[iron mitchell]

my picks, in order (i'm pretty sure these are all 2005)...

20. kinski - alpine static
19. exceptor - throne
18. a taste of ra - s/t
17. le fly pan am - 'n'écoutez pas'
16. dead machines - futures
15. majik - the human hand
14. mindflayer - die and mold
13. spires that in the sunset rise - four winds the walker
12. yuma nora - red train graphing the sunset of all
11. circulus - the lick on the tip of an envelope yet to be sent
10. wooden wand and the vanishing voice - lun marquer contre la moissonneuse
9. brothers of the occult sisterhood - run from your honey mind
8. panicsville - perverse
7. the north sea/xenis emputae band split
6. the skaters - dark rye bread
5. jane - berserker
4. orthrelm - ov
3. mountain goats - the sunset tree
2. davenport - field tales
1. six organs of admittance - the school of the flower

plenty more awesome stuff that would normally make the list, but there's just been so much great shit already. hell, i could make a top 10 list of just new davenport-related releases. here are my biggest disappointments of the year so far (i actually enjoyed all of these but rarely listen to them, which is quite surprising)...

devendra banhart - cripple crow
black dice - broken ear record
xiu xiu - la foret
keith fullerton whitman - multiples
the coughs - fright makes right