Top 77 Albums of 2006

  ARTIST ALBUM LABEL
1 A Whisper in the Noise As the Bluebird Sings Transdreamer
2 Alela Diane The Pirate's Gospel Holocene Music
3 Arab Strap The Last Romance Transdreamer
4 Art Brut Bang Bang Rock & Roll Banana
5 Awesome Snakes Venom Crustacean
6 Band of Horses Everything All the Time Sub Pop
7 Be Your Own Pet Be Your Own Pet Ecstatic Peace
8 Beach House Beach House Carpark
9 Beck The Information Interscope
10 Beirut Gulag Orkestar Ba Da Bing!
11 Belles of Skin City You Do the Company Proud Totally Gross
12 Birthday Suits Cherry Blue Nice & Neat
13 Bonnie Prince Billy The Letting Go Drag City
14 Building Better Bombs This is a Gang. All We Need is … Totally Gross…
15 Built to Spill You in Reverse Warner Bros.
16 Califone Roots and Crowns Thrill Jockey
17 Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Etiquette Tomlab
18 Cat Power The Greatest Matador
19 Cex Actual Fucking Automation
20 Chin Up Chin Up This Harness Can't Ride Anything Suicide Squeeze
21 CSS Cansei De Ser Sexy Sub Pop
22 Danielson Ships Secretly Canadian
23 Darkel Darkel Astralwerks
24 Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies Merge
25 Dirty on Purpose Hallelujah Sirens North Street
26 Dosh The Lost Take Anticon
27 Dr. Dog Takers and Leavers [EP] Park the Van
28 Duplomacy All These Long Drives 2024
29 Editors The Back Room Fader
30 El Perro Del Mar El Perro Del Mar Control Group
31 Fat Kid Wednesdays Singles Hope Street
32 Final Fantasy He Poos Clouds Tomlab
33 Gay Beast Navy Quilted Pier [EP] Self Released
34 Girl Talk Night Ripper Illegal Art
35 Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere Downtown
36 Grizzly Bear Yellow House Warp
37 Heartless Bastards All This Time Fat Possum
38 Hot Chip The Warning Astralwerks
39 Islands Return to the Sea Equator
40 Joanna Newsom Ys Drag City
41 Junior Boys In the Morning Domino
42 Kill the Vultures The Carless Flame Locust Music
43 Liars Drum's Not Dead Mute
44 M. Ward Post-War Merge
45 Maritime We, the Vehicles Flameshovel
46 Mastodon Blood Mountain Warner
47 Mates of State Bring it Back Barsuk
48 Matthew Friedberger Winter Women / Holy Ghost Language… 859
49 Mew And the Glass Handed Kites Columbia
50 Mi and L'au Mi and L'au Young God
51 Micah P. Hinson Micah P. Hinson and the Opera Circuit Jade Tree
52 Mogwai Mr. Beast Matador
53 Mr. Lif Mo' Mega Def Jux
54 Oh No! Oh My! Oh No! Oh My! Self Released
55 Owen At Home With Polyvinyl
56 Peter and the Wolf Lightness The Worker's Institute
57 Prototypes Prototypes Minty Fresh
58 Psalm One The Death of Frequent Flyer Rhymesayers
59 Psapp The Only Thing I Ever Wanted Domino
60 Ratatat Classics XL Recordings
61 Signal to Trust Golden Armour Modern Radio
62 Sparks Hello Young Lovers In the Red
63 STNNNG Fake Fake Modern Radio
64 Super XX Man X Hush
65 Swan Lake Beast Moans Jagjaguwar
66 Tam Tam Ecstatic Peace!
67 The Black Angels Passover Light in the Attic
68 The Black Heart Procession The Spell Touch & Go
69 The Blow Paper Television K Recs
70 The Boy Least Likely To The Best Party Ever Too Young to Die
71 The Dad in Common Various Moms Self Released
72 The Decemberists The Crane Wife Capitol
73 The Get Up Johns Trouble in Mind Mercy
74 The God Damn Doo Wop Band Broken Hearts Afternoon Records
75 The Gossip Standing in the Way of Control Kill Rock Stars
76 The Gothic Archies The Tragic Treasury Nonesuch
77 The King Khan and BBQ Show What's For Dinner? In the Red