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1. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Case, Neko
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Anti
March 7, 2006
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2. Modern Times
Modern Times
Bob Dylan
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August 29, 2006
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At a time when the majority of those his age are drifting into retirement, 65-year-old Bob Dylan has put the capper on a three-record run that ranks with the best in his storied, 44-album career. Like ... Read more

3. The Crane Wife
The Crane Wife
The Decemberists
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October 3, 2006
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Capitol raised a few eyebrows when they signed indie stalwarts the Decemberists. There's nothing blatantly commercial about the Portland quintet, from Colin Meloy's quavery voice and hyper-literate lyrics to the band's wide-ranging music, which encompasses... Read more

4. Eye to the Telescope
Eye to the Telescope
KT Tunstall
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Virgin Records
February 7, 2006
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If the art of the female singer-songwriter revolves around coffee-table soliloquies then ... Read more

5. St. Elsewhere
St. Elsewhere
Gnarls Barkley
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Downtown
May 9, 2006
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In 2006, Danger Mouse is King Midas of the music world. He has an uncanny knack for creating jagged, dense, frenzied beats and odd, eerie, vivid soundscapes that never compromise the music's natural flow. Meanwhile, rapper and singer Cee-Lo, a veteran of A... Read more

6. Continuum
Continuum
Mayer, John
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September 12, 2006
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Continuum is about as apt a title as it gets for John Mayer's third studio disc. Every element, from the peerless guitar playing to the plainspoken poetry of the lyrics to the breathy-sincere singing, makes a return from previous efforts. But to weakly pronounce this another worthwhile effort from ... Read more

7. Carnavas
Carnavas
Silversun Pickups
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July 25, 2006
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If the idea of basement tapes made by Billy Corgan and Doug Martsch appeals to you, say hello to your new favorite band. Silversun Pickups are fairly early adopters of the 1990s revival, but they're not grunge dorks or anything, and they're from L.A. so th... Read more

8. Superpop Venezuela
Superpop Venezuela
Los Amigos Invisibles
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September 5, 2006
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Venezuela's resident musical maniacs and former Latin Grammy nominees are back with covers of seventeen tunes they knew and loved during their teen years, a few of which, such as "Miss Venezuela," complete with samples of a simpering beauty queen, actuall... Read more

9. Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
Sparklehorse
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September 26, 2006
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Battling his own personal demons while he has been highly coveted as a producer for other bands, singer/songwriter Mark Linkous' output with his own Sparklehorse has been as irregular as it is ingenious. And it's been five years since the candid album ... Read more

10. The Life Pursuit
The Life Pursuit
Belle & Sebastian
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February 7, 2006
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Oh to be free and frivolous, like Stuart Murdoch and his extensive cast of players as they engage ... Read more

11. A Blessing and a Curse
A Blessing and a Curse
Drive By Truckers
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April 18, 2006
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Known for two big-idea concept albums, Southern Rock Opera (dedicated to Lynyrd Skynyrd) and The Dirty South (a 70+ minute exploration of their Alabama roots), the Drive-by Truckers here go economical with a 45+ minute rock album. Three singers (all guitarists, to boot) ensure that moods shift often, even ... Read more

12. Fundamental
Fundamental
Pet Shop Boys
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June 27, 2006
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Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe's experiment in brainy dance pop has been going on for two decades now, and since it's never really been broke they never bother fixing it. True, 2002's ... Read more

13. Duper Sessions
Duper Sessions
Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down
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March 21, 2006
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An extremely young Norwegian-born singer-songwriter-guitarist-bandleader, Lerche has already exhibited a remarkably strong flair for sophisticated pop composition and a talent for witty lyrics. But by moving his previous preference for judiciously applied... Read more

14. Stand Still, Look Pretty
Stand Still, Look Pretty
The Wreckers
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Maverick
May 23, 2006
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The Wreckers are Grammy-winning songstress Michelle Branch and friend/journeywoman Nashville singer-songwriter Jessica Harp, a team whose solid craftsmanship and soaring, airtight harmonies often lift their hook-smart contemporary country stylings above wh... Read more

15. The Information
The Information
Beck
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Interscope Records
October 3, 2006
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On The Information, Beck Hansen is seriously bummed out. Not that he sounds it as much as he did on 2002's laconic, Fred Neil-worshipping Sea Change. Technology and stuff, and the way it gets in the way of human interaction, is the subtext if not the full-on concept at ... Read more

16. Lunático
Lunático
Gotan Project
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Xl Recordings
April 11, 2006
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The Gotan Project literally took the world by storm in 2003 with its million-selling ... Read more

17. Return to Cookie Mountain (with Bonus Tracks)
Return to Cookie Mountain (with Bonus Tracks)
TV on the Radio
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September 12, 2006
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Their second album and first for Interscope is almost wholly brilliant. Like Mogwai, Sigur Ros and a dozen others, TVOTR excels at making slowly-evolving tunes with vaguely anthemic choruses and lots of loud-soft dynamics. Unlike virtually any of those oth... Read more

18. Destroyer's Rubies
Destroyer's Rubies
Destroyer
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February 21, 2006
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Updating AM radio's finer country-rock moments, Destroyer's Rubies showcases a new trend for Destroyer fans--the full-band, ensemble approach. The album succeeds when could-seem contrived Nashville-inspired themes and sounds (baritone saxophones, electric pianos, quoting Jim Reeves) mingle with full melodies and New Pornographer contributor Dan Bejar's self-styled lyrical phrasing. Happily, ... Read more

19. Magic Potion
Magic Potion
Black Keys
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September 12, 2006
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All hail the riff king! The Black Keys' guitarist/singer Dan Auerbach has the meanest way with a hook since Jimmy Page. He adds to his arsenal on the band's fourth full-length release, on which each track pounds its way into your skull with fuzzy, swampy f... Read more

20. Wolfmother
Wolfmother
Wolfmother
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May 2, 2006
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The notion that rock must perpetually break new ground and reinvent itself is the odious legacy of 10 too many years of rock-crit navel gazing, and one that young Australian power trio Wolfmother stands gleefully on its head with their effusive debut. Hard... Read more

21. Savane
Savane
Toure, Ali Farka
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July 25, 2006
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Savane, the great African guitarist and bluesman Ali Farka Touré's final solo studio album, was recorded in his native Mali toward the end of his life, when the artist knew his days were numbered. He spent his last years in his home village of Niafunké, concentrating on farming ... Read more

22. The Boxing Mirror
The Boxing Mirror
Escovedo, Alejandro
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Back Porch
May 2, 2006
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Alejandro Agonistes may yet have a happy ending, but you wouldn't guess it from this torrent of surrealism and gothic textures. Escovedo's first album since nearly succumbing to hepatitis C and crushing debt in 2003 is the darkest, most mysterious album of his career--a harrowing, poetic soundscape partly the ... Read more

23. Endless Wire
Endless Wire
The Who
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October 31, 2006
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Nearly a quarter-century (and bassist John Entwistle) passed between what had been considered the Who's career-capping album, ... Read more

24. Boulevard de l'Independance
Boulevard de l'Independance
Toumani Diabaté's Symmetric Orchestra
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July 10, 2006
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Toumani Diabate, scion of one of Mali's oldest hereditary musical dynasties, was born into a few-centuries-worth of hard-acts-to-follow. But his output continues his father Sidiki's life-long exploration of the manifold possibilities of the ... Read more

25. Rodrigo y Gabriela (with Bonus DVD)
Rodrigo y Gabriela (with Bonus DVD)
Rodrigo y Gabriela
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October 3, 2006
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How did two Mexican-born heavy-metal enthusiasts end up at the top of the Irish charts? The story begins back in their homeland, where Rodrigo Sanchez (lead guitar) and Gabriela Quintero (rhythm and guitar-top hand percussion) met as teenagers. Following y... Read more

26. Boys and Girls in America
Boys and Girls in America
Hold Steady, The
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October 3, 2006
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Craig Finn loves books and bars. It's not just that he pinched the title of he Hold Steady's third album from the ultimate manual for boozehounds, Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" ("Boys and Girls in America have such a sad time together"), but that every leer... Read more

27. Wonderland
Wonderland
Badi Assad
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October 3, 2006
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Wonderland is something like the musical equivalent of a photographic negative: an oddly inverted place which--as one might guess-–bears more than a passing resemblance to the world Alice visits in Lewis Carroll's masterpiece. Badi Assad's second release on edge/Deutsche Grammophon--a collection of her versions of other artists' compositions--brings new ... Read more

28. The True False Identity
The True False Identity
Burnett, T Bone
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May 16, 2006
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T-Bone Burnett has been hard at it since his last record of original songs in 1992: nominated for a songwriting Oscar, winning a production Grammy, composing movie soundtracks, and serving as one of his trade's most valuable studio musicians. But with thos... Read more

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