Top Albums List 2006: Part One

[aekastar]

This list may've been different if I had remembered to bring most my albums with me / had known I'd be here this long. I was in the habit of deleting albums from iTunes as soon as I got it on disc, so it didn't make it easy since I'd do that for an album I really liked as much as for a crap album. there was still one that deserved to be on here regardless of not getting a refresher on it. so, yes, take this list with a grain of salt. the top 5, I think, shall be the most accurate.

20. Duplex - Late Night Driving [clone]
Genre: electro / techno
Sample: Fictional Frequency, Desolate State

19. Band of Horses - Everything All The Time [sub pop]
Genre: indie rock / folk
Sample: Funeral [insound link] + video [on sub pop / quicktime]

18. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House [warp]
Genre: "freak folk" (I hate that term, but everyone else is saying so) / indie
Sample: lullabye, On A Neck, On A Spit [from their site]

17. Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up [Ever]
Genre: indie / pop / mixed ("The Nashville Bjork")
Sample: The Missing Link, Society (accompanied by Lambchop's Kurt Wagner)

16. Mountaineer - When The Air Is Bright They Shine [Type]
Genre: indie / 60s/70s-ish pop
Sample: Ambassador

15. Calexico - Garden Ruin [City Slang]
Genre: indie / alt-country / less mariachi
Sample: Cruel [insound link], Roka

14. Bibio - Hand Cranked [Mush]
Genre: experimental / electronic / folk / similarities to boards of canada
Sample: Quantock, Aberriw

13. Ensemble - s/t [FatCat]
Genre: electro / pop
Sample: summerstorm

12. Appleseed Cast - Peregrine [Militia Group]
Genre: indie rock
Sample: Sunlit Ascending (had been edited), Peregrine

11. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood [Anti]
Genre: goth country / folk / pop
Sample: Star Witness [insound link]


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