And this is what 2005 sounded like.

Antony and the Johnsons, I Am a Bird
Now

Sufjan Stevens,
Illinois

The Clientele, Strange
Geometry

Elbow, Leaders of the Free
World

Iron & Wine and Calexico, In the
Reins

My Morning Jacket,
Z

Spoon, Gimme
Fiction

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Clap Your
Hands Say Yeah!

Wolf Parade, Apologies to the
Queen Mary

The New Pornographers, Twin
Cinema

Kate Bush,
Aerial

Okkervil River, Black Sheep
Boy

(Special lyric mention:
“You love a stone, because it?s
dark, and it?s old, and if it could start being alive you?d stop
living alone. And I think I believe that, if stones could dream, they?d
dream of being laid side-by-side, piece-by-piece, and turned into a castle for
some towering queen they?re unable to
know.”)

and many, many mash-ups. And
400 nonstop children’s songs every night for Lucien. (B, I, N, G, O, and here is
how the gentlemen ride and sleep baby sleep…)