Solitude 2005 Awards

Yes, it's time for the Solitude 2005 awards! We've already covered the best film of 2005 but there are plenty of other awards going:Best album of 2005 - Being the first year for a while that Biffy haven't released anything and The Mars Volta album being good but not great, I think there is only one clear choice for best album: "Very Fast, Very Dangerous" by the excellent Reuben. Mixing some chunky British rock with some tight lyrics and sprinklings of pop mentality, this album has everything any fan of modern rock needs. Each of the singles showed off a different part of the band, and the album as a whole is just brilliantly pitched.Best new band - This means the best band I heard for the first time last year and is pretty tricky. I think the best band I heard last year were the impossibly tight Caretaker, a band with some incredible dynamics and transitions. I highly recommend their "Signs Of Four EP" (incidentally the best EP of 2005). That said, the industry being what it is, ...

02:21:41 January 7, 2006, Saturday (PST) Source: Solitude

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