The Best of 2006
1.
Aloha/Some Echoes
2.
Ghost Buffalo/Ghost
Buffalo
3.
Editors/The Back Room
4.
Tool/10,000 Days
5.
Sonic Youth/Rather
Ripped
6.
Aereogramme/Seclusion
7.
Starsailor/On
The Outside
8.
Maritime/We, The Vehicles
9.
London
Elektricity/Power Ballads
10.
Beck/The
Information
11.
Mutemath/Mutemath
12.
Anathallo/Floating
World
13.
Elefant/The Black Magic Show
14.
Black Tie
Dynasty/Movements
15.
DJ Shadow/The Outsider
16.
Morrissey/Ringleader
Of The Tormentors
17.
Soul Asylum/The
Silver Lining
18.
Zombi/Surface
To Air
19.
Alex
Smoke/Paradolia
20.
Hybrid/I Choose Noise
Other worthy releases (random order): Johann Johannsson/IBM 1401-A User’s Manual; Ellen Allien & Apparat/Orchestra Of Bubbles Marsen Jules/Les Fleurs; Trentemøller/The Last Resort; Goldfrapp/Supernature; Brand New/The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me; The Static Age/Blank Screens; SCSI-9/The Line Of Nine; Now It’s Overhead/Dark Light Daybreak; 8mm/Songs To Live And Die By...; SubtractiveLAD/Suture; The Fags/Light Em Up; Baby Dayliner/Critics Pass Away; Donald Fagen/Morph The Cat; Ben Kweller/Ben Kweller; Fair/The Best Worst-Case Scenario; Emily Haines/Knives Don’t Have Your Back; Rainer Maria/Catastrophe Keeps Us Together; Bibio/Hand Cranked; Bookashade/Movements; Junior Boys/So This Is Goodbye; Deadsy/Phantasmagore; Cloud/Adventure; Persephone’s Bees/Notes From The Underworld; Silversun Pickups/Carnavas; Art Bleek/Between Yesterday & Tomorrow; Azam Ali/Elysium For The Brave; Cut Chemist/The Audience’s Listening; Jafrosax/A New Standard For The Future; Over It/Step Outside Yourself; As Tall As Lions/As Tall As Lions; The Subways/Young For Eternity; Owen/At Home With Owen; Tanya Donelly/This Hungry Life; Radio 4/Enemies Like This; Mogwai/Mr Beast; The Knife/Silent Shout; Osunlade/Aquarian Moon; The Album Leaf/Into The Blue Again; James Figurine/Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake; Outputmessage/Nebulae; Brookville/Life In The Shade; Adem/Love And Other Planets; The Futureheads/News And Tributes; Couch/Figur 5; Dead Poetic/Vices; Incubus/Light Grenades; Eric Matthews/Foundation Sounds; The Classic Crime/Albatross; Loscil/Plume; Heavens/Patent Pending; Luomo/Paper Tigers; Shiny Toy Guns/We Are Pilots; Sparta/Threes; ActionReaction/Three Is The Magic Number; Peaches/Impeach My Bush; Thom Yorke/The Eraser; Basement Jaxx/Crazy Itch Radio; The Emperor Machine/Vertical Tone & Horizontal Noise; The Charlatans/Simpatico; Umbrellas/Illuminare; Alexi Murdoch/Time Without Consequence; Evanescence/The Open Door; Ever We Fall/We Are But Human; Violet Nine/Any Wonder; Alias & Tarser/Brookland/Oaklan; Guitar/Tokyo; Drifting In Silence/Truth; Rekid/Made In Menorca; Grand National/Kicking The National Habit; Eliot Lipp/Tacoma Mockingbird; Stereolab/Fab Four Suture; Nomo/New Tones; Regina Spektor/Begin To Hope; Cities/Cities; Psapp/The Only Thing I Ever Wanted; Serena-Maneesh/Serena-Maneesh; I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness/Fear Is On Our Side; Sickoakes/Seawards; Shawn Colvin/These Four Walls; Jeremy Enigk/World Waits; Tahiti 80/Fosbury; Copeland/Eat, Sleep, Repeat; Audioslave/Revelations; Cibelle/The Shine Of Dried Electric Leaves; Guther/Sundet; Mono/You Are There; The Like Young/Last Secrets; Miwon/Pale Glitter; Duncan Sheik/White Limousine; Magnet/Tourniquet; Pearl Jam/Pearl Jam; Milosh/Meme; She Wants Revenge/She Wants Revenge; OSI/Free; Ezekiel Honig/Scattered Practices; Celebrity/Mining For Twilight; This Day & Age/The Bell And The Hammer; John Ralston/Needle Bed; Rock Kills Kid/Are You Nervous?; Paul Simon/Surprise; The Cardigans/Super Extra Gravity; Brazilian Girls/Talk To La Bomb; New Amsterdams/Story Like A Scar; Cale Parks/Illuminated Manuscript; Secret Machines/Ten Silver Drops; Plain White T’s/Every Second Counts; The Lemonheads/The Lemonheads; Tristeza/En Nuestro Desafio; Red Sparowes/Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun; DeSolé/A Story To Tell; Beth Orton/Comfort Of Strangers; The Strokes/First Impressions Of Earth; New London Fire/I Sing The Body Holographic; Scritti Politti/White Bread Black Beer; This Providence/This Providence; The Stills/Without Feathers; The Twilight Singers/Powder Burns; Placebo/Meds; Yellowcard/Lights And Sounds; Clatter/Monarch; The Format/Dog Problems; The Crystal Method/London Soundtrack; Wechsel Garland/Easy; DK7/Disarmed; Neil Young/Living With War; Saint Etienne/Tales From Turnpike House; Mates Of States/Bring It Back; Amy Millan/Honey From The Tombs; Meg & Dia/Something Real; Janet Jackson/20 YO; South/Adventures In The Underground Journey To The Stars; Zero 7/The Garden; The Goo Goo Dolls/Let Love In; Angels & Airwaves/We Don’t Have To Whisper; Hawk Nelson/Smile, It’s The End Of The World; Sarah Harmer/I’m A Mountain