mixmasters/Shock)
5. Benchplayer: Benchplayer (independent)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Foo Fighters: In Your Honor (Sony BMG)
2. Rufio: The Comfort Of Home (Nitro)
3. ...Trail Of Dead: Worlds Apart (Interscope/UMA)
4. Millencolin: Kingwood (Burning Heart/Shock)
5. Armor For Sleep: What To Do When You Are Dead (Equal Vision/Stomp)


Narelle Walker

AUSTRALIAN
1. The Yearlings: Wind Already Blown (Mixmasters)
2. The Mess Hall: Notes From A Ceiling (Shock)
3. Silvermine Tapes: A Tenuous Thread (Patterns In Static)
4. Problem Pony: To Catch The Moon (Mixmasters)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Electrelane: Axes (Too Pure)
2. Rogers Sisters: Three Fingers (Too Pure)
3. Boom Bip: Blue Eyed In The Red Room (Lex)
4. Four Tet: Everything Ecstatic (Domino)
5. Okkervil River: Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguar/Low Transit Industries)


Maddi West

AUSTRALIAN
1. Parkway Drive: Killing With a Smile (Resist)
2. A Thousand Nightmares: The Coldness of Departure (Independent)
3. The Hot Lies: Heart Attacks and Callous Acts (Liberation Music)
4. The Jerks: Waiting for the Breakdown (Two Bucks)
5. Stolen Youth: When Spiders Unite (Two Bucks)

INTERNATIONAL
1. The Transplants: Haunted Cities (La Salle)
2. Avenged Sevenfold: City Of Evil (Warner)
3. HIM: Dark Light (Sire/Warner)
4. Mest: Photographs (Maverick)
5. Nine Inch Nails: With Teeth (Nothing/UMA)


Jack Wilde

AUSTRALIAN
1. Jon Dale: Son DOr (Rhizome)
2. Francis Plagne: Idle Bones (Synaesthesia)
3. Arek Gulbenkoglu: Points Alone (Impermanent)
4. Ernie Althoff: Dark By 6 (Antboy)
5. Chris Abrahams: Thrown (Room40)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Hototogisu: Green (Heavy Blossom)
2. Isolee: We Are Monster (Playhouse)
3. Cardinal: Cardinal [Reissue] (Empyrean)
4. Various: Total 6 (Kompakt)
5. Smog: A River Aint Too Much To Love (Drag City/Spunk!/Inertia)


Steve Williams

AUSTRALIAN
1. Ben Lee: Awake Is The New Sleep (Ten Fingers/Inertia)
2. The Boat People: yesyesyesyesyes (Frumpy/Shock)
3. Peabody: The New Violence (Nonzero/Shock)
4. The Cants: Melbourne Vampires (In-Fidelity/Shock)
5. Architecture In Helsinki: In Case We Die (Tailem Bend/Bar-None)

INTERNATIONAL
1. The Arcade Fire: Funeral (Spunk!/Inertia)
2. Hard-Fi: Stars Of CCTV (Necessary/Atlantic/Warners)
3. Bloc Party: Silent Alarm (Wichita/FMR)
4. Doves: Some Cities (Heavenly/EMI)
5. Death Cab For Cutie: Plans (Atlantic/Warners)


Sherree Woodmore

AUSTRALIAN
1. Jade McRae: Jade McRae (Roadshow/SonyBMG)
2. The Veronicas: The Secret Life Of The Veronicas (Sire/Warner)
3. Thirsty Merc: Thirsty Merc (Warner)
4. Vassy: My Affection (Fly/Warner)
5. Amiel: These Ties (FMR)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Mariah Carey: The Emanciapation Of Mimi (Island/UMA)
2. Madonna: Confessions On A Dance Floor (Warner)
3. Brooke Valentine: Chain Letter (Virgin/EMI)
4. Shakira: Fijacion Oral Vol. 1 (SonyBMG)
5. Faith Evans: The First Lady (Capitol/EMI)


Jeremy Wright

AUSTRALIAN
1. Sounds Like Sunset: Invisible (Architecture/Shock)
2. Grand Fatal: Allies (Setfiretomyhome/Shock)
3. Move To Strike: Battlefield Postcards (Independent)
4. Newtonheath: Between Windows (Independent)
5. Gyroscope: Are You Involved? (FMR)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Sufjan Stevens: Illinoise! (Spunk!/Inertia)
2. The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree (4AD)
3. Okkervil River: Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguar/Low Transit Industries)
4. Arcade Fire, The: Funeral (Spunk!/Inertia)
5. Bloc Party: Silent Alarm (Wichita/FMR)