Man, what a sloppy year. It was nothing compared to last year, and definitely no 2003. With hardly any epic releases, 2006 was full of random indie upshoots that wouldn’t really be on this list in other years. Oh well, here’s my list with some one-word descriptions. Go.

01. TV On the Radio – Return To Cookie Mountain (Complex)
02. Muse – Black Holes & Revelations (Massive)
03. Office – Q&A (All business)
04. Band of Horses – Everything All The Time (Giddy Up)
05. Hot Chip – The Warning (Bouncetastic)
06. The Foundry Field Recordings – Prompts/Miscues (Airy)
07. Stoney – The Scene and the Unseen (Laddy)
08. Love Is All – 9 Times That Same Song (Garage Punk)
09. The Radio Dept. – Pet Grief (Smoothtronic)
10. The Knife – Silent Shout (Darktronic)
11. Now It’s Overhead – Dark Light Daybreak (Roady)
12. Phoenix – It’s Never Been Like That (Frenchy)
13. Comets On Fire – Avatar (Pink Allman)
14. Peter Bjorn and John – Writer’s Block (Who else?)
15. SOUND Team – Movie Monster (Ominous)
16. Ellen Allien & Apparat – Orchestra of Bubbles (Dense)
17. Grandaddy – Just Like The Fambly Cat (Goodbye)
18. Ten Kens – Ten Kens (Gruff)
19. Beck – The Information (Prismatic)
20. Union of Knives – Violence & Birdsong (Synthos)
21. White Rose Movement – Kick (Stuffy)
22. No Doubt: For not releasing an album this year (Duh.)

My Top 20.05 Albums of 2005
My Top Albums & Photos of 2004