Eddytor's Dozen

In some circles—especially those fond of Coheed and Cambria, Sufjan Stevens, J.D. Blackfoot, and Marty Stuart—2005 just might go down in the annals as the Year of the Song Cycle.

BRAZEN ABBOT
My Resurrection
(Locomotive Music seemingly crypto-Christian Bulgarian prog-metal AOR album)
Stream "My Resurrection" (Windows Media)
Stream "Flyin' Bird" (Windows Media)

GEORGE BRIGMAN
Jungle Rot
(Bona Fide/Solid '70s proto-punk thug-drone boogie reissue)
Download "Jungle Rot"
Download "Don't Bother Me" (m3u)

GEORGE BRIGMAN AND SPLIT
I Can Hear the Ants Dancin'
(Bona Fide '70s–'80s jazz-fusioned psychedelic prog-boogie reissue)
Download "Part Time Lover"
Download "Vacation" (m3u)

DEEP PURPLE
Rapture of the Deep
(Eagle heavy rock album)
Stream "Money Talks" (Windows Media)
Stream "Girls Like That" (Windows Media)

KOENJIHYAKKEI
Angherr Shisspa
(Skin Graft Japanese operatic prog-rock album)
Download "Rattims Friezz" (MP3)
Stream "Tziidall Raszhisst" (Windows Media)

THE SMOKIN' JOE KUBEK BAND
"Served Up Texas Style": Best of the Smokin' Joe Kubek Band Featuring Bnois King
( Bullseye Blues & Jazz/Rounder '90s boogie-blues reissue)
Stream "Can't See For Lookin'" (Windows Media)
Stream "Big Legs" (Windows Media)

MY MORNING JACKET
Z
(ATO/RCA post-hippie blue-eyed-soul soft-rock and indie tweedium album)
Stream "Wordless Chorus" (Windows Media)
Stream "It Beats 4 U" (Windows Media)

MARTY STUART
Badlands: Ballads of the Lakota
(Superlatone Native American art-country album)
Stream "Everett Helper's Song" (Windows Media)
Stream "So You Want to Be an Indian" (Windows Media)

SWITCHFOOT
Nothing Is Sound
(Columbia crypto-Christian post-grunge soft-rock album)
Download "Politicians" (Windows Media Player)
Download "Easier Than Love" (Windows Media Player)

VOIVOD
D-V-O-D-1
(SONY post-prog thrash-metal DVD)
Stream "The Trailer to DVOD1" (Windows Media Player)

Guitars of the Golden Triangle: Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma) Vol. 2
(Subliminal Frequencies '70s Burmese garage-rock/psych-rock/folk-blues reissue compilation)
Stream "(Various Songs)" (Windows Media Player)

Uptight Tonight: The Ultimate '60s Garage Collection
(Big Beat garage-punk reissue compilation)
Download "The Outcasts - I'm In Pittsburgh (And It's Raining)" (m3u)
Download "Denise & Company - Boy, What'll You Do Then" (m3u)