Best Record Of 2006 - The Story So Far...?
 

C'mon then, fuckers, let's have them. I'm genuinely interested here; stuff I might have missed, stuff you're obsessed with...

Provided it was released this year, let me here it! Literally... whatever... ANYTHING!!!

I'm going to get the ball rolling with the new Espers record - II. Despite its lack of originality it's really grabbed me more than most other releases this year.

I'll also throw down an honourable mention to Mono for their latest; it's very decent indeed.

Scene your little heart out, whatever - what's the best record of '06 so far?!

EDIT: Alriiight, okay... not neccessarily THE greatest sounds put to vinyl. Just your favourites from this year.

The new Six Organs Of Admittance totally slays, but I would have to think about the "best."

hell yeah.

Comets On Fire - Avatar
I think the Howlin' Rain album came out this year.. those guys in Comets can do no wrong.

be your own pet's has given me tons of enjoyment also...

and uhhh Magik Markers - A Panegyric To The Things I Do Not Understand

thats all that I can think of right now...

The Raconteurs- Broken Boy Soldiers
Sonic Youth- Rather Ripped
Be Your Own Pet- s/t

those three come to mind

I can never name a best from year to year because there are times when my head just gets turned around by this of that.Most of the records i've bought this year are from disparate times and spaces in music so i can't really tell.

I'm in the same boat as Porkie. I've a feeling I haven't even bought a record released this year.

obviously, RR
Flying Luttenbachers- Cataclysm.

i really havent had mioney to buy anything. i am looking forward to a few though: Silver Mt Zion- Fuck You Drakulas , Emily Haines' solo. Xiu Xiu-Air Force, Lullabye Arkestra- Ampgrave... and some others...(some of those are out)

I like that.We like that.

I've wracked the vaults of my mind. The only record that could faintly qualify would be a re-issue of the number stations box set. Which, in all honesty, would qualify for record of the year most years, regardless of the irrationality concerned, unless the Fall happen to be about that year.

Pick either the 10" or the 7" by the best band that has begun in 2006, the Wooden Shjips

http://www.myspace.com/woodenshjips

http://www.woodenshjips.com/

http://www.sickthirst.com/]

Recommended to fans of the spacey psych, krauty artpunk, etc...Spacemen 3, Can, Residual Echoes, Monoshock, and the like.

Apparently, the band came up with their first three songs and made them into a 10-inch record which they shipped around for free to selected people. It took me a while to track one down. Then they made two more songs and put those out on the Sick Thirst 7-inch. Obviously possessors of superior obscure record collections, these guys make songs specifically to make great records. I don't even think they've played out yet.

Thanks for the tip, DJ Rick! This is pretty great.

uuummm....Rather Ripped. It's the only album of this year that I have.

joanna newsom's new album
tv on the radio
sy
byop
comets on fire

Erase Errata - Nightlife

by far

I like that one too

only one i have from this year is Be Your Own Pet... it's fun and all. There's gotta be something outstanding though right? Please don't say Rather Ripped.

Did someone say new Joanna? Details, PLZ.

Uhh...

Xiu Xiu - The Air Force is fantastic. Other than that there are a few mentionables.

Morrissey - Ringleader
New Six Organs
Cat Power - The Greatest
Parenthetical Girls - Safe as Houses
Islands - Return to the Sea
New Yellow Swans

I really love the new Current 93 and....uh...hm

Its been sort of boring this year.

genghis tron - dead mountain mouth
gorgoroth - erm...forgot the name in latin
six organs - sun awakens
the vetiver album
byop
amt - have you seen the other side of the sky?
BARDO POND - TICKET CRYSTALS
suishou no fune - where the spirits are
keiji haino and sitaar tah! - animamima
ovo - miastenia
flaming lips - at war with the mystics
scott walker - the drift
ooioo - taiga
belle and sebastian - the life pursuit
tv on the radio - return to cookie mountain
liars - drums not dead
camera obscura - let's get out of the country
rather ripped
xiu2 - the air force
wolf eyes - human animal (even though the first couple of songs are kinda boring)
cat power - the greatest
my cat is an alien - cosmic light of the third millennium

too many to mention really...there's also tons of rad albums coming out soon: yo la tengo, mastodon, converge, alter/altar, etc.

i think i'm the only person who didn't go nuts over erase errata playing funky beats, i thought the nightlife was very tedious.

We Landed On The Moon-We Landed On The Moon
My Cat Is An Alien-Ascends The Sky
Sonic Youth-Rather Ripped