Having not determined mine yet( must remember to do that), here's one of the better lists I've seen, compiled by the owner of rednailmusic :
1 natural snow buildings - the dance of the moon & the sun
two discs, each nearly 80 minutes, not a second of filler.
beautifully amazing drone folk from french/argentinian duo.
don't just take my word for it, go here:
http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=1738 or here:
http://www.animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry061111-150413 2 horse feathers - words are dead
best folk pop album since "pink moon", the violin and cello are
tasteful inclusions. great vocals, solid lyrics. a very close
second place.
3 phelan sheppard - harps old master
experimental ambient goodness from members of state river
widening. the last few minutes of "broken in the wrong places"
are of an untouchable quality.
4 titan - s/t
lysergic space rock of the highest order from brooklyn (yet with
german song titles, go figure!). 3 long songs that really should
never end.
5 valley of ashes - cavehill hunters attrition
fantastic 3 LP release of lo-fi acid freak folk from kentucky
6 wooden wand & the sky high band - second attention
another fine release from the wand. every song is a winner,
though the best wand track this year was "war star days" from
the "horus of the horizon" LP on three lobed.
7 various production - the world is gone
cream of the dubstep/grime/uk garage crop. confusing name, but
the music and vocals speak beautiful volumes
8 ashtray navigations - four more raga moods
best of all the 2006 ashtray releases (5 or 6 total, I think).
intense psychedelic drone and noise.
9 six organs of admittance - the sun awakens
not my favorite chasny release, but ben never disappoints. great
stuff from start to finish.
10 andrew douglas rothbard - abandon meander
fantastic california one-man psych folk. a late entry, but
well-deserved.
11 titan - pilzmarmelade
again, lysergic space rock of the highest order from brooklyn.
with 2 releases in my top 11, i'd have to call them my "band of
the year" though it's probably a tie between them and natural
snow buildings
12 cloudland canyon - requiems der natur
bizarre yet very cohesive experimental free-folk-psych.
13 entrance - prayer of death
high intensity acid rock with pop sensibilites. catchy, but
still mindfucking.
14 birchville cat motel - our love will destroy the world
campbell kneale does no wrong. ever. this one is a killer.
noisy, psychedelic drone rock.
15 the loosers - bumba meu boi
lo-fi free psych mayhem released on cassette only! awesome!
16 residual echoes - mfi-gbsp
more great spacy headfuck krautrock from california.
17 graumahd - cheru
beautiful german apocalyptic neo-folk
18 the king khan & bbq show - what's for dinner?
loud nasty garage soul punk... and a side of beans!
19 kode9 & the spaceape - memories of the future
another great electronic dubstep release with fantastic mr.
eko-like vocalisms from the spaceape.
20 daniel higgs - ancestral songs
frontman of lungfish does the folk drone thing very, very well
21 sala arhimo - pelko pois
twisted forest psychedelia from finland
22 gorch fock - thriller
take equal parts jesus lizard, cows & butthole surfers (pre-sell
out days). mix well. serve. repeat.
23 kill the vultures - the careless flame
lo-fi hip hop/rock. noisy samples, loud as fuck percussion and a
pissed off mc who reminds me of gil scott heron.
24 porlolo - storm & season
fantastic female folk pop from austin, tx.
25 nalle - by chance upon waking
more free-folk-type stuff. beautiful, charming and disturbing at
the same time.
26 scott h. biram - graveyard shift
another fantastic album from the "dirty old one man band". only
artist on bloodshot that truly interests me these days.
27 om - conference of the birds
two long songs from ex-Sleep in the "early pink floyd meets vol.
4-era black sabbath" realm
28 skygreen leopards - disciples of california
the re-birth of cosmic american music. best album yet from this
band.
29 mountains - sewn
cool acoustic ambience with some great field recordings
throughout
30 l.e.o. - alpacas orgling
a tribute to ELO without any ELO songs! some perfect 70's Top 40
orchestral psych-pop for the modern age