Top Music of 2006
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Here is my top 15 list, the only great album missing is Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther, which I only got during the last week of December, but was blown away by as much as any of these top 5.
1. Decemberists - The Crane Wife
2. Mystery Jets - Making Dens
3. The Kooks - Inside In, Inside Out
4. Guillemots - Through The Windowpaine
5. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever I Say I Am...6. Embrace - This New Day
7. The Stills - Without Feathers
8. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
9. Placebo - Meds
10. Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites11. Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
12. Wolfmother - Wolfmother
13. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
14. The Roots - Game Theory
15. Destroyer - Destroyer's RubiesDecemberists - The Crane Wife
I tried to give Picaresque a listen when it was released and it just didn't do anything for me. Not long ago, a coworker asked if I'd heard The Crane Wife and sent me the folk story, it grabbed my interest and actually listening to the album left me amazed. Though I'm not the first person to draw a lyrical comparison to Death Cab For Cutie, Decemberists' lyrics and stories are superior in every way thanks to the far more interesting and enveloping music that surrounds them. Admittedly I got into this album late in the year, but almost instantly knew it would take the top spot in my list for the year.Mystery Jets - Making Dens
I first heard the single "You Can't Fool Me, Dennis," on a complilation and really loved the song, the change in rhythms, everything about it. The full album carries on into interesting territory veering from playfulness to sadness and then some. It's one of the most interesting, catchy, fun, intelligent albums of the year hands down, filled with variety. It would almost be my #1 album of the year if not for Decemberists making me do a total 180 on an appreciation of them.The Kooks - Inside In, Inside Out
What can I say, people love it or hate it. For me, it's one of the most enjoyable happy, fun-ish albums of 2006 - something that I don't often gravitate to. Maybe it's the memory of laying on the beach in Aruba this past June with this album playing on our portable ipod speakers that holds it in my mind as such a great album. Maybe it fit for the moment. But it's one that I've gravitated to on my ipod many times throughout the year. I used to hate music like this, but these days it feels like a great relief to have something like this I can enjoy. Yes, it's a little Razorlight-ish, but The Kooks turned in a better album this year than Razorlight did, but that's another discussion entirely.Guillemots - Through The Windowpaine
The thing I love about this album is that it takes you on a strange, fantastical journey, and you have no idea where it starts or where you'll end up. There's only one song that works on it's own (Made-Up Lovesong #43), otherwise the only way to listen to this album is from start to finish. It's similiar to Making Dens in terms of variety, and the production is excellent. A good album for rainy days and a good album for nice days when you just want to drift away into the evening.Arctic Monkeys - Whatever I Say I Am...
Still as catchy and grabbing as it was when it came out. You've got to hand it to this band to virtually come out of nowhere and write an album that achieved such acclaim as this and still seem like normal everyday guys. Maybe it's their innocence that makes them so appealing, but it's damn cool that this album always just sounds so good.