The Best Rock Albums of 2006

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Best of Rock 2006
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    8/10
  1. Joanna Newsom: Ys (Drag City)
    7.5/10
  2. Carla Bozulich: Evangelista (Constellation)
  3. Ben Frost: Theory Of Machines (Bedroom Community)
  4. Natural Snow Buildings: The Dance of the Moon and the Sun (Students of Decay)
  5. TV On The Radio: Return To Cookie Mountain (4AD)
  6. Shit And Shine: Jealous of Shit and Shine (Riot Season)
  7. Keith Fullerton Whitman: Lisbon (Kranky)
  8. Wolves In The Throne Room: Diadem Of 12 Stars (Vendlus)
  9. Warhammer 48K: An Ethereal Oracle (Permanent)
    7/10
  10. Julianna Barwick: Sanguine (self-released)
  11. Subtle: For Hero For Fool (Astralwerks)
  12. Liars: Drum's Not Dead (Mute)
  13. KTL: KTL (Editions Mego)
  14. Sic Alps: Pleasures And Treasures (Animal Disguise)
  15. Woven Hand: Mosaic (Sounds Familyre)
  16. Grails: Black Tar Prophecies Vol's 1, 2, & 3 (Important, 2006)
  17. Fred Frith: Impur (ReR)
  18. White Flight: White Flight (Range Life)
  19. Fiery Furnaces: Bitter Tea (Fat Possum)
  20. Shogun Kunitoki: Tasankokaiku (Fonal)
  21. Volcano The Bear: Classic Erasmus Fusion (Beta-Lactam Ring)
  22. Boxhead Ensemble: Nocturnes (Atavistic)
  23. Black Angels: Passover (Light In The Attic)
  24. Fucked Up: Hidden World (Jade Tree)
  25. Erdem Helvacioglu: Altered Realities (New Albion)
  26. Christina Carter: Electrice (Kranky)
  27. Man Man: Six Demon Bag (Ace Fu)
  28. Loscil: Plume (Kranky)
  29. Beirut: Gulag Orkestar (BaDaBing)
  30. Angel: In Transmediale (Oral)
  31. Ooioo: Taiga (Thrill Jockey)
  32. Grizzly Bear: Yellow House (Warp)
  33. Daniel Higgs: Ancestral Songs (Holy Mountain)
  34. Brightblack Morning Light: Brightblack Morning Light (Matador)
  35. Scott Walker: Drift (4AD)
  36. A Broken Consort: The Shape Leaves (Sustain-Release)
  37. Black To Comm: Ruckwarts Backwards (Dekorder)
  38. Final Fantasy: He Poos Clouds (Blocks)
  39. Skullflower: Tribulation (Crucial Blast)
  40. Alejandro Escovedo: The Boxing Mirror (Back Porch)
  41. Tarentel: Ghetto Beats On The Surface Of The Sun (The Music Fellowship)
  42. Built To Spill: You In Reverse (Warner Bros)
  43. Clipse: Hell Hath No Fury (Star Trak)
  44. Burial: Burial (Hyperdub)
  45. Avarus: II (HP Cycle)
  46. Black Boned Angel: Bliss And Void Inseparable (20 Buck Spin)
  47. Machinefabriek: Marijn (Lampse)
  48. Ruins Of Beverast: Rain Upon The Impure (Van)
  49. Shearwater: Palo Santo (Misra)
  50. Ametsub: Linear Cryptics (Progressive Form)
Playlist
  1. Fiery Furnaces: The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry
  2. Beirut: Postcards From Italy
  3. Fiery Furnaces: Bitter Tea
  4. Sic Alps: I Am Grass
  5. Black Heart Procession: The Spell
  6. Cursive: Dorothy at Forty
  7. Julianna Barwick: Red Tit Warbler
  8. Velvet Teen: Gyzmkid
  9. Fiery Furnaces: Nevers
  10. Woven Hand: Swedish Purse
  11. Man Man: Engrish Bwudd
  12. Cursive: At Conception
  13. Black Angels: Young Men Dead
  14. Fucked Up: Crusades
  15. Slow Learner: Martyr
  16. Yo La Tengo: Point and Shoot
  17. Woven Hand: Dirty Blue
  18. Crystal Castles: Alice Practice
  19. Comets On Fire: Holy Teeth
  20. Built To Spill: Wherever You Go
  21. Ooioo: Ioa
  22. Asobi Seksu: Thursday
  23. Band Of Horses: The Funeral
  24. Black Angels: The Sniper At The Gates Of Heaven
  25. Dresden Dolls: Shores Of California
  26. Band Of Horses: Great Salt Lake
  27. M Ward: Right In The Head
  28. Sloan: Who Taught You to Live Like That
  29. Man Man: Black Mission Goggles
  30. Beach House: Apple Orchard
  31. Bat For Lashes: Horse And I
  32. Bug: Jah War
  33. Neko Case: John Saw That Number
  34. Gnarls Barkley: Crazy
  35. Snow Patrol: Chasing Cars
  36. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone: Scattered Pearls
  37. Grizzly Bear: Lullabye
  38. Jabladav: Zarqawi Mortus
  39. Final Fantasy: This Lamb Sells Condos
  40. Shogun Kunitoki: Daniel
  41. Rodrigo & Gabriela: Ixtapa

Extended tracks
  1. Joanna Newsom: Only Skin
  2. LCD Soundsystem: 45:33
  3. Shit And Shine: Practicing To Be A Doctor
  4. Natural Snow Buildings: Felt Presence Ghostly Humming
  5. Ben Frost: Stomp
  6. Angel: In Transmediale
  7. Joanna Newsom: Emily
  8. Carla Bozulich: Evangelista I
  9. Keith Fullerton Whitman: Lisbon
  10. Fred Frith: Impur
  11. Joanna Newsom: Sawdust & Diamonds
  12. KTL: Estranged
  13. Shit And Shine: Toilet Door Tits
  14. Mono: Moonlight
  15. Ooioo: Sai
  16. Kayo Dot: On Limpid Form
  17. Built To Spill: Goin' Against Your Mind
  18. Sunn O))): Bathory Erzebet
  19. Black Boned Angel: Bliss And Void Inseparable
  20. Ricardo Villalobos: Fizheuer Zieheuer
  21. Daevid Allen, Steve Hillage, etc: Glissando Orchestra
  22. Boxhead Ensemble: Noctune 10
  23. KTL: Forest Floor
  24. Six Organs of Admittance: River Of Transfiguration
  25. Necks: Fatal
  26. Wolves In The Throne Room: Diadem Of 12 Stars
  27. Decemberists: The Mariner's Revenge Song
  28. Fred Frith: The Happy End Problem
  29. P.G. Six: The Book Of Rayguns
  30. Mountains: Hundred Acre
  31. Wolf Eyes: Rationed Rot
  32. James Blackshaw: Elk With Jade Eyes
  33. Scott Walker: Cue
  34. Oneida: Up With People
  35. Town And Country: Up Above
  36. Jan Jelinek: Happening Tone
  37. Charalambides: Black Bed Blues
  38. Skullflower: Lost In The Blackened Gardens
  39. Loscil: Charlie
  40. Ricardo Villalobos: Ichso
  41. Acid Mothers Temple: Love Electrique
  42. Gog: Noriah Mills
  43. Silvester Anfang: Demonische Agricultuur
  44. Scott Walker: Clara
  45. Peste Noire: Phalenes Et Pestilence - Salvatrice Averse
  46. Prurient: Earthworks/ Buried In Secret
  47. Russian Circles: You Already Did
  48. Ametsub: Green Oeuvre
Jazz
  1. Acoustic Ladyland: Skinny Grinn (Babel)
  2. Territory Band: Collide (Okkadisc)
  3. Kenny Garrett: Beyond the Wall
  4. Tomasz Stanko: Lontano
  5. Zeena Parkins: Necklace
  6. Andrew Hill: Time Lines
  7. Dave Holland: Critical Mass
  8. Paul Motian: Garden of Eden

By genre:

Songwriters

Post-rock
Psychedelia

Electronica

Progressive

Punk/hardcore

Dance
Heavy rock

Instrumental
  1. Erdem Helvacioglu: Altered Realities (New Albion)

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Britain

Germany
Japan

Rest of Europe
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