Best of '05 Preview: Out Hud

BAND: Out Hud

ALBUM: Let Us Never Speak of It Again

STANDOUT TRACKS: How Long, Old Nude

DISTINCTION: Only independent group to make it in my top 20 of 2005

SOUND: Think Tom Tom Club meets Kate and Cindy from the B-52s on the way to a Kraftwerk Concert.

YEAR-END CUMULATIVE GPA: 3.6...Out [Hud] standing!