sgt. - Perception of causality

Formed in 1999 in Tokyo, Japan, the four-piece sgt. utilises a broad range of genres to create their distinctive sound, including that of post-rock, jazz, ambient and improvisation. Using a guitar, violin, drums and bass guitar, the band creates uplifting instrumental compositions comparable to such acts as toe or Anoice. This is their debut mini album, released in November 2005. Beautiful!

Artist: sgt.
Album: Perception of causality
Year: 2005
Genre: post-rock, instrumental

Tracks:
1. 万能感に関する素描
2. 銀河の車窓から
3. 春風
4. Moewe
5. .......

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Mono & World's End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain

A collaboration between two of the greatest bands around: post-rock band Mono and fellow Tokyo native and modern electronic composer World’s End Girlfriend. In 2005 they released "Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain", a five-part album of neo-classical/post-rock music. Dark, sad, moving and beautiful. Massive!

Artist: Mono & World's End Girlfriend
Album: Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain
Year: 2005
Genre: neo-classical, post-rock, instrumental, ambient

Tracks:
1. Trailer 1
2. Trailer 2
3. Trailer 3
4. Trailer 4
5. Trailer 5

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J.Viewz - Muse Breaks

J.Viewz is a multi-genre project of electronic-music producer Jonathan Dagan. This is his debut album, released in 2005 by Deeplay Music. Taking many diverse musicians into the studio, The J.Viewz project started to metamorphosize into 'freestyle chill' – blending elements of soft breakbeat, trip-hop, 2 step, jazz and more, all in a mellow groove. Great!

Artist: J.Viewz
Album: Muse Breaks
Year: 2005
Genre: trip-hop, chillout, electronica, downtempo

Tracks:
1. Under The Sun
2. Muse Breaks
3. Worth Light
4. When Silent It Speaks
5. Your Country
6. Room For Me, Room For Sweets
7. Meantime
8. Sunswoop
9. Feeler
10. Two Steps Away
11. Protected

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Miaou - Make These Things Alright

Miaou are a Japanese post-rock band, formed in 1999 by Tatsuki Hamasaki and sisters Mayumi and Hiromi Hasegawa. Their music is a tuneful, dreamy version of instrumental rock. This is their second full length album, released in 2005. Really good!

Artist: Miaou
Album: Make These Things Alright
Year: 2005
Genre: post-rock, instrumental

Tracks:
1. Intro
2. Future Pavilion
3. A Bird in the Hand
4. Silent Picture
5. Tiger Note
6. Dante
7. On a Sunday
8. When Will You Come Home?
9. Lasa

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People for Audio - And this will be our homecoming

People for Audio are an instrumental band from Montreal, Canada. They play piano-based post-rock with a fusion of jazz, indie and electronica. Not easy to categorise at all! This is their debut album, released in 2005. Really good!

Artist: People for Audio
Artist: And this will be our homecoming
Year: 2005
Genre: post-rock, instrumental, indie

Tracks:
1. To new beginnings
2. Sidewalks and skylines
3. Red skied morning
4. If not now
5. Conversation in a minor tone
6. And this will be our homecoming

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GardenBox - Last Resort

GardenBox is a Greek band formed in 1998 in Athens. Since then, they've been creating and recording their music in their own studio, pursuing an orbit of constant development. With a background of a few individual productions on limited edition, they proceeded with their first official self-titled release in 2003 at Poeta Negra Records. Last Resort is their second album, released by Venerate Industries in 2005. GardenBox's music aims at illustrating the sound of contemporary cityscapes. Through an alternation of electronic and electric sound as the leading vehicle, they attempt to outline the conditions of urban life. With their resonating allusions to current trends of electronica and post rock, they create a sound idiom that is individual, prolific and tence. The compositions are vigorously intreaguing, featuring drastic transitions and peaks. Their structure is at times dominated by layers of electronic sounds and beats, at others by the circular unfolding of melodic passages on guitar. Mind-blowing! Get it now!

Artist: GardenBox
Album: Last Resort
Year: 2005
Genre: post-rock, instrumental, electronica

Tracks:
1. Has Been A Long Time
2. Future Of The Corporation
3. Walkin' Round
4. Global Pessimism
5. It Wasn't Forever
6. Sweet Oblivion
7. Clear As The Truth That Stands Against Them
8. How Did We Get Here?
9. I Can't
10. Pass Over
11. Away

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Last Harbour - Hold Fast, Pioneer

Last Harbour are a Manchester-based band playing rustic, cinematically atmospheric songs that rattle and loom, at once epic and intimate, harsh and beautiful. The seven-piece band operate as a collective of like-minded musicians, all of whom are involved in other artistic work including illustration, photography, writing, filmmaking and recording.

Artist: Last Harbour
Album: Hold Fast, Pioneer
Year: 2005
Genre: folk, melancholic, slowcore

Tracks:
1. China White
2. Circle
3. We Always Said
4. I Come For The Unsaved
5. Corrosives
6. His Cold Hand
7. Part II
8. Your Verses
9. Johnny Row
10. Serpents
11. Silver Leaves
12. The Ties That Bind
13. The Note

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Escape the Day - Ghostless

Escape The Day was a post-rock band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2003, who took influence from acoustic and ambient music. Their unreleased album “Ghostless” (2005) was put on hold due to the suicide of band member Christoph Florian Rehse (1979-2005). After 2005 Escape The Day has stopped, and is forever dedicated to the love and memory of Florian. Their work was described as “Great music for lonely walks, hangovers or just falling asleep.”. Their music can sweep you into its arms of melancholy. Pure brilliance!

Artist: Escape the Day
Album: Ghostless
Year: 2005
Genre: post-rock, melancholic, downtempo, ambient

Tracks:
1. Hallways
2. Ghostless
3. Days
4. The Hour Undone
5. If I Told You
6. Still
7. This Wave's Length
8. Last Words

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Sébastien Schuller - Happiness

Sébastien Schuller is a French artist, classically trained percussionist, who became an accomplished and eclectic multi-instrumentalist over the years, composing and interpreting his own work. He thrives on enhancing sounds of acoustic and natural resonance with touches of electronica. Happiness is his first full-length album released in 2005; he recently released his second album "Evenfall". Fantastic album! Highly recommended!

Artist: Sébastien Schuller
Album: Happiness
Year: 2005
Genre: electronica, post-rock, ambient, indie

Tracks:
1. 1978
2. Weeping Willow
3. Sleeping Song
4. Wolf
5. Ride Along The Cliff
6. Where We Had Never Gone
7. Tears Coming Home
8. Edward's Hand
9. Donkey Boy
10. Alone You Walk
11. Le Dernier Jour

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Fifths of Seven - Spry From Bitter Anise Folds

Fifths Of Seven is a Montreal-based Canadian trio comprised of cellist Beckie Foon (A Silver Mt. Zion, Set Fire to Flames, Esmerine), mandolin-player Rachel Levine (Cakelk with Alexander St. Onge), and pianist Spencer Krug (Frog Eyes, Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Swan Lake). Spry From Bitter Anise Folds is their debut album, a beautiful album that combines perfectly the classical music with experimentation and improvisation and, of course, the Constellation post-rock sound. Highly recommended!

Artist: Fifths of Seven
Album: Spry From Bitter Anise Folds
Year: 2005
Genre: neo-classical, instrumental, post-rock
Similar: Rachel's, Clogs

Tracks:
1. Rosa Centifolia
2. Sweet Grace for Devious
3. Out From Behind the Rigid Bellows
4. Waiting
5. Coeur, Arteries and Veins
6. Echoes From a Wandered Path
7. For You Alone in the Smoldering City
8. Bless Our Wandering Dreamers

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Cue - Bring Back My Love

Cue is a fantastic band from Texas, USA, formed in 2001. Their music was described as “a melodic and dramatic violin/piano/guitar/bass/drum sound that often crests into mountains of orchestrated assault". This is their second full-length album, the first one as four-piece group, released in 2005. The violin and the piano give an amazing feeling. Absolutely brilliant album!

Artist: Cue
Album: Bring Back My Love
Year: 2005
Genre: post-rock, instrumental, experimental

Tracks:
1. I
2. Handful Savants
3. The Sun Has Risen Twice Today
4. Every Wing All at Once
5. The End of the Rule of Nostalgia
6. VI
7. New Year (Pt. 3)
8. Thulsa Doom
9. Granny Suite
10. Bring Back My Love
11. XI

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Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Viaticum

Esbjörn Svensson Trio were a Swedish jazz piano trio, formed in 1990, with Esbjörn Svensson (piano), Dan Berglund (double bass) and Magnus Öström (drums). E.S.T were renowned for their vibrant style, often playing in rock venues to young crowds. They achieved great commercial success and critical acclaim throughout Europe. Their 1999 release "From Gagarin's Point of View" started their international breakthrough, being the first E.S.T. album to be released outside of Scandinavia. Esbjörn Svensson tragically died after a diving accident in June 2008. After this, E.S.T., as a band, has come to an end. This album is a 2005 release, a fantastic jazz album. Highly recommended!

Artist: Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Album: Viaticum
Year: 2005
Genre: jazz

Tracks:
1. Tide of Trepidation
2. Eighty-Eight Days in My Veins
3. The Well-Wisher
4. The Unstable Table & the Infamous Fable
5. Viaticum
6. In the Tail of Her Eye
7. Letter From the Leviathan
8. A Picture of Doris Travelling With Boris
9. What Though the Way May Be Long

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Hood - Outside Closer

Hood is a brilliant experimental band from Leeds, UK. The core of the band features brothers Richard and Chris Adams, joined by various different friends over the years. Mapping the territory of their native Yorkshire in sometimes haunted, sometimes passively angry, but always abstract and melodic song cycles the Hood sound is rural and submerging. This is their sixth full-length album, their most recent release. A pure masterpiece!

Artist: Hood
Album: Outside Closer
Year: 2005
Genre: electronica, post-rock, ambient

Tracks:
1. Introduction
2. The Negatives...
3. Any Hopeful Thoughts Arrive
4. End of One Train Working
5. Winter 72
6. The Lost You
7. Still Rain Fell
8. L. Fading Hills
9. Closure
10. This Is It, Forever

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Zoë Keating - One Cello x 16: Natoma

Zoë Keating is a Canadian cellist. She was a second chair cellist in the cello rock band Rasputina from 2002 to 2006. In her solo recordings (a project called "One Cello x 16"), she uses electronic sampling and repetition to layer the sound of her cello. This is her second album (after the EP "One Cello x 16"). Beautiful music!

Artist: Zoë Keating
Album: One Cello x 16: Natoma
Year: 2005
Genre: cello, instrumental, classical (-ish)

Tracks:
1. Legions (War)
2. Fern
3. Tetrishead
4. Sun Will Set
5. We Insist
6. Legions (Reverie)
7. Frozen Angels
8. Legions (Aftermath)

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