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Albums of the Year 2006

  
  

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haus of fraser
21:22 / 19.12.06
Ok so no proper favourite album this year- i guess i was spoilt last year with Clap Your Hands, Sufjans Illinois, Broken Social scene etc. to be honest most of this year was spent listening to those great records of last year!

Buut while last year was amazing there were also some cool records this year, so in no particular order, the albums that rocked my year

TV on The Radio "Return To Cookie Mountain

A fantastic record- the track Wolf Like Me is probably my track of the year- i described it before as the record you wanted the Strokes to have made after the first ep (except they didn't- they went a bit shit) with a hook to die for and a super duper gospel-esque middle 8 that flips an uber cool new york televisiony punk rock song into an r n b croon that sounds like something Cee lo would come out with.

Other tracks have David flippin Bowie dueting and "oooo"ing on Province- a bowie -esque track, but so much more than that- my nearest reference is a modernization of the Young Americans sound meets an acid crazed beach boys.

Other worthy songs include I Was A Lover which has scratchy guitars and a looped backwardsy orchestral sample that reminds me of Maxinquaye era tricky- a song that grinds and jumps around with an angsty pained vocal- pretty brilliant.

Other tracks are reminiscent of Prince, Pixies, more Beach Boys, Television- but always sounding like a hybrid of NY cool.

Peter, Bjorn and John "Writers Block"

A late edition for me - i saw them by accident at a work thing and really really enjoyed them- i got the record and i haven't stopped listening to it for the last two weeks. They sound a bit like Simon and Garfunkle meets Elvis Costello, but with an added touch of Beatles, some My Bloody Valentiney sonic guitars and a whole lot of Roger Whitaker Whistling.

The big single "Young Folk" features the singer from The Concetes and is cheesy and romantic with the catchiest chorus- its probably been hijacked and played to death by "Alternative" radio but i still love it.

Lets call it off sounds like Olvers army era Elvis Costello which is as good a recomendation as any and the album opener objects of my affection mixes blasts of guitar with uber melodic scandi harmonies!

Tapes 'n Tapes "The Loon"

A great little record in the Modest Mouse/ Pavement mould- Insistor sounds like pavement playing a Serge Leone soundtrack, hank marvin guitars wurlitzer organ and steven malkmus vocals- indie magic.

The illiad is another favourite track- a hypnotic rhythm powered by acoustic guitar that suddenly goes all fuzzy, mixed with rythmic yelps and a stupidly catchy chorus.

The slow songs are also worth hearing- omaha and manitoba are heartbreakers in the mould of classic pavement and are very special- and also sounded great live! Omaha see's the keyboard player take up his Euphonium for a blast of brass- pretty cool.

More to follow...
 
 
hvatsun
01:58 / 20.12.06
Lets see. I liked...
Beirut -- Gulag Orkestar
Beach House -- Beach House
Grizzly Bear -- Yellow House
Joanna Newsom -- Ys
Juana Molina -- Son
Junior Boys -- So This Is Goodbye
Natural Snow Buildings -- The Dance of the Moon and the Sun
Panda Bear -- Bro's
Talk Demonic -- Beat Romantic
Xiu Xiu -- The Airforce

there's more, but i just posted what was in my itunes.
 
 
Triplets
04:49 / 20.12.06
Ravage Eject!
Rumble Eject!
Boboss Ejeeeect!
 
 
ZF!
10:54 / 20.12.06
Tell us about those bands, hvatsun!

why do you like them?

What's the use of posting a list?

How does it help us or add anything to this thread?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
12:56 / 20.12.06
Can't believe I forget Ronnie Spector's Last Of The Rock Stars, which is on constant play chez Stoat. Okay, so the duet with Keith Richards has this embarrassingly awkward sense of rock'n'roll watching two of its older relatives drunkenly trying to cop off with one another, but other than that it's fantastic. Mainly because she's still got THAT voice, only with a metric shitload more cigarettes thrown in. Utterly stunning bubblegum pop for old people. And There Is An End, where she's joined by PATTI FUCKING SMITH is just intensely beautiful. Special mention, of course, to Girl From The Ghetto, where she takes a dig at a certain ex-husband- "I hope your cell is filled with magazines/And on every page you see a big picture of me". Vitriol doesn't usually sound this pretty.

I have a major transgenerational crush on Ronnie Spector.
 
 
rizla mission
14:07 / 20.12.06
So do I after reading that description; kind of assumed that album would be a bit of a disaster despite everybody's good-will, but that makes it sound great; will have to check it out.
 
 
rizla mission
14:17 / 20.12.06
Insistor sounds like pavement playing Serge Leone, hank martin guitars

I was resisting the urge to play pedantic, patronising corrections man when I first read that sentence and can hold it in no longer...

Sergio Leone was a film director; you are probably thinking of Ennio Morricone, who famously composed the music for many of his films.

Hank MarVin is the chap who played (and perhaps still plays?) the guitar in The Shadows.

Sorry for being such a git.
 
 
illmatic
16:31 / 20.12.06
I'm listening to Fishscale again right now. It just gets better and better. That's what I really like about Ghost's lyrics, the more you listen, the more you uncode.
 
 
ispeakman
18:13 / 20.12.06
I guess "Islands" could be considered a little too poppy by some, I think some of my punk loving friends are a bit horrified I'm that into them.

Yeah, my friends are the same way, I would definitely check them out live though, they seem so fun. I can kind of feel you on liking them better than The Unicorns but some of their tracks are so much more ridiculous and poppy fun (ie. Jellybones, Do The Knife Fight, Unicorns: 2014) than Islands that they make them a little better, in my opinion.

I've been trying to find more about "mewithoutyou"

I can't recommend them enough really, just really awesome music from some really awesome guys. Their newest record, like I said, is their best yet. However, they change so much from album to album it's tough to pick the best.

Panda Bear -- Bro's
Xiu Xiu -- The Airforce

Yeah I'd definitely be interested in hearing what you have to say about these two.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
00:12 / 21.12.06
These end of year lists are problematic anyway, but the start of this year feels so long ago that I'm even more likely to have forgotten albums than usual. Amazon is telling me that Powder Burns, Sexor and The Greatest are all 2006 releases, which seems insane to me in some ways. That's before we even get onto those that have just been realised which I haven't really had time to assess (the new Gwen Stefani and Ciara albums) or even buy yet (Game Theory which I keep meaning to buy ever since hearing it in this weird organic pizza place in NY and being amazed that The Roots could sound so tight, More Fish).

But I think I can do 10, not necessarily "THE" top 10, but I'm pretty sure I have 9 that are better than anything else I've heard and another 9 or so to listen to until I pick one of those. But I'll do them one by one if nobody minds, starting with something really fucking obvious...

The Knife - Silent Shout

There was this advert for... I think maybe Guinness, maybe a car... Anyway, it was a couple of years ago and got shown at the cinema a lot, and it featured some people driving through the countryside at night, looking for a party. One of them sees a glowing little insect flying around by the window, so they stop the car and get out and walk off the road into the darkness, through the woods, following this tiny flickering light, until there are more flickering lights and eventually, there in the middle of the forest, is a party.

I always found that advert a lot more ambiguously sinister than I thought it was meant to be - something Pied Piper about it, something grim fairytale, the sense of being lured off the path into the darkness, away from civilisation... There might be the best party in the world waiting for you, or you might just end up wandering the woods until you freeze to death, or walking into the sea by mistake, y'know?

And THAT is Silent Shout. It's a party in the middle of a forest, hosted by unfamiliar people who enthrall but also terrify you with their pagan ways, and it's also the forest around you, the utterly quiet, pitch black bits... Such a contradictory album because it contains one of the biggest dancefloor stormers of the year, the utterly crazed and joyous 'We Share Our Mothers' Health', and yet so many songs which sound so fragile and tiny and easily crushed ('From Off To On' is barely a whisper). This is also the album that there seems to be most consensus about on the bits of the internet that I frequent where music is discussed. I think that's because The Knife do pop, but on this record they do it in a very... unpop way. So it ends up appealing to everyone. Leading everyone into the dark.

THREE TRACKS YOU MUST HEAR: 'Silent Shout', 'Forest Families', 'We Share Our Mothers' Health'
 
 
Locust No longer
00:47 / 21.12.06
Rizla, have you checked out the Mountain Goats "guest list" for best albums of 2006? I like that he actually digs metal like Regurgitate instead of whatever else people listen to. I have to hear "Get Lonely," but it may be bad for me.
 
 
TeN
04:48 / 21.12.06
I'd have to agree with Xiu Xiu, TV on the Radio, Thom Yorke, Liars, Ghostface, Ratatat, and Matmos
especially Matmos... I'd forgotten all about that one too, but remembering it, it was one of my favorite listens of this year. the songs evolve. take "Rag For William S. Burroughs" for instance - it starts with some noisy electronics and a little New Orleans melody on piano, then 2 minutes in stops completely and starts up slowly again with an orchestra of typewriters and before you know it goes all rhythmic and weird and just keeps growing and growing until it all fizzles out



some stuff that hasn't been mentioned:

Animal Collective - People EP
those first two tracks are some of the most amazing I've heard from Animal Collective in a long while. it reminds me of old, Here Comes the Indian or Hollinndagain-era Animal Collective, but with all the warm, sleepy, gentle goodness of Feels.

Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
well okay, this shouldn't really count since technically it doesn't come out until 2007, but I downloaded a leak of it, and let me tell you, it's great. I liked The Runners Four, but I was a bit worried that they were losing too much of their noisy edge and becoming too pop. but the new album shows them reconciling the two aspects of their sound like they've never done before. it has all the big sounding organ that Milk Man had, all the pop hooks of Runners Four, and all the loud, fast, disonant intensity of their earlier stuff.

Sufjan Stevens - Songs for Christmas
maybe it's just because it's that time of year, but all of these songs make me all warm and happy and hot-cocoa-y inside. compiling the five EPs of christmas songs he's been releasing on his website since 2001, it includes a ton of the classics, along with some original stuff too.
 
 
rizla mission
07:40 / 21.12.06
Rizla, have you checked out the Mountain Goats "guest list" for best albums of 2006? I like that he actually digs metal like Regurgitate instead of whatever else people listen to. I have to hear "Get Lonely," but it may be bad for me.

Yes, John Darnielle sure loves his metal, and I think he writes about it in a more concise and honest way than just about anyone in the proper 'rock press' or whatever too.

I highly recommend his ongoing "Thirty Short Poems About My Favourite Black Metal Band" on Last Plane to Jakarta.

I'd be more hesitant about recommending 'Get Lonely' though; even though I've grown to love it, it's still essentially an album of bleak, introverted singer-songwriter material which lacks a lot of the punch and narrative of his previous work. Not a record that happy or satisfied people will ever get much out of.
 
 
haus of fraser
09:39 / 21.12.06
Sergio Leone was a film director; you are probably thinking of Ennio Morricone, who famously composed the music for many of his films.

Hank MarVin is the chap who played (and perhaps still plays?) the guitar in The Shadows.

Sorry for being such a git.

That will teach me not to post drunk! Thanks for the corrections.
 
 
lekvar
18:57 / 21.12.06
I've been living in a bit of a musical bubble this year. Here in lekvartopia it's still mostly 2005 because it was such a fantastic year for electronica. There have been a couple albums that have made it through the time stasis field though.

The Knife - Silent Shout
They made just about everybody's list this year, and with damn good reason. This was the album I've been waiting for since Laurie Anderson's Mr. Heartbreak, an album that meshes pop* with some really bold and experimental songcrafting.

Ellen Allien-Orchestra of Bubbles
I just found this a week or two ago but it's pushed its way to the top of my list. The dance club roots are obvious, but the butt-shaking, toe-tapping songs have a mellow, contemplative quality while the sparser compositions have a driving beat that makes me happy.

*Loaded term, I know, but I'm having a hard time thinking of a more applicable way to describe the innate catchiness.
 
 
Seth
06:27 / 22.12.06
A couple of glaring omissions on my part. Firstly, agreed with eggs that Burial's Burial should be on there. It's like a quarter speed dubbed out Photek with Select Ambient Works playing over the top.

Also Matthew Herbert's Scale, which held the position that Jamie Lidell's Multiply did the previous year. Very smooth, politicisied melodic funk made out of car horns, coffins and people being sick.

As usual I'm doing the round up of appealing end of year lists. This year I will be drawing upon Barbelith, Wire, HHC, and Pitchfork. Please write about the albums you like and why you like them because I will be using this place like a shopping list and probably won't check out anything that seems unappealing.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
21:07 / 22.12.06
Luke Haines - Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop

After a couple of recent releases which either reminded us how great he has been (Das Capital, Luke Haines Is Dead), and a couple of others that were far from his best (his previous solo albums and the last Black Box Recorder record), this is - yeah, it's a cliche - but it IS a cracking return to form for Haines. 'Leeds United' and 'Bad Reputation' are two of the best songs he's ever written, which is saying something.

Many of his obsessions remain constant, as is true of so many of the best songwriters: the 1970s, Englishness, glam rock, villaint, murder, terrible things happening to children, the forgotten corners of popular culture. He makes it all new, though - 'Leeds United', a sort of companion piece to the novel The Damned Utd by David Peace, mixes in both the dirty playing style of the then champions and their subsequent decline with the Yorkshire ripper, the British weather, and the emptiness of domestic life. In the 70s. In the North. And Haines will still surprise you by knocking off an effective electropop pastiche (the title track), or throwing suddenly heartfelt romantic lines into 'Fighting In The City Tonight', which would otherwise seem to be merely a Kaiser Chiefs pisstake, without: "I'm so in love with you - I'll never fall in love again / I'm a lover, not a fighter - our love I will defend..." All this, and that Gary Glitter lyric. When's that lifetime achievement award going to show up?
 
 
Chaos is relative
22:16 / 22.12.06
Amputechture by The Mars Volta

Tool 10,000 days has a few votes on this forum and I agree that it is an excellent candidate, but this new release from MV is quickly ascending my list of best all time.

I first heard of MV with Deloused in the Comatorium. I was blown away and tried my best to wear that cd out. I bought Frances the Mute the day it came out and wasn't impressed until over 10 listens. Then I saw the light and was even more amazed than I was with the first album.

Amputechture took eight listens. The progressive thing tends to rub me the wrong way at first, but eventually I give in. I don't know how many magicians will read this. The album is a mystical experience. The music is some of the most frantic and beautiful counterpoint I have heard. Some complain that the songs drag out too long, but I think they are more representative of real life experience. The Mars Volta slowly create sonic rewards from melancholy isolation into communal textures and then out right explosion. The lyrics are pure genius. There are incantations, reference to crimes of love, and resolution in waking to the power of the collective through individual fulfillment. Cedric's voice soars and scratches it's way throughout. He knows exactly when to rest and let the music prepare the listener. The music is as well crafted as any symphony I have heard. The guitar ebbs and flows with undeniable virtuosity while maintaining an emotive sensitivity. The bass and keys are perfect compliments. The drums are some of the fastest and most frantic latin style beats mixed with percussive expression every bit as effective as a Dave Lombardo record. The sax is even virtuosic. My advice: Get this album, sit down in your headphones and read along. Don't read ahead in the lyrics as Cedric's delivery is every bit as important as his words. Holy moly this album is one of those special ones. For all you Thelemites or those who have questions about the nature of love and the end of love this is for you. This is the shortest rant I can provide about this magnificent work of art. Not many albums can force me to move. This one certainly does. Thanks for listening.

-LM
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
08:43 / 23.12.06
As 2006 is not yeat finished, I can't possibly do a best-of list yet. There's still nearly eight days left to listen to some new records.

Having said which, Silent Shout may well get my vote for most surprisingly enjoyable album of the year. I think the Laurie Anderson comparisions are apt too.
 
 
Hydra vs Leviathan
17:49 / 23.12.06
The Mars Volta slowly create sonic rewards from melancholy isolation into communal textures and then out right explosion. The lyrics are pure genius. There are incantations, reference to crimes of love, and resolution in waking to the power of the collective through individual fulfillment. Cedric's voice soars and scratches it's way throughout.

Skim-read that and thought you were talking about Heart of the Congos for a second...

I presume "Cedric" isn't Cedric Myton of The Congos tho, as i'm almost certain i would have heard of The Mars Volta if he was (being as i am utterly obsessive about roots reggae in general, and Black Ark era Lee Perry in particular)... for the utterly ignorant, what (approximate) "genre" of music do The Mars Volta fit into?
 
 
haus of fraser
20:04 / 23.12.06
*Threadrot*

Mars Volta = Prog Rock.

Born from the ruins of hipsters favourites 'at the drive in' and certainly not a roots act. A lot of people seem to think they sound like dream theatre ( who in turn are described as whitesnake with a rush fixation)- but maybe they've not heard the new album- there's been a few threads on them the latest is here it also happens to have links to the other relevent threads....

*threadrot ends*
 
 
Haus of Mystery
20:04 / 23.12.06
I always get excited when these lists come round but then promptly realise a lot of the fantastic and inspiring music I've heard this year actually came out in previous years and often decades. And my memory baout things is often piss-poor. But with those disclaimers in place I'd like to mention some stuff that pleased me this year:

Go-Kart Mozart - Tearing Up the Album Chart
This overlooked little gem from arch-weirdie Lawrence Hayward (of Felt, and Denim) came out early in the year I think, and grew to be one of my most played reats of the year. A genuinely odd record played almost entirely on shitty keyboards full of gloriously acidic lyrics and infectious hooks.
It manages to evoke both suburban glam and electro pop without succumbing to archness, and revels in a seedy late 70's/early 80's world of faded flares, glue sniffing and concrete shopping parades. There's affection and loathing alongside a good dose of fucking oddness. I knew I loved it within 30 seconds of the first song wherein a dreamy melodic chorus is made up of the line Here's my glorious chorus.. 'Electric Rock'n'Roll' is like the Velvets played on a Casio keyboard, and the utterly fantastic 'Listening to Marmalade' seems to be about a record collecting, 70's throwback paedophile listening to..well, Marmalade. It's utterly beguiling, infectiously poppy and over in 33 brief minutes. A perfectly skwewed brit-pop album from a seasoned veteran.

Liars - Drums Not Dead
With no prior knowledge of them, based on a chance recommendation I picked this up to be faced with one of the most hypnotically focused records I've ever heard. (Obviously) drum heavy, drone rock with a deeply unsettling heavy atmosphere, this is a mighty impressive album. On first listen I was a little underwhelmed, but perseverence made the disparate songs coalesce into a fantastic coherent whole that demands to be listened to in it's entirety. Very, very good drawing music incidentally.

The Juan Maclean - Less Than Human
Simply the best electronic album I heard this year. Not perfect, but nearly. 'Give Me Every Little Thing' is an instant crowd pleaser with it's P-funk vocals and stomping bass heavy groove, but the best is definitely last - 'Crush the Liberation' and 'Dance with Me'. The latter is one of the songs of the year; detroit minimalism with a lush engrossing atmosphere and vocals from a girl who sounds like she's just been woken from a ketamine coma. It really is a beautiful understated and epic track that never outstays it's welcome.
It's a concise briliant record that jams a lot of ideas and styles into the mix without ever sounding cluttered or confused.

Ghostface - Fishscale/More Fish
Like Seth, I want 'em both in there because the man released TWO messy brilliant hip hop records in 9 months, and is still the Champ. There's been so much Ghostlove this year there's little point in harping on about it.


I'm sure there's a load more, but that'll do off the top of my head. Shit, back to work...
 
 
Chaos is relative
22:42 / 23.12.06
"for the utterly ignorant, what (approximate) "genre" of music do The Mars Volta fit into?"

More often than any other description I have heard the term Space-rock when describing their music. There is definitely a prog influence, but only insofar as they are driven by jazz and classical roots. They also implement electronics ala Pink Floyd or modern drum N bass. There is a definite metal element to it and in my opinion it is not as noodly as Dream Theatre. They use minor keys alot on this album and highlight a strong latin influence. The Mars Volta is a mixture of a myriad of disparate styles/genres.
 
 
Spaniel
11:15 / 24.12.06
Yeah, but I think it would be misleading to suggest that they don't sound proggy - they do to these uninitiated ears, at least.
 
 
Seth
11:51 / 24.12.06
They're undoubtedly prog. Long songs, lots of time changes, wordy lyrics, concept albums. The cap fits perfectly.
 
 
haus of fraser
21:41 / 26.12.06
THREADROT ENDS ON MARS VOLTA (they've already got 3 threads fer crying out loud!)

On with the best of list:

Other notable records for me have included

Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Show Your Bones" a great second album guilty of having two amazing singles that supercede everything else - which imho is only really good.

"Turns Into" is like Patsy Cline with Thursten Moore on lead guitar- a worthy successor to the finest moment on the first album Maps- a true heartbreaker that doesn't really sound like anything else other than YYY's on top form.

Gold Lion the other single is another corker- acoustic guitar melting into a real ripper- Karen O yelping ooo ohh ooo ooo ohhs- it makes you want to jump around and also had a bloody great video.

Late contenders- that i just picked up are

Cat Power "The Greatest"

I just got this earlier this week and its pretty cool- like PJ Harvey fronting a mellow acousticy piano led country meets soul thing- epic ballads and that.

Whether i'll stilll be enjoying it next week is another thing but at the mo i'm really really loving it- a great purchase for 6 quid in amonst the xmas shopping - a rare selfish treat.

Isobel Campbell and Mark Laneghan "Ballad of Broken Seas"

I also only just bought this having had half the tracks as a download- its a kind of modern take on the Tom Waits thing- drunken tales of heartbreak and lost love- nothing like Belle and Sebastion or even what i know about Screaming Trees- stand out tracks include "Ramblin Man'"- an apology of bad behavior touching on tindersticks territory "Honeychild what can i do" is like a lost Jesus and Mary Chain track (think a perfect sequal to Sometimes always...)
 
 
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01:48 / 29.12.06
Wow, 2006 must have been a REALLY good year for music as I can actually do a top ten this year (as opposed to only a top five). In fact, I do believe I got over 20 albums that came out this year, which is a lot for me.

In no particular order:

Whitehouse: "Asceticists"

I did a thread about this album already so nothing really new to add here, other then it's probably the best Whitehouse album yet... until the next one, of course (kind of how it goes with this band).

Ministry: "Rio Grande Blood"

Did I do a thread for this album also? Whatever, it's one of Ministry's top three in my book, just a total unrelenting assault, from the anti-Bush Crass-type cover art to the clever samples to the brutal guitar riffs to Al's voice, in fine snarling form as always. Too bad this band is releasing their final album next year (the conclusion to their George W. Bush trilogy) but better to go out with a bang at least.

Slayer: "Christ Illusion"

Weird, I don't really go for guitar based music unless it's brutal, heavy stuff, and this album, like the Ministry one, fits the bill perfectly. Worth it if only for "Eyes of the Insane".

Wolf Eyes: "Human Animal"

The logical conclusion to their "A Burned Mind" album. Brutal noise.

Current 93: "Black Ships Ate the Sky"

Nowhere near as good as "Dogs Blood Rising" or ""Nature Unveiled" (or, for that matter, "Maldoror Est Mort"), but still an intoxicating, cryptic release.

Gwen Stefani: "The Sweet Escape"

I did a thread about this one too! A good pop album, with clever production and great vocals from Gwen.

Paris Hilton: "Paris"

Another good pop album, never fails to put me into a happy mood. Paris rocks.

Utada Hikaru: "Ultra Blue"

Not only one of the greatest J-pop albums of all time, but one of the greatest pop albums of all time, Utada's finest hour. "Keep Tryin'" always cheers me up when I'm down.

My Chemical Romance: "The Black Parade"

Trendy, I know, but some great tunes on this one. Not enough bands try to rip off "The Wall" these days IMO.

The Residents: "Tweedles!"

It's the Residents doing an album about a perverted clown. What more do I need to say?

Notable:

The Liars: "Drums Not Dead"

The Killers: "Sam's Town"

Keane: "Under The Iron Sea"

Sunn)))) + Boris: "Altar"

SJ: "Threnody For Victims of Ignorance"
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
23:05 / 06.01.07
I like you.
 
 
mrboscombe
12:06 / 08.01.07
various djs and the like telling us their favourites here: http://www.eq-mag.co.uk/reviewoftheyear01.html
 
 
Chaos is relative
01:25 / 01.02.07
In order to redeem myself from my last post. I gotta put 10,000 days up front. Amputechture is a damn fine album, but 10,000 days has more heart than I've heard on any album in a while. So I apologize for slightling Tool and applaud their ability to consistently bring tears to my eyes with this wonderful tribute to Maynard's Ma.
 
 
captain yossarian
22:30 / 01.02.07
best album of the year:

THE DRIFT by scott walker

lyrics and music: supreme quality. dark, strange and like from another dimension. scott walker is doubtlessly an invisible :-)
 
 
Spaniel
11:24 / 02.02.07
Brilliant post. Just brilliant.

I, for one, can't wait to follow that link.

Fucksake, what does it take?
 
 
Sniv
12:23 / 02.02.07
Um, CTRL+c, then CTRL+v in your browser bar? I kid (because I just realised that's two smart-assed messages to boboss in the space of two minutes - nothing personal dude).

On topic - Having had some time to reflect over January, I can unequivocably say that Joanna Newsom's Ys is the best album of 2006 by a country mile. When I'm home from work and a little more relaxed, I will certainly be expanding on this statement.
 
 
Spaniel
12:44 / 02.02.07
"can't wait" not "can't".
 
 
Spaniel
14:42 / 02.02.07
I am teh humourless
 
  

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