Top 10 for 2006

Julia Adams (CTD)
Califone "Roots and Crowns (Thrill Jockey)
Calexico "Garden Ruins" (Quarterstick)
Eric Bachman "To the Races (Saddle Creek)
Bonnie Prince Billy "The Letting Go" (Drag City)
Destroyer "Destroyer's Rubies" (Merge)
Handsome Family "Last Days of Wonder" (Carrot Top Records)
Howe Gelb "Sno Angel" (Thrill Jockey)
Juana Molina "Son" (Domino)
M. Ward "Post War" (Merge)
Yo La Tengo "I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass" (Matador)

Tony Adams (Web Geek/Atoms.net)
Bruce Cockburn - Life Short Call Now (Rounder)
Palliard - You Can't Heal Alone (self released)
The Handsome Family - Last Days of Wonder (Carrot Top)
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Califone - Roots and Crowns (Thrill Jockey)
Low Skies - All the Love I Could Find (Flameshovel)
Alejandro Escovedo - The Boxing Mirror (Back Porch)
The Braves - Quiet, Hushed Animals (Johann's Face)
Calexico - Garden Ruin (Quarterstick)
Niyaz - Niyaz Remixed EP (Six Degrees Records)

John Almonte (CTD)
Jakob - Solace (advance) (Midium Records)
Voivod - Katorz (The End Records)
Boris/Sunn0))) - Altar (Southern Lord)
The Life and Times - Magician (Stiff Slack)
Melvins - A Senile Animal (Ipecac Records)
EE - Capital Plans (Actually Records)
Jesu - Silver (HydraHead Records)
Pajo - 1968 (Drag City)
Anoice - Remmings (Important Records)
Envy - Insomniac Doze (Temporary Residence)

Andy (Amp Camp)
Dear & Glorious Physician - S/T (New Granada Records)
The Drones (aus) - Gala Mill
Joanna Newsom - Ys (Drag City)
King Kong Ding Dong - S/T (Badmaster)
Jay Reatard - Blood Visions (In the Red)
Shearwater - Palo Santo (Misra)
The Modern Containment Series - VA (Three Lobed recordings)
The Changes - Today is Tonight (Wheatfield Group)
The Clash - The Singles Box (Epic)
Wilderness - Vessel States (Jagjaguwar)

Tyler Ashton (CTD)
Beirut - Postcards From Italy MP3
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (Barsuk)
Postal Service - Brand New Colony (SubPop)
Weezer - This Is Such a Pity
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
Coheed and Cambria - Ten Speed (of God's Blood and Burial)
The Sea and The Cake - The Argument
Wir Sind Helden - Gekommen um zu bleiben
MPL - Wiederkehr
Rammstein - Spring
Zero 7 - In The Waiting Line
and last but not least
Justin Timberlake - SexyBack

Owen Ashworth (Casiotone for the Painfully Alone)
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
The Parenthetical Girls - Safe As Houses
Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor
Scott Walker - The Drift
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
The Donkeys - The Donkeys
Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Boduf Songs - Lion Devours The Sun

Chris Berry (Soft Abuse)
Axolotl - Telesma (Spooky Action)
Destroyer - Destroyer’s Rubies (Merge)
Grouper - Wide (Free Porcupine Society)
Andre Herman Dune – Täglich Brot (Shrimper)
Daniel I.A.U. Higgs - Ancestral Songs (Holy Mountain)
Reiko Kudo – KUSA (Hyotan)
Jakob Olausson - Moonlight Farm (DeStijl)
The Skygreen Leopards - Disciples of California (Jagjaguwar)
Swan Lake - Beast Moans (Jagjaguwar)
Scott Walker - The Drift (4AD)

Sandy Bitman (Park Ave CDs, Orlando)
Alexi Murdoch - Time Without Consequence (Razor & Tie)
South - Adventures in the Underground, Journey to the Stars (Young American)
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador)
Tahiti 80 - Fosbury (The Militia Group)
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti)
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (Interscope)
120 Days - S/T (Smalltown Supersound/Vice)
Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America (Vagrant)
Chavez - Better Days Will Haunt You (Matador)
Oxford Collapse - Remember the Night Parties (SubPop)

Marty Cardona (CTD)
Bob Dylan - Modern Times (Columbia)
Boris/Sunn0))) - Altar (Southern Lord)
Niobe - White Hats (Tomlab)
Justin Timberlake - Future Sex/Love Sounds (Jive)
Christian Kiefer - Czar Nicholas Is Dead (Camera Obscura)

Erin Coleman (CTD intern)
Jolie Holland - Springtime Can Kill You (Anti)
Calexico - Garden Ruin (Quarterstick)
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (Anti)
M. Ward - Post-War (Merge)
Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twin s- Rabbit Furcoat (Team Love)
Margot & The Nuclear So And So's - The Dust of Retreat (Artemis)
Glenn Kotche - Mobile (Nonesuch)
Decemberists - The Crane Wife (Capitol)
Ratatat - Classics (XL)
Joanna Newsom - Ys (Drag City)

Tony Dale (Camera Obscura)
Agitated Radio Pilot "Your Turn To Go It Alone" (Rusted Rail 2x3)
Anton Barbeau "In the Vilage of the Apple Sun" (Four-Way)
Nick Castro and the Young Elders "Come Into Our House" (SAAH)
Current 93 "Black Ships Ate the Sky"(Durtro)
Espers "II" (Drag City)
Fern Knight "Music For Witches and Alchemists" (VHF)
Flying Canyon - s/t (Soft Abuse)
Handsome Family - Last Days of Wonder (Carrot Top)
Tanakh - Ardent Fevers (Alien 8)
United Bible Studies - Shore That Fears the Sea (Deserted Village)

Marjorie Eisenberg (Permanent Records- NY)
Chad Vangaalen - Skilliconnection
Field Music - S/T
Jim Noir - Tower of Love
M Ward - Post-War
Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
Page France - Hello Dear Wind
Pink Mountaintops - Axis of Evol
Richard Buckner - Meadow
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You...
The Knife - Silent Shout
--edited for compliance

Erik (Thrill Jockey)
Joanna Newsom - Ys (Drag City)
Vetiver - To Find Me Gone (DiCristina)
Califone - Roots & Crowns (Thrill Jockey)
White Magic - Dat Rosa Mel Apibus (Drag City)
Damien Jurado - And Now That I'm In Your Shadow (Secretly Canadian)
Extra Golden - Ok-Oyot System (Thrill Jockey)
Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light (Matador)
Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar (Southern Lord)
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar (Ba Da Bing!)
OM - Conference of the Birds (Holy Mountain)

Simon Guzylack (Tomlab)
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House 
Metallic Falcons - Desert Doughnuts  
Klaxons - the two 12' on Kitsune
Lo-Fi-Fnk - Boylife i
Thom Yorke - The Eraser 
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped 
Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
The Isles - Perfumed Lands 
Beach House 
Xiu Xiu - The Air Force

Corbin Harwell (Waterloo Records, Austin)
Clark - Body Riddle
Skygreen Leopards - Disciples of California
Kashmere Stage Band - Texas Thunder Soul
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Six Organs Of Admittance - Sun Awakens
SunnO)))/Boris - Altar
Kocani Orkestar - Alone At My Wedding
Bluetip - Polymer
Eureka Farm - S/T
Los Pregoneros Del Puerto - Music Of Veracruz
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan - Sones de Jaliscos Con El Mejor Mariachi Del Mexico
--And my breakup record for this year: Dwight Yoakam - This Time

Robert Iwanik (CTD)
Badawi - Safe (Asphodel)
Muslimgauze - Speaker Of Turkish (re-issue on Soleilmoon)
Thomas Strønen - Pohlitz (Rune Grammofon)
EK - Dialects (Plastic)
Extra Golden - Ok-Oyot System (Thrill Jockey)
Erik Friedlander & Teho Teardo - Giorni Rubati (Bip-Hop)
Supersilent - 7 (Rune Grammofon)
Roots - Game Theory (Def Jam)
Loren Connors - Night Through (Family Vineyard)
Oxbow - Love That's Last (HydraHead)

Jan Lankisch (Tomlab)
Erase Errata - Nightlife
Beyoncé - B'Day
Dat Politics - Wow Twist
Scott Walker - The Drift
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Sparks - Hello Young Lovers
Danielson - Ships
The Curtains - Calamity
Destroyer - Rubies
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House

Chris Lelko (CTD)
Mastadon - Blood Mountain
The Mars Volta - Amputechture (Universal)
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom (Ipecac)
David Gilmour - On An Island (Sony)
Tool - 10,000 Days (Volcano)
Foo Fighters - Skin and Bones (RCA)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier (V2)
The Sword - Age Of Winters (Kemado)
Wolfmother - Wolfmother (Modular)

Andy Liszt (LSD and the Search for God)
Astrobrite - Pinkshinyultrablast
The Year Zero - Oceania, I Will Return
Le Volume Courbe - I Killed My Best Friend
Cosmicdust - Snow Noise Assemblage
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
Lilys - Everything Went Wrong Is Imaginary
Fleeting Joys - Despondent Transponder
Broken Robots - Demos EP
Psychic Ills - Early Violence
Richard Formby - EP

Marah (Touch and Go)
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Herbert - Scale
Benoit Pioulard - Precis
Hot Chip - The Warning
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Darondo - Let My People Go
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Kudu - Death of the Party

Matthew (Shelflife)
Mahogany - Connectivity!
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy (Reissue + DVD)
The Radio Dept - Pet Grief
Cortney Tidwell - Don't let the Stars Keep Us Tangled Up
Beach House - Beach House
Languis - Other Desert Cities EP
Shogun Kunitoki - Tasankokaiku
Chapterhouse - Whirlpool (Reissue)
Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

Ed Mazzucco (Shelflife)
Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You LP
Mahogany - Connectivity! CD
The Radio Dept - Pet Grief LP
Languis - Other Desert Cities EP
Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song LP
The Rifles - No Love Lost LP
Pia Fraus - Nature Heart Software CD
Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things CD
The Futureheads - News And Tributes LP
The Manhattan Love Suicides - s/t CD
Top 5 7"s...
Good Shoes - All In My Head 7"
Sarandon - The June Bride 7"
Bricolage - Footsteps 7"
Larrikin Love - Down Kindling Street 7"
Harrisons - Blue Note 7"

Sean McCarthy (Librarian, ex-CTD)
Melvins - (A) Senile Animal
Black Angels - Passover
I Love You But Ive Chosen Darkness - Fear Is On Our Side
Pinebender - Working 9 to Wolf
Harmonia - Music Von & Deluxe reissues
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Thom Yorke -  The Eraser
Built To Spill - You In Reverse
Mogwai - Mr Beast
Secret Machines - 10 Silver Drops

Patrick Monaghan (CTD/Carrot Top Records)
120 Days - S/T (Smalltown Supersound/Vice)
Black Hollies - Crimson Reflection (Ernest Jenning)
Califone - Roots and Crowns (Thrill Jockey)
Edison Woods - Nest of Machines (Habit of Creation)
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds (Tomlab)
Flying Canyon - S/T (Soft Abuse)
Robyn Hitchcock & Venus 3 - Ole! Tarantula (Yep Rock)
Will Kimbrough - Americanitis (Daphne)
Kaki King - ...Until We Felt Red (Velour)
Low Skies - All the Love I Could Find (Flameshovel)
--next year somebody from the end of the alphabet please release a record I will love forever.

EPs
Amandine - Leave Out the Sad Parts EP (Fat Cat)
Unfortunaut - Of Here and Now (Feast of the Unicorn)
Voxtrot - Your Biggest Fan (Play Louder)

Music Saves (Cleveland)
Bears - Bears (self-released)
Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (Matador)
Bound Stems - Appreciation Night (Flameshovel)
Califone - Roots and Crowns (Thrill Jockey)
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (ANTI-)
Decemberists - The Crane Wife (Capitol)
Ladyhawk - Ladyhawk (Jagjaguwar)
Lovely Feathers - Hind Hind Legs (Equator)
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountian (Universal)
Vetiver - To Find Me Gone (DiCristina Stairbuilders)

Randall Nieman (Mind Expansion/Füxa)
V/A - A Mind Expansion Compilation (Mind Expansion)
Lilys - Everything Is Imaginary (Manifesto)
Tunng - Mother's Daughter and Other Songs (Static Caravan)
Dean and Britta - Words You Use to Say (Zoe)
Populous - Breathes the Best (Morr)
Yo La Tengo - I'm Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador)
Luna - Best Of (Rhino)
Pavement - Wowee Zowee (Matador reissue)
Füxa - Electric Sound of Summer (Static Caravan)
Lou Reed - Cony Island Baby (Sony Legacy reissue)

Henry Owings (Chunklet)
Vincent Black Shadow - S/T (Heart Break Beat)
Major Stars - Syntoptikon (Important/Twisted Village)
Russian Circles - Enter (Flameshovel)
Warhammer 48k - An Ethereal Oracle (Papa Slag)
Jay Reatard - Blood Visions (In The Red)
Jack Rose - Untitled (aRchive)
God's Temple of Family Deliverance - S/T (Notcommon Records)
Growing - Color Wheel (Troubleman)
Black Helicopter - Invisible Jet (Ecstatic Peace!)
Goslings - Grandeur of Hair (aRchive)

Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy)
Xiu Xiu - The Air Force 
Rozasia - Rozasia EP 
Ratface Dream Angel - Mix CD-Rs 
Sparks - Hello Young Lovers 
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House 
Sandro Perri - Sings Polmo Polpo 
Scott Walker - The Drift 
Simon Bookish - Trainwreck/Raincheck 
Planningtorock - Have It All
Wyrd Visions - Half Eaten Guitar 

Mark Robinson (Teenbeat/Flin Flon/Unrest)
Soccer Team LP (Dischord)
Schott's 2007 Almanac
Bossanova - Hey Sugar (Teenbeat, yeah, that's right)
Love and Radio - Podcast (Alt NPR)
The Books - Music for a French Elevator CD (The Books)
Durutti Column - Heaven Sent EP (F4)
Sway Machinery - MP3s
The Ballet - Mattachine! (thepirateship.org)
Tussle - Telescope Mind (Smalltown Supersound
+/- {Plus/Minus} at CMJ

David Shrigley (Tomlab artist)
Yoshida Tatsuya & Keji Haino - New Rap
Scott Walker - The Drift
John Zorn - Moonchild
Dead Moon - Echoes of The Past
Merzbow - Sennmaida
Electric Masada - At The Mountains of Madness
John Zorn - Mysterium
Paul Flaherty & Chris Corsano - The Beloved Music
Rhys Chatham - Die Donnergotter
Cat Power - The Greatest

Seth Smith (Dog Day)
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
Aids Wolf - The Lovvers
Heavens - Patent Pending
Film School - Film School
Erase Errata - Nightlife
Tokyo Police Club - A Lesson In Crime
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Fucked Up - Hidden World

Tom Steinle (Tomlab)
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Oasis Collaborating (Omar-S. | Shadow Ray) - Album 2
Rafael Toral - Space

Mara Stern (CTD Intern)
Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
Beck- The Information (Interscope)
Thom Yorke- The Eraser (XL)
Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I Am, Thats What I'm Not (Domino)
Ani DiFranco- Reprieve ((Righteous Babe)
The Cardigans- Super Extra Gravity (Nettwerk)
Baby Shambles- Down In Albion (Rough Trade)
Camera Obscura- Lets Get Out of This Country (Merge)
Regina Spektor- Begin to Hope (Sire)
Cat Power- Greatest (Matador)

Karen Tepps (CTD)
Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Show Your Bones (Dreamworks)
Clash 7" singles box (Epic)
Unfortunaut - Of Here and Now (Feast of the Unicorn)
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country (Merge)
Niobe - White Hats (Tomlab)
Of Montreal - Sunlandic Twins (Polyvinyl)
Handsome Family - Last Days of Wonder (Carrot Top Records)
Eagles of Death Metal - Death by Sexy (Cargo)
Lovely Sparrows - Pulling Up Floors (Abandoned Love)
Wire - Pink Flag (reissue) (Pink Flag Records)

Fred Thomas (Ypsilanti, Saturday Looks Good to Me)
Wolf Eyes - Human Animal (SubPop)
Joanna Newsome - Ys (Drag City)
White Magic - Dat Rosa Mel Apibus (Drag City)
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country (Merge)
Love Is All - 9 Times the Same (What's Your Rupture)
Sybille Baier - Colour Green (Orange Twin)
Belle & Sebastian - Life's Per Suit (Matador)
Skygreen Leopards - Disciples of California
Wooden Wand - Crucified Apples
Yellow Swans - Leotard

Allison Wasilewski (CTD)
Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song (What's Your Rupture)
Anathallo - Floating World (Nettwerk)
Girl Talk - Night Ripper (Illegal Art)
Psapp - The Only Thing I Ever Wanted
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love
Decemberists - Crane Wife
CSS - Cansei De Ser Sexy
Knife - Silent Shout
Thom Yorke - The Eraser

Gordon Weber (Tomlab)
Kante - Die Tiere sind unruhig
Hot Chip - The Warning
Trail of dead - So devided
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show your bones
Babyshambles - The blinding EP
Depeche Mode - Playing the angel
Architecture in Helsiniki - In case we die
Deichkind - Aufstand im Schlaraffenland
The Flaming Lips - At war at the mystics

Katie Weld (CTD)
The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams (K7/Smalltown)
Working For a Nuclear Free City - S/T (Melodic)
Boris/ SunnO))) - Altar (Southern Lord)
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country (Merge)
Peanut Butter Wolf - Chrome Children (Stones Throw)
Daedelus - Denies the Day's Demise (Mush)
Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue (Robotic Empire)
The Knife - Silent Shout (Mute)
Alias & Tarsier - Brookland & Oaklyn (Anticon.)
Cansei De Ser Sexy - S/T (Sub Pop)
-MUST HAVE ALBUM OF 2007: Deerhunter- Cryptograms (Kranky)

Chien Yuan (Actually, Records...)
Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Revep EP
Lise Westzynthius - Rock, You Can Fly
J Dilla - Donuts
Jolie Holland - Springtime Can Kill You
Einojuhani Rautavaara - Angels and Visitations
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (reissue)
Lou Rhodes - Beloved One
Alpha - Without Some Help
Marisa Monte - Infinito Particular