My Best List of 2005 with a couple from 2004:

1. Common
   Be


2. The New Pornographers
   Twin Cinema


3. The White Stripes
   Get Behind Me Satan


4. Patton Oswalt
   Feelin' Kinda Patton


5. Low
   The Great Destroyer


6. The Postal Service
   Give Up


7. Alison Krauss & Union Station
   Lonely Runs Both Ways


8. Amos Lee
   Amos Lee


9. Wilco
   A Ghost Is Born


10. The Decembrists
    Picaresque