Top 10 (Ok, 13) albums of 2006:

Top 10 (Ok, 13) albums of 2006:

1. Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
2. The Raconteurs: Broken Boy Soldiers
3. Built To Spill: You In Reverse
4. Film School: Film School
5. Beck: The Information
6. Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I am, That’s What I’m Not
7. Band of Horses: Everything All The Time
8. Calexico: Garden Ruin
9. Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped
10. Thom Yorke: The Eraser

11. Phoenix: Its Never Been Like That
12. G. Love & Special Sauce: Lemonade
13. Yo La Tengo: I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

Favorite 2005’s discovered in 2006:

1. Field Music: Field Music
2. Page France: Hello Dear Wind
3. Hockey Night: Keep Guessin’
4. The Coral Sea: Volcano and Heart
5. National Eye: Roomful of Lyons
6. Grizzly Bear: Yellow House

Comments

[duncanw]

Thank you for mentioning The Coral Sea's "Volcano and Heart"... although the album was first released (locally) in 2005, it was remastered and nationally released on Hidden Agenda (parasol.com) in July 2006. It was apparently still so ahead of it's time that it made it onto Showtime, ABC, and Fox TV this year. Anyway, thanks for the mention,
Duncan
ex-of The Coral Sea

[Sandy]

Neko Case's, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. Track: Lion's Jaws.

[Eric Heiman]

Go, go Sandy G!

I don't have an absolute number one this year. But some plum tracks:

TV on the Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain: Wolf Like Me

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Show Your Bones: Turn Into

M. Ward, Post War: To Go Home

Beirut, Gulag Orkestar: Brandenburg

Clearlake, Amber: It's Getting Light Outside

Califone, Roots and Crowns: The Orchids