Best Albums of 2006

(all lists in no particular order, we’re not that anal here)

SLM
MYLO - Destroy Rock ‘n’ Roll
Although originally released in 2004, it made it’s stateside debut earlier this year. A must for fans of the funky-break DJ’s like David Holmes.

Grandaddy - Just Like the Fambly Cat
A great Epitaph for a band who were brilliantly inconsistant and a wonderful companion piece to the Sophtware Slump.

Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Populist choice for sure, but damn if it isn’t bloody catchy.

Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song
More excellent art-punk-pop from Sweden who seem to effortlessly birth these great bands every 9 months.

Easy Star All Stars - Radiodread
Just to prove how great OK Computer actually is you have to hear it in Reggae-Dub mode… stunning.

Podcast - The Ricky Gervais Show
Typically British humor and arguably the funniest podcast ever. Check out the three free podcasts on iTMS.

Lily Allen - Alright Still/Nan You’re A Window Shopper
The foulmouthed mockney daughter of Keith Allen has released a debut album of sheer poptastic brilliance. Think Mike Skinner with PMS. A mix of pop-ska hip-hop done by Future Cut and acerbic and witty lyrics by Allen make this a refreshing listen. Not on the album but on the b-side of single LDN is the funniest track I have heard in a long time, a parody of 50 Cent’s “Window Shopper”, called “Nan, You’re a Window Shopper”.

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Jules
Ghostland Observatory - Paparazzi Lightening
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
Tapes ‘n Tapes - The Loon
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Calexico - Garden Ruin

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Kevin
Black Keys - Magic Potion
Black Angels - Passover
Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mtn
The Thermals - The Body, the Blood and the Machine (Listen to A Pillar of Salt)
Calexico - Garden Ruin
Wax Taylor - Tales of the Forgotton Melodies
Tapes n Tapes - The Loon
The Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control
Band of Horses - Everything all the Time
Bobby Bare Jr. - The Longest Meow

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Thomas
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain (They sell ringtones!)
Ghostface Killer - Fishscale
Destroyer - Destroyer’s Rubies
I’m From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce You To My Friends
Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth of a Beast

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Andy
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Cursive - Happy Hallow
Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
The Streets - Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living

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Matt
Ratatat - Classics
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll (Watch Formed a Band)
We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor
Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming (Listen to Shut Up I Am Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings)
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (Watch The View from the Afternoon)
Boat - Songs That You Might Not Like

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