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Top Albums 2006
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01 Twilight Singers - Powder Burns
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An intense and powerful ROCK album. Lots of searing guitars and think-as-mud grooves, overlayed with memorable storytelling details. There is a great element of arena-rock façade layered over the top of the album, providing a grandiose sonic setting for an otherwise very personal look at (an often difficult to manage) reality.
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02 Islands - Return To The Sea
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An awesome mash-up of clean pop melodies wedded to uncontrolled wackiness, while somehow maintaining a cohesiveness that makes this a very enjoyable album to listen to. Full marks for putting their hands into so many different styles (calypso, rap, psychedelia, prog-rock, country, ....).
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03 Deadboy & the Elephantmen - We Are Night Sky
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A primal roots-garage-punk album that charges headlong into blues dirges, folk pleas, and foot-stomping bayou boogie numbers. Fueled by a furious hard-rocking guitar/drums overdrive, they keep it interesting by interleaving folkiness, glam-rock, and plenty of swampiness.
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04 Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
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Tremendously textured and rich, the latest from The Voice is a passionate collection of eccentricity and boldness. The stylistic changes are smooth, not forced, and the album has a cohesive and rewarding feel without feeling hemmed in by one musical style. Beautiful.
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05 Beck - The Information
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Nothing new, yet still sounds fresh as a baby. Surprisingly coherent and concise, given the wild mix of eclectic styles Beck loves so much. A real tour-de-force of what Beck does best: boil "today" down to album length and drop a huge bong-hit over the top.
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06 The Little Killers - A Real Good One
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Rock-n-Roll racket punched out in two-minute segments complete with hand-claps, foot-stomps and hollering, bratty vocals. PARTY!
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07 Two Gallants - What The Toll Tells
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A difficult album full of epic songs that revolve around shadowy tortured characters and their circumstances. The song-structures are difficult to latch onto, but the execution and completeness are amazing.
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08 The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
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Roundly engaging collaboration album. Perhaps suffers from a "one of his, one of mine" feeling, but gets better with every listen. Impressively deep instrumentation with each song attempting to cross chasms, even if they may be self-created.
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09 The Minders - It's A Bright Guilty World
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The Elephant 6 sound lives on, filtered through a great mid-70's AM radio sound. Loads of shimmery pop-rock relying on basic songs and instruments to capture the ears.
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10 Soledad Brothers - The Hardest Walk
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The Bros. keep pumping out killer blues-inspired tunes. Stripping off some of the "garage sound", and adding in more flavors to the mix, allows them the space to get down. Sounding a touch like Skynrd-meets-the-Stones, this album kicks you like that immortal "one last drink".
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Other notables:
Kleptones - 24 Hours
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Fabulously complex mash-up, with a touch of everything. If every record released was this good, there'd be no reason to ever take off the headphones. Too damn awesome to be legal.
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Flaming Lips - At War With Mystics (5.1 version)
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Q: Why, oh why, are all albums not released in 5.1 audio. A fairly ho-hum album is transformed into an amazing, inspiring, mind-blistering masterpiece. A: Only the Lips could pull this off...
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Mooney Suzuki - The Maximum Black EP
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Pure garage-rock glory. Paisley-popping like the 60's, glam-rocking like the 70's. Awesome reissue of a previously "only available at shows" EP.
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Persephone's Bees - Notes From The Underworld
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A dreamy mix of 60's pop and 70's glam. Excellently performed, not a note seems out of place.
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Asobi Seksu - Citrus
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Not just a fantastic feedback-drench shoegaze electro-dream-scape, but one also flowing with beatuful pop tunes. Wow.
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TV on the Radio - Escape From Cookie Mountain
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Very, very hard to comprehend and rationalize, this album is nontheless compelling and interesting in a way few major releases are. Awesome live band, BTW.
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The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
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Without overreaching, this album manages to be a complex, songwriter-based exploration into both whimsy and darkness. The prog-based organ jams are almost transcendent.
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Eagles of Death Metal - Death by Sexy
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A party record if there ever was one. Groovy and trashy with some horniness sprinkled on top.
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Screamin' Eric - Shake It!
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Retro-rock from Denmark with a nice punk kick-to-the-balls feel.
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various - This Time Just the Girls, Vol. 2
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Lotsa genres and styles. Even more attitude.
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Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend (Legacy Ed.)
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Beautiful reissue of one of the all-time classic pop-rock records. The addition of the promo-only Goodfriend companion disk redoubles what a historic marker this album is.
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Too late for the list, but definite contenders
The Exploding Hearts - Shattered
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Great singles/rarities collection from a great punk-pop band. RIP (sigh).
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Les Breastfeeders - Les Matins de Grands Soirs
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Great francophone garage-rock via Montreal.
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Thee Emergency - Can You Dig It?
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Gritty, grimy soul-rock with a powerful kick.
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The Little Ones - Sing Song EP
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Super-shiny sing-song pop.
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The Pink Fits - Fuzzyard Gravebox
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A high-energy take no prisoners garage-blues-r&b attack.
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Lee Baby Simms - Mystery Loves Company
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Cinematic, psychedelic, weirdo-noir instrumentals. Mindbending.
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