Metacritic 75 (best rated 2005 new albums)

Info:  «Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs, and formerly, books. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged» (from Wikipedia). Metacritic 75 is a series of playlists collecting all new albums (no reissues, anthologies, live albums) that get a 75+ aggregated score generated by at least 15 reviews. On running years, the playlist is periodically updated and closed on January of the following year. This playlist collects new albums published in 2005.

Source: Metacritic
Date of publication: 2005
Spotify playlist latest update: 17th August 2016
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Strikethrough albums (13/130) are not available on Spotify. Some albums may be not available in all countries.

Six Organs Of Admittance - School of the Flower (83)
Jennifer Gentle - Valende (77)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney - Superwolf (80)
Archer Prewitt - Wilderness (81)
M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us (76)
Low - The Great Destroyer (82)
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (85)
Marianne Faithfull - Before The Poison (76)
Graham Coxon - Happiness In Magazines (77)
Antony and the Johnsons - I'm A Bird Now (88)
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production Of Eggs (85)
Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust (78)
Hood - Outside Closer (80)
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem (86)
Josh Rouse - Nashville (80)
Iron & Wine - Woman King (EP) (82)
Clem Snide - End Of Love (78)
M. Ward - Transistor Radio (78)
Crooked Fingers - Dignity and Shame (75)
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute (75)
Sam Prekop - Who's Your New Professor (78)
Stars - Set Yourself On Fire (81)
The Kills - No Wow (78)
50 Foot Wave - Golden Ocean (76)
Boom Bip - Blue Eyed In The Red Room (75)
Ash - Meltdown (78)
Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires (80)
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment (78)
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - B-Sides & Rarities (75)
Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze (78)
Out Hud - Let Us Never Speak Of It Again (76)
The Decemberists - Picaresque (81)
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (82)
Brendan Benson - The Alternative To Love (79)
M.I.A. - Arular (88)
Edan - Beauty And The Beat (85)
Beck - Guero (78)
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (86)
Fantômas - Suspended Animation (76)
The Books - Lost and Safe (84)
British Sea Power - Open Season (76)
The National - Alligator (82)
Martha Wainwright - Martha Wainwright (80)
Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins (80)
Mary Timony - Ex Hex (77)
Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep (80)
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree (83)
Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust (81)
Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (85)
Mice Parade - Bem-Vinda Vontade (78)
Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quas (79)
The Ponys - Celebration Castle (77)
Oneida - The Wedding (80)
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday (86)
The Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart (85)
Caribou - The Milk Of Human Kindness (81)
13 & God - 13 & God (80)
Spoon - Gimme Fiction (84)
System Of A Down - Mezmerize (85)
Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration (76)
Belle & Sebastian - Push Barman To Open Old Wounds (89)
Common - Be (83)
Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth (78)
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (88)
Gorillaz - Demon Days (82)
Maxïmo Park - A Certain Trigger (75)
Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic (77)
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love (76)
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (81)
Teenage Fanclub - Man-Made (79)
Annie - Anniemal (81)
Pernice Brothers - Discover A Lovelier You (78)
Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine (86)
Engineers - Engineers (81)
Laura Cantrell - Humming By The Flowered Vine (80)
Ying Yang Twins - USA (United States of Atlanta) (76)
Pajo - Pajo (80)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (84)
Jamie Lidell - Multiply (84)
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (90)
Xiu Xiu - La Foret (82)
Richard Thompson - Front Parlour Ballads (75)
Sons And Daughters - The Repulsion Box (77)
Minotaur Shock - Maritime (76)
The Juan MacLean - Less Than Human (81)
Laura Veirs - Year Of Meteors (80)
Chad VanGaalen - Infiniheart (80)
Portastatic - Bright Ideas (83)
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (85)
Kanye West - Late Registration (85)
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner (85)
The Like - Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? (77)
Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft (77)
Sigur Rós - Takk... (84)
Paul McCartney - Chaos And Creation In The Backyard (78)
Iron & Wine + Calexico - In The Reins (EP) (77)
Brakes - Give Blood (75)
Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow (79)
Broadcast - Tender Buttons (76)
Calla - Collisions (78)
Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary (83)
Blackalicious - The Craft (80)
Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having (77)
The Fall - Fall Heads Roll (80)
My Morning Jacket - Z (90)
Ladytron - Witching Hour (78)
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better (83)
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene (82)
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine (84)
The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers (80)
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike (86)
Dirty Three - Cinder (79)
Deerhoof - The Runners Four (76)
DangerDoom - The Mouse And The Mask (81)
The Constantines - Tournament Of Hearts (80)
The Clientele - Strange Geometry (79)
Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers (81)
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain (88)
Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel (78)
Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase (79)
Animal Collective - Feels (84)
Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering (85)
The Earlies - These Were The Earlies (84)
Neil Diamond - 12 Songs (81)
Kate Bush - Aerial (81)
Akron/Family & Angels Of Light (81)
Madonna - Confessions On A Dance Floor (80)
The Mendoza Line - Full Of Light And Full Of Fire (79)
System Of A Down - Hypnotize (78)
Mary J. Blige - The Breakthrough (76)