- Fires in Distant Buidings – Gravenhurst
- Deadwing – Porcupine tree
- Blinking Lights And Other Revelations – eels
- Funeral – The Arcade Fire
- i’m Wide Awake it’s Morning – Bright Eyes
- Illinois – Sufjan Stevens
- Picaresque – The Decemberists
- God’s And Monsters – I am Kloot
- Emoh – Lou Barlow
- Digital Ash In Digital Urn – Bright Eyes
- Frances The Mute – The Mars Volta
- Chutes Too Narrow – The Shins
- Give Blood – Brakes
- Easy Beat – Dr Dog
- Vegetables and Fruit – Hallo Venray
- Feels – Animal Collective
- The Deep End – Madrugada
- Ghost Reveries – Opeth
- Z – My Morning Jacket
- The Secret Migration – Mercury Rev
- Liquid (Rock And Roll Dream) Thule
- On The Outside – Starsailor
- Variations on A Theme – Om
- Plans – Death Cab For Cutie
- Talk Like Blood – 31 Knots
- In het Gras – De Mens
- Later Is Nu – De Dijk
- The Leaders Of The Free World – Elbow
- Present – Van Der Graaf Generator
- De Snevo’s
- Takk – Sigur Ros
- Alligator – The National
- Black Sheep Boy – Okkervil River
- Get Behind Me Satan – The White Stripes
- Master Of Disaster – John Hiatt
- Tounament of Hearts – The Constantines
- Demon Days – Gorillaz
- Second Life Syndrome – Riverside
- Silent Alarm – Bloc Party
- Andrew Bird and The Mysterious Production of Eggs – Andrew Bird
- Apologies To The Queen Mary – Wolf Parade
- Lullabies To Paralyze – Queens of The Stoneage
- Mezmerize – System Of A Down
- A Certain Trigger – Maximo Park
- At Soundless Dawn – Red Sparowes
- The Sunlandic Twins – Of Montreal
- Black Mountain
- Everyone in Position – Oceansize
- Worlds Apart – And You Know Us By The Trail Of death
- Hex, Or Printing In The Infernal Method – Earth
- Aerial – Kate Bush
- A River Ain’t Too Much Love – Smog
- Superwolf – Matt Sweeney & Bonnie “Prince” Billy
- The Back Room – Editors
- Pocket Revolution – dEUS
- Siberia – Echo & The Bunnymen
- Firebird – Gazpacho
- The Warrior’s Code – The Dropkick MurphyĆ
- Akron/Family and The Angels of Light
- Du & Jag Doden – Kent
- Curtains – John Frusciante
- Twin Cinema – The New Pornographers
- Coles Corner – Richard Hawley
- No Balance Palace – Kashmir
- Blood Inside – Ulver
- Hypermagic Mountain – Lightning Bolt
- The Repulsion Box – Sons and Daughter’s
- Golevka – The Evpatoria Report
- Horses in The Sky – The Silver MT. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra- la -La band
- No Flashlight: Songs Of The Fulfilled Night – Mount Eerie
- Shinola Vol.1 – Ween
- The Hawaiian Open Mic Night Magic – The Wave Pictures
- Disaffected – Piano Magic
- Descentded Like Vultures – Rogue Wave
- Stadsvandringar – Dungen
- The Weed Tree – Espers
- If The Sky Falls, We Shal Catch Larks – Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat
- Sonic Prayer – Earthless
- Man- Made – The Teenage fanclub
- Wind In The Wires – Patrick Wolf
- Carousel Waltz – The Robot Ate Me
- 1v. The Eerie Cold – Shining
- Oceans Apart – The Go-Betweens
- Playing The Angel – Depeche Mode
- Bodies and Minds – Great Lake Swimmers
- Broken Social Scene
- What Comes After The Blues – Magnolia Electric Co.
- Fall Heads Roll – The Fall
- Tanglewood Numbers – Silver Jews
- Angherr Shisspa – Koenjihyakkei
- Prefection – Cass Mc Combs
- Cripple Crow – Devandra Banhart
- Snow Born Sorrow – Nine Horses
- Anthem Of The Space – Acid Mother Temple & The Cosmic Inferno
- Achtung Bono – Half Man Half Biscuit
- Gimme Fiction – Spoon
- How! – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
- Face The Truth – Stephan Malkmus
- Maestro – Kaizers Orchestra
- The Runners Four – Deerhoof
- Sol29 – No Sound
- One Time For All Time – 65daysofstatic
- The Great Destroyer – Low
- Road To Rouen – Supergrass
- Feathers – Dead Meadow
- Fies The Fields – Shipping News
- You Could Have It So Much Better – Franz Ferdinand
- Suspended Animation – Fantomas
- Kraut Lok – Space Debris
- Not On Top – Herman Dune
- Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah
- Lost And Safe – The Books
- The Sane Day – Beardfish
- Themata – Karnivool
- Les Nuits – The Nits
- School of the Flower – Six Organs Of Admittance
- Voice Of Wilderness – Korpiklaani
- The End Is Beautiful – Echolyn
- Fieldmusic
- Guero – Beck
- Omar Rodriguez – Omar Rodriguez Lopez
- Akron/Family
- Angel Of Retribution – Judas Priest
- As Is Now – Paul Weller
- Return The Gift – Gang Of Four
- La Foret – Xiu Xiu
- Paradise Lost
- Into The Woods – Malcolm Middleton
Plaat van het jaar 2005