vendredi 29 Déc 2006, 13h41m

Well, it is the 29th now so its probably the right time to be doing this, but there are still some to listen to properly (and that haven't quite got here in time) that haven't made the list for that reason. It was a great year overall though, too many great releases flying in from all over the shop. Its too tricky to decide between some (and too much effort), so what I've decided to do is a top 25 and then chuck in sections of good, average, bad, to make it easier. Some will probably get highlighted though. Included will be some splits and EPs, but I've tried to avoid singles (although there are a couple in the list that really needed to be mentioned). In my opinion the releases aren't poor quality (overall - might have a couple of good tracks on them) until after the Plague Songs compilation.

So yeah, best of '06…

1. Camille - Le Fil (UK release)
2. Parks and Recreation - What was she doing on the shore that night?
3. Epic45 - Slides (re-release)
4. Magnolia Electric Co - Fading trails (vinyl)
5. The Wireless Stores - Dust Ghosts
6. Hour of the Wolf - Power of the wolf
7. Boduf Songs - Lion devours the sun
8. Ascalaphe - The Hollander Cafe EP
9. Sparrows, Swarm & Sing - LP II (CD/vinyl re-release)
10. Aluminium - Aluminium

11. Triosk - The Headlight Serenade
12. Scanners - Violence is Golden
13. The Dears - Gang of losers
14. Let's Go Sailing - The chaos in order
15. Imaad Wasif - Imaad Wasif
16. V/A - The World's Rarest Funk 45s
17. Voice of the Seven Woods - Tchantinler
18. Black Cab - Jesus East
19. Mischief Brew - Songs from under the sink (vinyl)
20. Belegost / The Sea Like Lead - Split (12")
21. AFX - Chosen Lords
22. Wow, Owls! - Pee Sout (EP)
23. Unfortunaut - Of here and now
24. Barry Adamson - Stranger on the sofa
25. Goose - Bring it on

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7 Year Rabbit Cycle - Ache Hornes
Amon Düül II - Yeti (re-release)
Asobi Seksu - Citrus
Micah P. Hinson - …and the Opera Circuit
I'm not a gun - We think as instruments
Joan of Arc - Eventually, all at once (vinyl)
Jonah Matranga / Frank Turner - Split (12")
Kind of Like Spitting - Thrill of the hunt (CD/LP)
Letting Up Despite Great Faults - The Movement (EP)
Monkey Swallows the Universe - The Bright Carvings
The One AM Radio / Wind-Up Bird - Night Falls (12" split)
Damien Rice - 9
Super XX Man - Volume XI: A Better Place

V/A - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965-86 (re-release)

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Alpha - Lost in a garden of clouds (part 2)
Awesome Color - Awesome Color
Bat for Lashes - Fur and gold
Blanket Music - The Love/Love Translation
The Bronx - The Bronx II
By the End of Tonight - 3" series
The Decemberists - The crane wife
Ekkehard Ehlers - A Life Without Fear
Elle Milano - Swearing's for art students (10")
Faust - Faust IV (re-release)
Helios - Eingya (vinyl)
Hey Negrita - The Buzz Above
His Name is Alive - Detrola
The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America
The Horse and His Boy - Relics (single)
Incubus - Light Grenades
I was a Cub Scout - We were made to love (3" CD)
Jóhann Jóhannsson - IBM 1401, A Users Manual
Kind of Like Spitting - In the red (LP)
Last of the Real Hardmen - 10,000 Miles
Lotterboys - Animalia
Ian Love - Ian Love
ManyFingers - Our worn shadow
Part Timer - Part Timer
Please Inform the Captain This is a Hijack - Defeat Or Humiliate The United States Of America (vinyl)
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Russian Circles - Enter
Voice of the Seven Woods - The Withering of the Boughs
M. Ward - Post-War
Wire - Chairs missing (re-release)
Woods - How to survive + in the woods
Working for a Nuclear Free City - Working for a Nuclear Free City
Orla Wren - Butterfly Wings Make

V/A - Panama! Latin, Calypso & Funk On The Isthmus 1965-75
V/A - The way we wore

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120 Days - 120 Days
Bazaar - Eden Express
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Ray Davies - Other people's lives
Ray Davies - The Storyteller (re-release)
Decembers Architects - ,Apiary Ennui And Curiosas. The Brew Shakes
Don Caballero - World class listening problem
The Drips - The Drips
Nathan Fake - Drowning in a sea of love
Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55
David Gilmour - On an Island
Chihei Hatakeyama - Minima Moralia
In First Person - Lost Between Hands Held Tight (vinyl)
Junior Boys - So this is goodbye
Leya - Watch you don't take off
Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
Mole Harness - A present from the future
Jason Molina - Let me go, let me go, let me go (LP/CD)
My Architects - Grand Designs
Pipettes - We are the Pipettes
Pyramids - Following the tracks, forcing motion through phases
Quien es, BOOM! - Cast Your Burdens Aside (EP)
Klaus Schulze - Irrlicht (re-release)
Six Organs of Admittance - The Sun Awakens
Super XX Man - X
The Sw!ms - Ride of the blueberry winter
Talking Heads - 77 (re-release)
Tarkio - Omnibus
Tool - 10,000 days
Trapdoor Fucking Exit - Crooked Life, Straight World
The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional (re-release)
United States - Divorce Songs (vinyl)
Various - The World is Gone
Women & Children - Paralyzed Dance Tonight
The Young Knives - Voices of animals and men
Zookeeper - Zookeeper EP

V/A - The Brazilian Funk Experience
V/A - Granny takes a trip

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Steve Adey - All Things Real
Ahleuchatistas - What You Will
Lily Allen - Alright, still…
Ascalaphe - The Hollander Cafe
Au Pairs - Stepping out of line
Black Helicopter - Invisible Jet
The Black Keys - Magic Potion
Bromheads Jacket - Dits from the commuter belt
Camille - Live Au Trianon
Cat Power - The Greatest
Colleen - Mort aux vaches
M. Craft - Silver & Fire
Dashboard Confessional - Dusk and Summer
Dead or American - Ends
Ali Farka Toure - Savane
Catherine Feeny - Hurricane glass
The Flaming Lips - At war with the mystics
The Fuzzy Lights - Improvised Series 2 (single)
How to Swim - The Littlest Orgasm
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the broken seas
Kind of Like Spitting / Lemuria - You're living room's all over me (Split CD/LP)
The Knife - Silent shout
The Late Cord - Lights from the Wheelhouse (EP)
The Long Blondes - Someone to drive you home
Maquiladora - The Gulf (EP)
Maritime - We, the vehicles (vinyl)
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - All the roadrunning
McLusky - McLuskyism
Mexican Cheerleader - Kings and Kings' Hoots
Midlake - The trials of Van Occupanther
Minutemen - We Jam Econo (DVD)
The Mountain Goats - Babylon Springs (EP)
The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely (vinyl)
My Cat is an Alien - There's a flame… sometimes (vinyl)
My Dad Vs Yours - After Winter Must Come Spring
National Eye - Roomful of lions
New Radiant Storm King - The Steady Hand
Phelan Sheppard - Harps Old Master
La Quiete - Tenpeun
Sebadoh - III (re-release)
Sol Seppy - The Bells of 1 2
Swearing At Motorists - Last night becomes this morning
Talk less, say more - Meisha's Morning
Tam - Tam
The Tornados - Telstar
Vetiver - To find me gone
The World Without Magic - EP
Yndi Halda - Enjoy eternal bliss (re-release)

V/A - Revolution Rock: A Clash Jukebox

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12Twelve - L'univers
Aloha - Some Echos
Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals
Ted Barnes - Underbelly
Burial - Burial
Can - Delay 1968 (re-release)
The Czars - Sorry I made you cry
Dave Davies - Kinked
The Fuzzy Lights - Improvised Series 1 (single)
Gregor Samsa - 55:12
Hamfatter - Girls in graz
Peter Hammill - Veracious
Jarvis - Jarvis
Jolie Holland - Springtime can kill you
The Infadels - We are the infadels
Joan as Police Woman - Real Life
The Kooks - Inside in/Inside out
The Like - Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
John Martyn - The John Martyn Story
Mass Movement of the Moth / The Catalyst - 200666 (vinyl)
Scott Matthews - Passing Stranger
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
My Cat is an Alien - Different shades of blue (vinyl re-release)
Okay Paddy - The cactus has a point
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
Rekid - Made in Menorca
Robot Whales - Vehicle
Saturday Looks Good To Me - Sound on sound
The Sounds - Dying to say this to you
Sparrows Swarm and Sing - O'Shenandoah, Mighty Death Will Find Me
Thursday - A city by the light divided
Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Brave and the bold
Transcargo - Momentum
Viking Moses - Crosses
Viva Voce - Get yr blood sucked out
Thom Yorke - Eraser

V/A - Plague Songs

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Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae
Eef Barzelay - Bitter Honey
Beautiful New Born Children - Hey People!
Centro-Matic - Fort Recovery
Cities - Cities
The Gossip - Standing in the way of control
Love is All - Nine times that same song
Raul Midon - State of Mind
Juana Molina - Son
Phill Niblock - Touch Three
Nouvelle Vague - Bande A Part
Pants Yell! - Recent Drama
Peaches - Impeach my bush
Pilots of the Sixth - Demo (single)
Psapp - The only thing I ever wanted
Thriving Ivory - Thriving Ivory
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Scott Walker - Climate of Hunter (re-release)

V/A Evil Nine - FabricLive. 28

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Ambulance Ltd - New English (EP)
Autons - Snakes/Ice Major (single)
DeVotchka - Curse Your Little Heart (EP)
I'm From Barcelona - Let me introduce my friends
Sine Star Project - Blue Born Earth Boy

V/A - Exit Music: Radiohead compilation

—–
Blight - Detroit : The Dream Is Dead - The Collected Works of a Midwest Hardcore Noise Band 1982
Bugz in the Attic - Back in the Doghouse
Caroline - Murmurs

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Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Gigi - Gold and wax
Gotan Project - Lunatico
Jack Johnson & Friends - Curious George
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
Enrique Morente - Sueña la Alhambra
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium (box set)
Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo

—–
The Concretes - In colour
La Guerre des tuques - s/t
Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon

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Some Girls - Heaven's Pregnant Teens
They shoot horses, don't they? - Boo hoo hoo boo

Ok, feel free to agree/disagree with whatever you like, but for the most part I really have made up my mind. Its all opinion at the end of the day and the ones closer to this end just didn't strike the right spot.