2006 album reviews
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| Artist | Album Title | (Label) | Genre | Rat. |
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| Ratings: 10=best rock album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan |
| A Hawk And A Hacksaw | The Way The Wind Blows | (Leaf) | ethnic | 5/10 |
| Barry Adamson | Stranger On The Sofa | (Central Control) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Agalloch | Ashes Against the Grain | (End) | folk-metal | 7/10 |
| Ahleuchatistas | What You Will | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Ilyas Ahmed | Yahan Aur Wahan | (self) | free-folk | 6/10 |
| Ilyas Ahmed | Century Of Moonlight | (Time-Lag) | free-folk | 6.5/10 |
| Ilyas Ahmed | Towards The Night | (self) | free-folk | 7/10 |
| Jessica Bailiff | Feels Like Home | (Kranky) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Eef Barzalay | Bitter Honey | (SpinArt) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Beirut | Gulag Orkestar | (BaDaBing) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Belbury Poly | The Owl's Map | (Ghost Box) | synth-pop | 5/10 |
| Belle And Sebastian | The Life Pursuit | (Matador) | Brit-pop | 5/10 |
| Bird Show | Lightning Ghost | (Kranky) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Frank Black | Fast Man Raider Man | (Back Porch) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Black Heart Procession | The Spell | (Touch & Go) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Richard Bone | Vespera | (Quirkworks) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Boris | Dronevil Final | (Misanthropic Agenda) | drone | 6/10 |
| Boxhead Ensemble | Nocturnes | (Atavistic) | instrumental | 7/10 |
| Carla Bozulich | Evangelista | (Constellation) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Brightblack | Morning Light | (Matador) | psych folk | 7/10 |
| Thomas Buckner | Totem | (Mutable) | avantgarde | 7/10 |
| Built To Spill | You In Reverse | (Warner Bros) | noise-rock | 7/10 |
| Dale Cooper Quartet | Parole De Navarre | (Diesel Combustible) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Daughters | Hell Songs | (Hydra Head) | noise-rock | 6/10 |
| Dear Hunter | Act I - The Lake South The River North | (Triple Crown) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Der Blutharsch | When Did Wonderland End? | (Tesco) | gothic | 6/10 |
| Destroyer | Destroyer's Rubies | (Merge) | pop | 6/10 |
| DJ Olive | Sleep | (Room40) | ambient | 6.5/10 |
| Don Caballero | World Class Listening Problem | (Relapse) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| Toby Driver | In the L..L..Library Loft | (Tzadik) | songwriter | 8/10 |
| Bob Dylan | Modern Times | (Columbia) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| East River Pipe | What Are You On | (Merge) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Envy | Insomniac Doze | (Rock Action) | screamo | 7/10 |
| Erase Errata | Nightlife | (Kill Rock Stars) | funk-punk | 7/10 |
| Alejandro Escovedo | The Boxing Mirror | (Back Porch) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Excepter | Alternation | (5RC) | psych-tronica | 6/10 |
| Lupe Fiasco | Food & Liquor | (Atlantic) | rap | 6/10 |
| Fiel Garvie | Caught Laughing | (Words on Music) | Brit-pop | 5/10 |
| Final | 3 | (Neurot) | industrial | 6/10 |
| Flaming Lips | At War With The Mystics | (Warner) | psych-pop | 5/10 |
| Fred Frith | Impur | (ReR) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| Lisa Germano | In the Maybe World | (Young God) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Grizzly Bear | Yellow House | (Warp) | psych-folk | 6/10 |
| Guillemots | Through The Windowpane | (Polydor) | Brit-pop | 6/10 |
| Sean Hayes | Big Black Hole and the Little Baby Star | (self) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Jim Haynes | Telegraphy By The Sea | (Helen Scarsdale Agency) | glitch | 7.5/10 |
| Tim Hecker | Harmony in Ultraviolet | (Kranky) | electronic | 5/10 |
| Matthew Herbert | Scale | (K7) | electronica | 6/10 |
| His Name Is Alive | Detrola | (Silver Mountain) | power-pop | 6/10 |
| Home | Sexteen | (Home) | lo-fi pop | 6/10 |
| Intelligent Shanghai Mono University | Intelligent Shanghai Mono University | (Subjam) | laptop | 7/10 |
| Islands | Return to the Sea | (Rought Trade) | retro-pop | 6.5/10 |
| Iz | Em | (ReR) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Johan Johannsson | IBM 1401 A User's Manual | (4AD) | synth-pop | 6/10 |
| Daniel Johnston | Lost and Found | (Sketchbook) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Simon Joyner | Skeleton Blues | (Jagjaguar) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Steffen Basho-Junghans | Late Summer Morning | (Strange Attractors) | instrumental | 7/10 |
| Junior Boys | So This Is Goodbye | (Domino) | synth-pop | 6/10 |
| K-Space | Going Up | (Ad Hoc) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Kayo Dot | Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue | (Robotic Empire) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Knife | Silent Shout | (Mute) | electro | 6/10 |
| Lambchop | Damaged | (Merge) | country-soul | 6/10 |
| Lamp Of The Universe | From The Mystic Rays Of Astrological Light | (Astral Projection) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Mark Lanegan | Ballad Of The Broken Seas | (V2) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Liars | Drum's Not Dead | (Mute) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Loose Fur | Born Again In The USA | (Drag City) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Loscil | Plume | (Kranky) | ambient | 7/10 |
| Mammatus | Mammatus | (Holy Mountain) | stoner | 6/10 |
| Mars Volta | Amputechture | (Universal) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Matmos | Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast | (Matador) | electronica | 6/10 |
| Stephen Merritt | Showtunes | (Nonesuch) | pop | 5/10 |
| Minus 5 | Minus 5 | (Yep Roc) | pop | 5/10 |
| Mogwai | Mr Beast | (Matador) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Mr Geoffrey And JD Franzke | Get A Room | (Extreme) | plunderphonics | 6/10 |
| Mudhoney | Under A Billion Suns | (Sub Pop) | grunge | 4/10 |
| Mujician | There's No Going Back Now | (Cuneiform) | free-jazz | 6/10 |
| Naing Naing | Toothbrush Fever | (ReAktion) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Necks | Chemist | (ReR) | instrumental | 6/10 |
| Joanna Newsom | Ys | (Drag City) | songwriter | 8/10 |
| Nimby | Songs For Adults | (ReR) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| Ocean | Aeolian | (Metal Blade) | metal | 6/10 |
| Pauline Oliveros | Lion's Eye/ Lion's Tale | (Deep Listening) | avantgarde | 6/10 |
| Oneida | Happy New Year | (Jagjaguwar) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Paper Chase | Now You Are One Of Us | (Trost) | emo | 7/10 |
| Claudio Parodi | Horizontal Mover | (Extreme) | avantgarde | 6/10 |
| Pearl Jam | Pearl Jam | (J-Records) | grunge | 6/10 |
| Benoit Pioulard | Precis | (Kranky) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Pretty Girls Make Graves | Elan Vital | (Matador) | power-pop | 6/10 |
| Primal Scream | Riot City Blues | (Sony) | blues-rock | 4/10 |
| Prurient | Pleasure Ground | (self) | noise | 6/10 |
| Puppetina | Piewacket | (ReR) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| Quasi | When The Going Gets Dark | (Touch & Go) | power-pop | 5/10 |
| Red Crayola | Introduction | (Drag City) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Robert Rich | Electric Ladder | (Soundscape) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Matt Rogalsky | Memory Like Water | (Xperimental Intermedia) | electronic | 6/10 |
| Ruins Of Beverast | Rain Upon The Impure | (Van, 2006) | black metal | 7/10 |
| Serena-Maneesh | Serena-Maneesh | (Playlouder) | shoegaze | 7/10 |
| 718 | Nowise Assault | (Subjam) | laptop | 6/10 |
| DJ Shadow | The Outsider | (Universal) | hip-hop | 4/10 |
| Dani Siciliano | Slappers | (K7) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Sightings | End Times | (Fusetron) | noise-rock | 6/10 |
| Paul Simon | Surprise | (Warner) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Slow Learner | In There Time They Are Magnificent | (Slow Learner) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Smoke & Mirrors | White Roses Painted Red | (Aural Fixation) | electronica | 6/10 |
| Sonic Youth | Rather Ripped | (Goofin') | noise-rock | 6/10 |
| Sparklehorse | Dreamt For Light Years | (Astralwerks) | pop | 7/10 |
| Spektr | Near Death Experience | (Candlelight) | post-metal | 6.5/10 |
| Stalaggh | Nihilistik Terrror | (Autopsy Kitchen) | noise | 7.5/10 |
| Strokes | First Impressions of Earth | (RCA) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Supersystem | A Million Microphones | (Touch & Go) | dance-punk | 6/10 |
| Thermals | The Body The Blood The Machine | (Subpop) | garage | 6/10 |
| To Live and Shave in LA | Noon and Eternity | (Menlo Park) | noise | 7/10 |
| Tool | 10,000 Days | (Volcano) | grunge | 5/10 |
| Town And Country | Up Above | (Thrill Jockey) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| TV On The Radio | Return To Cookie Mountain | (4AD) | Genre | 7/10 |
| Uzeda | Stella | (Touch and Go) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Tom Verlaine | Around | (Thrill Jockey) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Volcano the Bear | album Classic Erasmus Fusion | (Beta-Lactam Ring) | acid-rock | 7/10 |
| Scott Walker | Drift | (4AD) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| M. Ward | Post-war | (Merge) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| We Are Wolves | Non-Stop Je Te Plie en Deux | (Fat Possum) | dance-punk | 6/10 |
| White Flight | White Flight | (Range Life) | songwriter | 7.5/10 |
| Keith Fullerton Whitman | Lisbon | (Kranky) | ambient | 7/10 |
| Bob Wiseman | Theme and Variations | (Recording Club) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Yo La Tengo | I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass | (Matador) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Neil Young | Living With War | (Reprise) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Zombi | Surface To Air | (Hypertension, 2006) | prog | 7/10 |
| Ratings: 10=best album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan |
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