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. TV On The Radio: Return To Cookie Mountain (4AD)
  4. Shit And Shine: Jealous of Shit and Shine (Riot Season)
  5. Keith Fullerton Whitman: Lisbon (Kranky)
    7/10
  6. Subtle: For Hero For Fool (Astralwerks)
  7. Liars: Drum's Not Dead (Mute)
  8. KTL: KTL (Editions Mego)
  9. Grails: Black Tar Prophecies Vol's 1, 2, & 3 (Important, 2006)
  10. Fred Frith: Impur (ReR)
  11. White Flight: White Flight (Range Life)
  12. Fiery Furnaces: Bitter Tea (Fat Possum)
  13. Volcano The Bear: Classic Erasmus Fusion (Beta-Lactam Ring)
  14. Boxhead Ensemble: Nocturnes (Atavistic)
  15. Fucked Up: Hidden World (Jade Tree)
  16. Erdem Helvacioglu: Altered Realities (New Albion)
  17. Christina Carter: Electrice (Kranky)
  18. Man Man: Six Demon Bag (Ace Fu)
  19. Shogun Kunitoki: Tasankokaiku (Fonal)
  20. Loscil: Plume (Kranky)
  21. Beirut: Gulag Orkestar (BaDaBing)
  22. Angel: In Transmediale (Oral)
  23. Ooioo: Taiga (Thrill Jockey)
  24. Daniel Higgs: Ancestral Songs (Holy Mountain)
  25. Brightblack Morning Light: Brightblack Morning Light (Matador)
  26. Scott Walker: Drift (4AD)
  27. Alejandro Escovedo: The Boxing Mirror (Back Porch)
  28. Tarentel: Ghetto Beats On The Surface Of The Sun (The Music Fellowship)
  29. Built To Spill: You In Reverse (Warner Bros)
  30. Clipse: Hell Hath No Fury (Star Trak)
  31. Burial: Burial (Hyperdub)
  32. Avarus: II (HP Cycle)
  33. Black Boned Angel: Bliss And Void Inseparable (20 Buck Spin)
  34. Machinefabriek: Marijn (Lampse)
  35. Ruins Of Beverast: Rain Upon The Impure (Van)
  36. Shearwater: Palo Santo (Misra)
Playlist
  1. Fiery Furnaces: The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry
  2. Beirut: Postcards From Italy
  3. Fiery Furnaces: Bitter Tea
  4. Black Heart Procession: The Spell
  5. Cursive: Dorothy at Forty
  6. Velvet Teen: Gyzmkid
  7. Fiery Furnaces: Nevers
  8. Cursive: At Conception
  9. Fucked Up: Crusades
  10. Slow Learner: Martyr
  11. Yo La Tengo: Point and Shoot
  12. Woven Hand: Dirty Blue
  13. Comets On Fire: Holy Teeth
  14. Built To Spill: Wherever You Go
  15. Ooioo: Ioa
  16. Asobi Seksu: Thursday
  17. Band Of Horses: The Funeral
  18. Dresden Dolls: Shores Of California
  19. Band Of Horses: Great Salt Lake
  20. M Ward: Right In The Head
  21. Sloan: Who Taught You to Live Like That
  22. Beach House: Apple Orchard
  23. Bat For Lashes: Horse And I
  24. Bug: Jah War
  25. Gnarls Barkley: Crazy
  26. Snow Patrol: Chasing Cars

Extended tracks
  1. Joanna Newsom: Only Skin
  2. Shit And Shine: Practicing To Be A Doctor
  3. LCD Soundsystem: 45:33
  4. Angel: In Transmediale
  5. Joanna Newsom: Emily
  6. Carla Bozulich: Evangelista I
  7. Keith Fullerton Whitman: Lisbon
  8. Fred Frith: Impur
  9. Joanna Newsom: Sawdust & Diamonds
  10. KTL: Estranged
  11. Mono: Moonlight
  12. Ooioo: Sai
  13. Kayo Dot: On Limpid Form
  14. Built To Spill: Goin' Against Your Mind
  15. Sunn O))): Bathory Erzebet
  16. Black Boned Angel: Bliss And Void Inseparable
  17. Ricardo Villalobos: Fizheuer Zieheuer
  18. Daevid Allen, Steve Hillage, etc: Glissando Orchestra
  19. Shit And Shine: Toilet Door Tits
  20. Boxhead Ensemble: Noctune 10
  21. KTL: Forest Floor
  22. Six Organs of Admittance: River Of Transfiguration
  23. Necks: Fatal
  24. Decemberists: The Mariner's Revenge Song
  25. Fred Frith: The Happy End Problem
  26. P.G. Six: The Book Of Rayguns
  27. Wolf Eyes: Rationed Rot
  28. James Blackshaw: Elk With Jade Eyes
  29. Scott Walker: Cue
  30. Oneida: Up With People
  31. Town And Country: Up Above
  32. Jan Jelinek: Happening Tone
  33. Charalambides: Black Bed Blues
  34. Loscil: Charlie
  35. Ricardo Villalobos: Ichso
  36. Acid Mothers Temple: Love Electrique
  37. Scott Walker: Clara
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)

By country:

Britain

Germany
Japan

Rest of Europe
Australia

Canada

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