Albums of the Year 2006

01.

TV on the Radio

album: Return to Cookie Mountain
September 12, 2006 / release date
Interscope, 4AD / label
Indie Rock, Art Rock, Experimental Rock / genres

02.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

album: Show Your Bones
March 28, 2006 / release date
Interscope, Polydor / label
Indie Rock / genres

03.

The Knife

album: Silent Shout
February 17, 2006 / release date
Rabid Records, Brille, V2, Mute / label
Synthpop, Electronic, Minimal Techno / genre

04.

Arctic Monkeys

album: Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
January 23, 2006 / release date
Domino / label
Indie Rock, Garage Rock / genres

05.

Ellen Allien & Apparat

album: Orchestra of Bubbles
April 17, 2006 / release date
BPitch Control / label
Glitch Pop, IDM, Glitch / genres

06.

The Sword

album: Age of Winters
February 14, 2006 / release date
Kemado / label
Stoner Metal, Heavy Metal / genre

07.

Bonobo

album: Days To Come
October 2, 2006 / release date
Ninja Tune / label
Electronic / genres

08.

James Figurine

album: Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake
July 11, 2006 / release date
Houston Party Records / label
Electronic / genre

09.

J Dilla

album: Donuts
February 7, 2006 / release date
Stones Throw / label
Instrumental Hip Hop, Plunderphonics, Soul / genre

10.

Thom Yorke

album: The Eraser
July 10, 2006 / release date
XL / label
Electronic, Glitch Pop / genres

  • 11.
    Junior Boys
    So This Is Goodbye
  • 12.
    The Mars Volta
    Amputechture
  • 13.
    Booka Shade
    Movements
  • 14.
    Girl Talk
    Night Ripper
  • 15.
    Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
    Etiquette
  • 16.
    Mastodon
    Blood Mountain
  • 17.
    Bat for Lashes
    Fur and Gold
  • 18.
    Yo La Tengo
    I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
  • 19.
    Gnarls Barkley
    St. Elsewhere
  • 20.
    Tool
    10,000 Days
  • 21.
    Peter Bjorn and John
    Writer’s Block
  • 22.
    Mono
    You Are There
  • 23.
    Sunset Rubdown
    Shut Up. I Am Dreaming
  • 24.
    Band of Horses
    Everything All the Time
  • 25.
    The Roots
    Game Theory
  • 26.
    Silversun Pickups
    Carnavas
  • 27.
    Ratatat
    Classics
  • 28.
    The Kooks
    Inside In/Inside Out
  • 29.
    All That Remains
    The Fall of Ideals
  • 30.
    Under the Influence of Giants s/t
  • 31.
    Sonic Youth
    Rather Ripped
  • 32.
    Tycho
    Past Is Prologue
  • 33.
    The Flaming Lips
    At War with the Mystics
  • 34.
    Amy Winehouse
    Back to Black
  • 35.
    The Album Leaf
    Into the Blue Again
  • 36.
    Phoenix
    It’s Never Been Like That
  • 37.
    Mogwai
    Mr. Beast
  • 38.
    The Decemberists
    The Crane Wife
  • 39.
    MSTRKRFT
    The Looks
  • 40.
    Electric President
    S / T
  • 41.
    Burial
    s/t
  • 42.
    Lupe Fiasco
    Food & Liquor
  • 43.
    Colour Haze
    Tempel
  • 44.
    Brand New
    The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
  • 45.
    Sparklehorse
    Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
  • 46.
    Neko Case
    Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
  • 47.
    Teddybears
    Soft Machine
  • 48.
    Gotan Project
    Lunático
  • 49.
    The Raconteurs
    Broken Boy Soldiers
  • 50.
    The Swell Season
    s/t