Top 10 Albums + 25 More + 25 Songs

rkallerud — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:31:21 GMT

Panda Bear: Person Pitch Recommended tracks: Bros, Good Girl / Carrots, Ponytail

Radiohead: In Rainbows Recommended tracks: Reckoner, Bodysnatchers, All I Need, House of Cards, Jigsaw Falling into Place

Battles: Mirrored Recommended tracks: Ddiamondd, Rainbow

The Besnard Lakes: The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse Recommended tracks: And You Lied to Me, Devastation

The Arcade Fire: Neon Bible Recommended tracks: Keep the Car Running, Intervention, The Well and the Lighthouse, No Cars Go

LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver Recommended tracks: Someone Great, New York I Love You, All My Friends

Deerhoof: Friend Opportunity Recommended tracks: +81, Believe E.S.P., Matchbook Seeks Maniac

The Shins: Wincing the Night Away Recommended tracks: Sleeping Lessons, Australia, Phantom Limb, Sealegs

!!!: Myth Takes Recommended tracks: Must Be the Moon, Heart of Hearts, Sweet Life, Yadnus, Bend Over Beethoven

Explosions in the Sky: All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone Recommended tracks: Catastrophe and the Cure

25 more recommended albums (with song highlights): Winterpills: The Light Divides (Hide Me, Broken Arm), Björk: Volta (Wanderlust, The Dull Flame of Desire, Innocence), Menomena: Friend and Foe (The Pelican, Wet & Rusting, Air Aid), Bat for Lashes: Fur and Gold (The Wizard, Prescilla), Band of Horses: Cease To Begin, Wilco: Sky Blue Sky (Impossible Germany), Tegan & Sara: The Con (The Con, Back in Your Head), The Last Town Chorus: Wire Waltz (Wire Waltz, Modern Love, Understanding), Pelle Carlberg: In a Nutshell (Pamplona, I Love You, You Imbecile), Yeasayer: All Hour Cymbals (2080, Sunrise, Wait for the Summer), The Avett Brothers: Emotionalism (Shame, Paranoia in B♭ Major), M.I.A.: Kala (Bamboo Banger, Jimmy), Charlotte Gainsbourg: 5:55 (5:55, The Songs That We Sing, Jamais), Dolorean: You Can't Win (Beachcomber Blues, What One Bottle Can Do), Voxtrot: Voxtrot (Kid Gloves, Steven), Modest Mouse: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Dashboard), Feist: The Reminder (1 2 3 4, I Feel It All), Les Savy Fav: Let's Stay Friends (Pots and Pans), Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha (Plasticities, Heretics, Dark Matter), Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: 100 Days, 100 Nights (Humble Me), PJ Harvey: White Chalk (The Piano), Okkervil River: The Stage Names, Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam (For Reverend Green), Rihanna: Good Girl Gone Bad (Umbrella, Shut Up and Drive, Rehab), Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Gronlandic Edit, A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger, The Past Is a Grotesque Animal)

25 great songs from albums that didn't make the list: Apostle of Hustle: National Anthem of Nowhere, Apparat: Hailin from the Edge, The Apples in Stereo: 7 Stars, Bears: You Can Tell, Biirdie: Him, The Bird and The Bee: F*cking Boyfriend, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Weapon of Choice, BOAT: I Really, Really Think You Should Rethink Your Life, Brakes: No Return, Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew: F-cked Up Kid, The Brunettes: Her Hairagami Set, The Foundry Field Recodings: Transistor Kids, Freezepop: Do You Like Boys, Grizzly Bear: He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss), Interpol: Rest My Chemistry, Lewis & Clarke: Before It Breaks You, Moon Babies: Weekend a-Go-Go, The Narrator: Surf Jew, The New Pornographers: Myriad Harbor, Rufus Wainwright: Going to a Town, Soko: I'll Kill Her, Spoon: The Underdog, Thurston Moore: Honest James, Travels: The Smell of Kerosene, Vampire Weekend: Oxford Comma

Favorites of '06

rkallerud — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:12:24 GMT

Just a quick rundown of my top 10 albums for 2006:

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped Band of Horses - Everything All the Time The Decemberists - The Crane Wife Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones Cat Power - The Greatest The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth Danielson - Ships Imaad Wasif - Imaad Wasif Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther Mogwai - Mr. Beast

And a handful of honorable mentions: Bob Dylan - Modern Times, Grizzly Bear - Yellow House, Juana Molina - Son, The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes, Cansei de Ser Sexy - Cansei de Ser Sexy, Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, The Scourge of the Sea - Make Me Armored, Rocky Votolato - Makers, Psapp - The Only Thing I Ever Wanted, Two Gallants - What the Toll Tells, Joanna Newsom - Ys, M. Ward - Post-War, Foundry Field Recordings - Prompts/Miscues, The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely

So far in 2007, even though I've only heard four tracks, Deerhoof is at the top of list, with The Shins trailing by a nose.

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Top 10 Albums + 25 More + 25 Songs

Favorites of '06