Best of Rock 2006
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8/10
- Joanna Newsom: Ys (Drag City)
7.5/10
- Carla Bozulich: Evangelista (Constellation)
- Ben Frost: Theory Of Machines (Bedroom Community)
- Natural Snow Buildings: The Dance of the Moon and the Sun (Students of Decay)
- TV On The Radio: Return To Cookie Mountain (4AD)
- Shit And Shine: Jealous of Shit and Shine (Riot Season)
- Keith Fullerton Whitman: Lisbon (Kranky)
- Wolves In The Throne Room: Diadem Of 12 Stars (Vendlus)
- Warhammer 48K: An Ethereal Oracle (Permanent)
7/10
- Julianna Barwick: Sanguine (self-released)
- Subtle: For Hero For Fool (Astralwerks)
- Liars: Drum's Not Dead (Mute)
- KTL: KTL (Editions Mego)
- Sic Alps: Pleasures And Treasures (Animal Disguise)
- Woven Hand: Mosaic (Sounds Familyre)
- Grails: Black Tar Prophecies Vol's 1, 2, & 3 (Important, 2006)
- Fred Frith: Impur (ReR)
- White Flight: White Flight (Range Life)
- Fiery Furnaces: Bitter Tea (Fat Possum)
- Shogun Kunitoki: Tasankokaiku (Fonal)
- Volcano The Bear: Classic Erasmus Fusion (Beta-Lactam Ring)
- Boxhead Ensemble: Nocturnes (Atavistic)
- Black Angels: Passover (Light In The Attic)
- Fucked Up: Hidden World (Jade Tree)
- Erdem Helvacioglu: Altered Realities (New Albion)
- Christina Carter: Electrice (Kranky)
- Man Man: Six Demon Bag (Ace Fu)
- Loscil: Plume (Kranky)
- Beirut: Gulag Orkestar (BaDaBing)
- Angel: In Transmediale (Oral)
- Ooioo: Taiga (Thrill Jockey)
- Grizzly Bear: Yellow House (Warp)
- Daniel Higgs: Ancestral Songs (Holy Mountain)
- Brightblack Morning Light: Brightblack Morning Light (Matador)
- Scott Walker: Drift (4AD)
- A Broken Consort: The Shape Leaves (Sustain-Release)
- Black To Comm: Ruckwarts Backwards (Dekorder)
- Final Fantasy: He Poos Clouds (Blocks)
- Skullflower: Tribulation (Crucial Blast)
- Alejandro Escovedo: The Boxing Mirror (Back Porch)
- Tarentel: Ghetto Beats On The Surface Of The Sun (The Music Fellowship)
- Built To Spill: You In Reverse (Warner Bros)
- Clipse: Hell Hath No Fury (Star Trak)
- Burial: Burial (Hyperdub)
- Avarus: II (HP Cycle)
- Black Boned Angel: Bliss And Void Inseparable (20 Buck Spin)
- Machinefabriek: Marijn (Lampse)
- Ruins Of Beverast: Rain Upon The Impure (Van)
- Shearwater: Palo Santo (Misra)
- Ametsub: Linear Cryptics (Progressive Form)
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Playlist
- Fiery Furnaces: The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry
- Beirut: Postcards From Italy
- Fiery Furnaces: Bitter Tea
- Sic Alps: I Am Grass
- Black Heart Procession: The Spell
- Cursive: Dorothy at Forty
- Julianna Barwick: Red Tit Warbler
- Velvet Teen: Gyzmkid
- Fiery Furnaces: Nevers
- Woven Hand: Swedish Purse
- Man Man: Engrish Bwudd
- Cursive: At Conception
- Black Angels: Young Men Dead
- Fucked Up: Crusades
- Slow Learner: Martyr
- Yo La Tengo: Point and Shoot
- Woven Hand: Dirty Blue
- Crystal Castles: Alice Practice
- Comets On Fire: Holy Teeth
- Built To Spill: Wherever You Go
- Ooioo: Ioa
- Asobi Seksu: Thursday
- Band Of Horses: The Funeral
- Black Angels: The Sniper At The Gates Of Heaven
- Dresden Dolls: Shores Of California
- Band Of Horses: Great Salt Lake
- M Ward: Right In The Head
- Sloan: Who Taught You to Live Like That
- Man Man: Black Mission Goggles
- Beach House: Apple Orchard
- Bat For Lashes: Horse And I
- Bug: Jah War
- Neko Case: John Saw That Number
- Gnarls Barkley: Crazy
- Snow Patrol: Chasing Cars
- Casiotone For The Painfully Alone: Scattered Pearls
- Grizzly Bear: Lullabye
- Jabladav: Zarqawi Mortus
- Final Fantasy: This Lamb Sells Condos
- Shogun Kunitoki: Daniel
- Rodrigo & Gabriela: Ixtapa
Extended tracks
- Joanna Newsom: Only Skin
- LCD Soundsystem: 45:33
- Shit And Shine: Practicing To Be A Doctor
- Natural Snow Buildings: Felt Presence Ghostly Humming
- Ben Frost: Stomp
- Angel: In Transmediale
- Joanna Newsom: Emily
- Carla Bozulich: Evangelista I
- Keith Fullerton Whitman: Lisbon
- Fred Frith: Impur
- Joanna Newsom: Sawdust & Diamonds
- KTL: Estranged
- Shit And Shine: Toilet Door Tits
- Mono: Moonlight
- Ooioo: Sai
- Kayo Dot: On Limpid Form
- Built To Spill: Goin' Against Your Mind
- Sunn O))): Bathory Erzebet
- Black Boned Angel: Bliss And Void Inseparable
- Ricardo Villalobos: Fizheuer Zieheuer
- Daevid Allen, Steve Hillage, etc: Glissando Orchestra
- Boxhead Ensemble: Noctune 10
- KTL: Forest Floor
- Six Organs of Admittance: River Of Transfiguration
- Necks: Fatal
- Wolves In The Throne Room: Diadem Of 12 Stars
- Decemberists: The Mariner's Revenge Song
- Fred Frith: The Happy End Problem
- P.G. Six: The Book Of Rayguns
- Mountains: Hundred Acre
- Wolf Eyes: Rationed Rot
- James Blackshaw: Elk With Jade Eyes
- Scott Walker: Cue
- Oneida: Up With People
- Town And Country: Up Above
- Jan Jelinek: Happening Tone
- Charalambides: Black Bed Blues
- Skullflower: Lost In The Blackened Gardens
- Loscil: Charlie
- Ricardo Villalobos: Ichso
- Acid Mothers Temple: Love Electrique
- Gog: Noriah Mills
- Silvester Anfang: Demonische Agricultuur
- Scott Walker: Clara
- Peste Noire: Phalenes Et Pestilence - Salvatrice Averse
- Prurient: Earthworks/ Buried In Secret
- Russian Circles: You Already Did
- Ametsub: Green Oeuvre
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Jazz
- Acoustic Ladyland: Skinny Grinn (Babel)
- Territory Band: Collide (Okkadisc)
- Kenny Garrett: Beyond the Wall
- Tomasz Stanko: Lontano
- Zeena Parkins: Necklace
- Andrew Hill: Time Lines
- Dave Holland: Critical Mass
- Paul Motian: Garden of Eden
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