Pitchfork: Top Albums of 2005
Ah! Pitchforkmedia! Like the NME it’s a brilliant place for music news, yet we like to moan about their pretentious musical twit-snobbery as much as is humanly possible. The sort of thing we love to hate! We treat those we love the worst though don’t we? Admittedly, I do eagerly await their annual top 50 albums. I was expecting to be writing a big bitching session right now, but some of my top albums (like Deerhoof and M.I.A.) appear in the top ten. More importantly the two almost universally over-rated ‘indie’ albums of the year; ‘Silent Alarm’ by Block Party and the yawn-tastic ‘X&Y’ by Coldplay are missing from the top of that list. So I begrudgingly say “hurrah Pitchfork”. Ugh. I’m going to go and take a shower.