Tops 2006

As usual. Late. Here goes anyway.

oh! six. Top Records.

adem - love and other planets
aloha - some echoes
ellen allien + apparat - orchestra of bubbles
futureheads - news and tributes
grizzly bear - yellow house
hot chip - the warning
mew - and the glass-handed kites*
subtle - for hero for fool
whitest boy alive - dreams
wilderness - vessel states

album the would make my top ten if i hadn't done a bunch of work for them:
dirty on purpose - hallelujah sirens

just behind the pack:
phoenix - it's never been like that
the big sleep - son of the tiger
christopher willits - surf boundaries
joe lally - there to here
the evens - get evens

reissues:
au pairs - stepping out of line: the anthology
this heat - s/t (although they did re-release everything in a box set format)
josef k - entomology (thanks domino! their first official u.s. release!)
siouxsie and the banshees - deluxe re-issues
talking heads - deluxe re-issues

mix/comps: four-tet - dj kicks

box: tortoise - lazarus taxon

ep / single:
tokyo police club - a lesson in crime ep
beach house - s/t
model/actress - s/t YOW! DAVID FUCKING YOW! ex-BRAINIAC! WOO!

eric's musical savior of the year: e-music
the cerberus of my soul: new releases legally downloaded -- sometimes well in advance of physical "street date;" shit impossible to find-- supposedly still in print, now available to fill my collection coffer without digging, import prices, or adding physical records to the overflowing piles; and finally alleviation of the guilt i feel when i illegally download music. totally recommended for price point and selection. woo! let me recommend you, so i can get some free downloads!

anticipated records of the year oh-seven!:
!!! - myth takes
stars of the lid - and their refinement of the decline
ted leo - living with the living
do make say think - you, you're a history in rust
low - drums and guns
explosions in the sky - all of a sudden i miss everyone
new chavez material? (a boy can dream right?)

and hey, eric! don't forget about these at the end of 2007
'cuz they're already out this year!

menomena - friend and foe
deerhoof - friend opportunity
of montreal - hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?
deerhunter - cryptograms

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*so it really came out in 2005. i don't give a fuck.