Albums in 2006

What are some good albums in 2006?

[JohnnyBaconbitz]

I think there's going to be some new Wilco and Flaming Lips among other things.
 
 Obviously, there's the B&S...probably some Shins, too.
 
 It will be hard to top 2005 in my opinion, though.

[Sage 703]

Wow, I thought 2005 was a horribly weak year for music.  I certainly hope it isn't hard to top 2005.

[SPARX]

Originally posted by callat703:
  Wow, I thought 2005 was a horribly weak year for music.  I certainly hope it isn't hard to top 2005.

Did you listen to any of these from '05?                                                                                           * josephine foster - hazel eyes, i will lead you
 * tivol - early teeth
 * kreuzweg ost - edelrost
 * v/a - good for what ails you: music of the medicine
 shows 1926-1937 2CD
 * songs of green pheasant - s/t
 * desiderii marginis - that which is tragic & timeless
 * v/a - gold leaf branches 3CD
 * the prophet gabriel - s/t EP
 * navicon torture technologies - all i want to hear is
 the sound of my own heart stopping
 * wooden wand - harem of the sundrum & the witness figg
 * the protagonist - interim EP
 * brothers of the occult sisterhood - lucifer's bride
 * kiss the anus of a black cat - if the sky falls, we
 shall catch larks
 * sufjan stevens - illinois
 * skullflower - orange canyon mind
 * the protagonist - songs from experience
 * james blackshaw - lost prayers & motionless dances
 * v/a - invisible pyramid elegy box 6CD
 * yellow swans - psychic secession
 * residual echoes - s/t
 * hive mind - death tone
 * half man half biscuit - achtung bono
 * uton - whispers from the woods 3CD
 * derby - this is the new you
 * v/a - charms cut from our trees
 * acid mothers temple - anthem of the space
 * deerhoof - the runners four
 * yellow swans - live during war crimes
 * terracid - the evacuation of earth
 * darkwood - weltenwende EP
 * oxblood reincarnations - split but for the roots
 * reigns - we lowered a microphone into the ground
 * residual echoes - phoenician flu & ancient ocean
 * terracid - transcendent reign inheritor
 * v/a - sun surrounds us vol. 2 2CD
 * landing - brocade
 * xenis emputae travelling band / the north sea - split
 * god is an astronaut - all is violent all is bright
 * hive mind - eldritch breath
 * oxblood reincarnations - grasslands
 * dead machines - futures
 * brothers of the occult sisterhood - run from your
 honey mind
 * ilk - canticle
 * the well of sadness - tarantella for the death
 * starving weirdos - s/t
 * double leopards - out of one, through one & to one
 * jerusalem & the starbaskets - darkbasket
 * lewis & clarke - bare bones & branches
 * schwabinggrad ballett - s/t
 * magic is kuntmaster - virgin ghost
 * v/a - hall of mirrors 2CD
 * psychic paramount - gamelan into the mink supernatural
 * brothers of the occult sisterhood / golden oaks -
 split
 * davenport - marble seed
 * a place to bury strangers - s/t
 * esmerine - aurora
 * the north sea & rameses III - night of the ankou
 * hangedup - clatter for control
 * spires that in the sunset rise - four winds
 * v/a - maan matoset
 * mint chicks - fuck the golden youth
 * october falls - tuoni
 * yellow swans - dreamed
 * birchville cat motel - firepower fragrant cloud
 * kawabata makoto - jellyfish rising
 * v/a - sound surrounds us vol. 1
 * the clientele - it's art, dad
 * boris - pink
 * growing - his return
 * nadja - body cage

[Bags]

Originally posted by callat703:
  Wow, I thought 2005 was a horribly weak year for music.  I certainly hope it isn't hard to top 2005.

Ditto

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by SPARX:
             

Originally posted by callat703:
  Wow, I thought 2005 was a horribly weak year for music.  I certainly hope it isn't hard to top 2005.

Did you listen to any of these from '05?                                        
 
 * god is an astronaut - all is violent all is bright
 * a place to bury strangers - s/t
 [/b]

I fully agree with you Sparx! There was tons of good music as long as you knew how get away from all of the Mainstream Indie hype and the NME or Pitchfork. Those two of your's noted above were big highlights for me in 2005 along with tons and tons of other works. Everything from Windermere, Kent, the various artists collecton of "Never Lose That Feeling", The Morning After Girls, Monster Movie, Ceremony, Malory, The Black Angels, Greenspace, The Stevenson Ranch Davidians, Hammock, Eau Claire, DestroyAllDreamers, Flavor Crystals, Televise, Air Formation, The High Dials, Shade, Lycia Sleep, Soundclub and way more that have slipped my mind at present. 2006 is looking very promising too.
 
 Funny thing is, many people would probably like a good 80% or so of what we've posted yet won't even bother to check most of them out until Pitchfork or the NME tells them it's okay to do so.          :roll:

[SPARX]

Originally posted by Jaguar:
 
 Funny thing is, many people would probably like a good 80% or so of what we've posted yet won't even bother to check most of them out until Pitchfork or the NME tells them it's okay to do so.         :roll:  [/QB]

Sad but true, makes it particularly hard on up and coming bands. I really like SRD as well. So,let me make it a little easier and  hope a few people may enjoy these guys:                              http://www.thestevensonranchdavidians.com

[Sage 703]

good lord Sparx, talk about an exhaustive list that makes me feel uneducated.
 
 of those on your list, I have only heard a pretty sizable handful.
 
 my comment was more aimed at the things that have broken through into a larger audience.  i think in any given year, you will always have some phenomenal releases if you can find them - so much music is put out these days, that if you look hard enough, you will be able to find great stuff.  there isn't any doubt about that.
 
 but to me, what really differentiates one year from another is what is sitting on the (relative) surface.  that sounds ignorant, and I don't mean it to, but do you know what I mean?

[Bombay Chutney]

Well, it's not like I'm not interesting in discovering new music, but I barely have time to listen to the 2 CDs I bought this past Tuesday,  much less track down and investigate 50+ bands I've never heard of before.  
 
 Convince me that I need to listen to these bands.  Telling me how uncool I am for reading Pitchfork ain't gonna do it.

[Bags]

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
  Well, it's not like I'm not interesting in discovering new music, but I barely have time to listen to the 2 CDs I bought this past Tuesday,  much less track down and investigate 50+ bands I've never heard of before.  
 
 Convince me that I need to listen to these bands.  Telling me how uncool I am for reading Pitchfork ain't gonna do it.

You took the words right outta my mouth.  In relative terms, I do a pretty good job at finding new music, though I know I'm a novice to some folks.  That's the case for anything, I suppose.
 
 Calla, I agree with you as well....not ignorant to me.  As if that's any solace.  

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I think his point is if you're going to read up/listen for new indie music, to go to different sources than Pitchfork or WOXY.
 
 Do you get all of your news from CNN and USA Today?

[SPARX]

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
  Well, it's not like I'm not interesting in discovering new music, but I barely have time to listen to the 2 CDs I bought this past Tuesday,  much less track down and investigate 50+ bands I've never heard of before.  
 
 Convince me that I need to listen to these bands.  Telling me how uncool I am for reading Pitchfork ain't gonna do it.

Here's a simple and relatively painless way to check out bands by bio or audio clips in a matter of seconds.                                          www.allmusic.com

[clyde725]

Originally posted by SPARX:
 
 * half man half biscuit - achtung bono
 

You poser.  I liked half man half biscuit before they were famous.  I find all the good bands before they become sellouts and are put on allmusic.com.

[SPARX]

Originally posted by clyde725:
   

Originally posted by SPARX:
 
 * half man half biscuit - achtung bono
 

You poser.  I liked half man half biscuit before they were famous.  [/b]

They're famous? Must be a broad definition of the word.

[zoso483]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
  I think his point is if you're going to read up/listen for new indie music, to go to different sources than Pitchfork or WOXY.
 
 Do you get all of your news from CNN and USA Today?

To compare pitchfork to USA today is silly.  Sure, it is mainstream for the indie world, but have you forgotten about billboard or the top 40?  The majority of music pitchfork talks about doesn't get a sniff of major radio play.  We can discuss the music industry another time, but please, let's keep things in perspective.