2006: A SOUND ODYSSEY
CMJ’S STAFF GIVES A RUNDOWN OF THE YEAR’S BEST
Not every year can be 1991, when Nevermind and Bandwagonesque both hit shelves, or 1997, when OK Computer and Lonesome Crowded West all baffled and beguiled us. But hey, we can say with certainty that 2006 was way better than 1906 (not Tin Pan Alley’s finest year). So who knows where we’ll be in another century? None of us, actually, since we’ll be dead. That being said, it was some kind of 12 months, thanks to a roll call of artists that made us bob and smash our heads, dance and tweak our assess off, or in many cases, just kind of sit around and pleasantly tap our feet. Rather than collate a collective staff list of ’06’s finest, we let CMJ New Music Monthly’s esteemed writers, and the rest of our company’s ever-knowledgeable (i.e., opinionated) staff, provide their individual bests. >>>KENNY HERZOG
KENNY HERZOG, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, CMJ NEW MUSIC MONTHLY
TOP ALBUMS
 1. The Goodnight Loving Cemetery Trails (Dusty Medical)
It’s the best rock album no one’s heard, the best debut album by a rock band no one’s heard and the best rock album by a band––gasp!––not from New York. Cemetery Trails has it all: incredible songs (think Uncle Tupelo meets the Feelies), smart lyrics, smart style and, above all, a sense of fun and “fuck it, let’s just play” recklessness. Say hello to Milwaukee’s best.
2. Various Artists Confuzed Disco (Irma Casa Di Primord)
 3. Ghostface Fishscale (Def Jam)
4. Mew And The Glass Handed Kites (Sony)
5. Clipse Hell Hath No Fury(Re-Up/Jive)
Simultaneously charismatic and menacing, and utterly absent of a dull moment, the VA sibling duo transforms the hype into legend with a riveting middle finger to its genre, its peers and its parent company.
6. Masta Killa Made In Brooklyn (Nature Sounds)
 7. Bob Egan The Glorious Decline (Fontana)
Armed with a voice that bellows and croons like Johnny Cash and a knack for tastefully atmospheric pedal/lap steel and slide guitar, the Canadian ex-Wilco-ite has crafted a mini-epic of sadness that feels like ’06’s North American answer to more dramatic UK melancholia.
8. Rock Plaza Central Are We Not Horses (Self-Released)
9. Against Me! Americans Abroad!!! Against Me!!! Live In London!!! (Fat)
10. (Tie) Alice Smith For Lovers, Dreamers & Me (BBE)/The Kronos Quartet And Mogwai The Fountain (Nonesuch)
TOP SINGLES
1. Justin Timberlake “SexyBack” (J)
2. Rick Ross “Hustlin’” (Def Jam)
3. E-40 “Tell Me When To Go” (Warner Bros.)
4. Girl Talk “Smash Your Head” (Illegal Art)
5. In Flames “Take This Life” (Ferret Music)
REV. MOOSE, VICE PRESIDENT OF CONTENT
TOP ALBUMS
 1. The Knife Silent Shout (Mute)
These Swedish siblings volley his-and-hers melodies across throwback darkwave synths on their US debut. Astute listeners will recognize the Knife’s “Heartbeats” from fellow countryman Jose Gonzalez’s cover version on his 2005 release, Veneer. But the real gems are the playfully flirtatious lyrics hidden between dance moves, like when Karin Dreijer teases, “Some things I do for money/Some things I do for free.”
2. Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere (Downtown)
3. VAUX Beyond Virtue, Beyond Vice (Vx/Outlook)
4. Dead Heart Bloom Dead Heart Bloom (Kei)
5. Against Me! Americans Abroad!!! Against Me!!! Live In London!!! (Fat)
 6. Mohair Small Talk (Grunion)
Back when I was a young lad, I watched the Monkees get themselves out of perilous situations with a sugary-sweet radio ditty and a high-speed Keystone Kops-style montage. Take out the corny free-for-all and you have Britain’s Mohair crooning about lovers courted, snagged and lost. Small Talk is just as safe to bring with you babysitting your neighbor’s 4-year-old as it is to put on a mixtape for that girl you crush on.
7. Andrew W.K. Close Calls With Brick Walls (Dope)
8. Murder by Death In Bocca Al Lupo (Tent Show)
 9. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead So Divided (Interscope)
It took over five listens to realize the highbrow genius behind So Divided, but something kept pulling me back for more. Perhaps it’s the texture between the many sonic layers, or perhaps it’s that this is more Built To Spill than Built To Last, but this is the type of album that goes down as a must own for any indie rocker coming of age.
10. Figurines Skeleton (The Control Group)
TOP SINGLES
1.
Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” (Downtown/Atlantic)
2. VAUX “Are You With Me” (Vx/Outlook)
3. Dead Heart Bloom “Saint Henry” (Kei)
4. Pink “Cuz I Can” (La Face)
5. Andrew W.K. “One Brother” (Dope)
REBECCA RABER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
TOP ALBUMS
 1. Girl Talk Night Ripper (Illegal Art)
This not-a-mash-up mash-up record, by this not-a-DJ DJ, made your CD collection obsolete. Gregg Gillis’ ADD-addled edits rubbed Ciara’s heavy breathing against Boston’s noodling and Biggie’s tough flow against chirping Elton John for the best party album of the millennium so far. Lost amongst the din of praise for his cheeky samples was acknowledgement for the synth lines and beats that Gillis wrote himself; in such celebrated company, they sounded ripped from hit albums too.
 2. The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine (Sub Pop)
These lo-fi pop-punks got political on their third full-length, imagining a claustrophobic world in the not-too-distant future where religious tyranny reigns and power is paid for in blood. Though the nightmarish concept album flaunts a newfound lyrical maturity, the Thermals smartly haven’t abandoned their breathlessly adolescent sound. Those urgently downstroked guitars, singalong choruses and thunderingly sexy rhythms make this bitter pill easy to swallow.
3. The Hold Steady Boys And Girls In America (Vagrant)
4. Islands Return To The Sea (Equator)
 5. Sunset Rubdown Shut Up I Am Dreaming (Absolutely Kosher)
Wolf Parade’s Spencer Krug is a busy guy, but he still managed to find the time to carve intimate, piano-driven ballads (and a few shambolic barnburners) out of squiggly keyboards, twinkling glockenspiels and fuzzy vocals as Sunset Rubdown, formerly a solo project. The effect is eerie and poignant, especially given the ambiguous yet lovely poetry of Krug’s lyrics, and at no time does this sound like the work of a side project.
6. Grizzly Bear Yellow House (Warp)
 7. Malajube Trompe L’Oeil (Dare To Care)
I love bands from Montreal—there are three on this list—but what separates Malajube from the rest of their neighbors is that they not only represent the spirit of their francophone hometown, but they also sing entirely in its native language. With new wave nods to Plastic Bertrand, they weave the best of their local scene—Unicorns keyboard buzz, Wolf Parade’s ramshackle rhythms, Arcade Fire’s arty song structures—for the best French-language pop album since the death of Gainsbourg.
8. Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
9. Morrissey Ringleader Of The Tormentors (Sanctuary)
10. Love Is All Nine Times That Same Song (What’s Yr Rupture?)
TOP SINGLES
1. Arctic Monkeys “I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor” (Domino)
2. Dirty Pretty Things “Doctors And Dealers” (Interscope)
3. Lady Sovereign “Random” (Def Jam)
4. Tokyo Police Club “Nature Of The Experiment” (Paper Bag Records)
5. Matt And Kim “Yea Yeah” (IHEARTCOMIX)
ERIC DAVIDSON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
TOP ALBUMS
 1. Mannequin Men Showbiz Witch (Swamp Angel)
As the indescribably “Huh?” liner notes will let on, these sauced shulbs are from Chicago, but I’m guessing not the math rock regions. Even the good garage scuzz scene there seems to be a bit unawares of this shrewd crew. Course from the sounds of this Wipers-wiped-with-sandpaper loaf-eye intelli-poonk debut, maybe it’s best people stay the heck away from the Mannequin Men.
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones (Interscope)
Even the insta-slaggers who salivated at the chance to diss this disc must give the Yeah Yeah Yeahs a yup yup yup for figuring out a way from the yalp ’n’ screech  over to some kind of new pop groove. If that means channeling previous chasm-straddlers the Pretenders or Siouxsie Sioux while also quelling their increasingly divisive personal sitch, then c’set la va-va-voom.
3. Kid Congo And The Pink Monkey Birds Philosophy And Underwear (New York Night Train)
4. Haunted George Panther Howl (Hook Or Crook)
A former member of ’90s garage-psychos the Beguiled moves to some godawful outpost in Texas, argues with half-empty moonshine jugs, gathers his non-senses once more and decides to rattle the ghosts of Charlie Feathers, the Cramps’ first demos and only the  most crazed late-night horror movie TV hosts of 1969 to create a new graveyard storyteller for these slowly dying times. Alternately very spooky and funny, which is a tough trick for a one-man-band.
5. Geisha Girls Disappearing Act (Number 3)
6. Jack-O And The Tennessee Tearjerkers The Flip Side Kid (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
7. Black Angels Passover (Light In The Attic)
8. The Fever In The City of Sleep (Kemado)
9. Fucked Up Hidden World (Jade Tree)
10. Girl Talk Night Ripper (Illegal Art)
TOP SINGLES
1. Teddybears “Punkrocker” (Big Beat)
2. Kooks “Eddie’s Gun” (Astralwerks)
3. TV On The Radio “Wolf Like Me” (Interscope)
4. Top Ten “Easily Unkind” (Classic Bar Music)
5. Scissor Sisters “I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’” (Universal/Motown)
KORY GROW, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
TOP ALBUMS
1. Television Personalities My Dark Places (Domino)
2. Arab Strap The Last Romance (Transdreamer)
 3. Nachtmystium Instinct: Decay (Battle Kommand)
Suburbanite Chicago black meddlers Nachtmystium re-upped into a bigger, blacker beast with their third full-length, but sidestepped the usual corpse paint/blast beat mire with angelically ethereal background vox and blacker-than-black goth guitar solos that recall Joy Division and Siouxsie Sioux more than Mayhem and Emperor. It’s rare a band can find new uses for guitar, but black metal may have found its Jimi Hendrix in Nachtmystium’s mainman, Blake Judd.
4. Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
5. TV On The Radio Return To Cookie Mountain (Interscope)
6. Mogwai Mr. Beast (Matador)
 7. Black Heart Procession The Spell (Touch And Go)
Throughout their careers, most dreary indie rockers alternate between full, lush symphonies to stylized, minimal pluckery (Swans, Dead Can Dance), but melancholy West Coast contrarians Black Heart Procession have steadily sawed convention in half since their early albums steadily grew from depressing anti-music to The Spell’s anxious arias. This album’s high point in low feelings, “The Letter,” makes a good case for keeping these lads off meds.
8. Isis And Aereogramme In The Fishtank 14 (Konkurrent)
 9. Ornette Coleman Sound Grammar (Sound Grammar)
Considering every almost-subversive artist ever mentioned in these pages owes more than a thank you to Coleman, who reinvented the avant garde in the late ’50s, this album—his first new material in a decade—holds special significance, if not for the fact that his harmolodic experiments don’t sound dated. Playing with only two standup basses and a drummer, Coleman evokes more depth and color than most symphony orchestras, and his Sound Grammar still translates perfectly into all languages.
10. Burst Origo (Relapse)
TOP SINGLES
1. Jesu “Star” (Hydra Head)
2. Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins “The Charging Sky” (Team Love)
3. The Coup “Laugh/Love/Fuck” (Epitaph)
4. Turbulence “Notorious” (VP)
5. Gossip “Are U That Somebody” (Kill Rock Stars)
KEVIN KAMPWIRTH, STAFF WRITER
TOP ALBUMS
1. The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine (Sub Pop)
 2. Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador)
Now 20 years into their recording career, there can be little argument that Yo La Tengo is one of the great American rock bands. This album is simply stunning, stylistically tantamount to their 1997 masterpiece I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One. But here, their formulaic harmony-cum-discordance avant-pop has finally crystallized into an art form all its own.
3. Califone {Roots And Crowns} (Thrill Jockey)
4. Subtle For Hero: For Fool (Lex)
 5. Bishop Allen January-December (Self-Released)
Despite juggling other jobs, touring and plotting material for their 2007 sophomore LP, this young, label-less and talented indie-pop duo recorded, produced and self-released a new four-song EP every month of 2006. Impressive, sure, but they didn’t scratch their way onto this list because of their diligence: Their songs are tight, jaunty three-minute gems that are guaranteed to land on every mix CD you make for your girlfriend from this point on.
6. Annuals Be He Me (Ace Fu)
7. Ghostface Fishscale (Def Jam)
 8. Oxford Collapse Remember The Night Parties (Sub Pop)
Within an indie-rock scene that continues to create more music that you need a slide rule to figure out (looking at you Fiery Furnaces), it’s refreshing to hear a record that can exist with the auspices of being, simply, a solid, no-nonsense indie-rock record. Credit Brooklyn’s Oxford Collapse for recognizing this and putting out an album that is as infectious, cohesive and outstanding as just about anything else this year, regardless of genre.
9. Hold Steady Boys And Girls In America (Vagrant)
10. Sunset Rubdown Shut Up I Am Dreaming (Absolutely Kosher)
TOP SINGLES
1. Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” (Downtown)
2. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead “Wasted State Of Mind” (Interscope)
3. Girl Talk “Smash Your Head” (Illegal Art)
4. Christina Aguilera “Ain’t No Other Man” (RCA)
5. Decemberists “O, Valencia” (Capitol)
MATTHEW FIELD, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
TOP ALBUMS
 1. TV On The Radio Return To Cookie Mountain (Interscope)
Switching out their drum machine for a flesh-and-blood rhythm section infused TVOTR’s sophomore full-length (and major label debut) with an organic swing heretofore absent, and as Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Mallone croon over the rich, kaleidoscopic textures of tracks like “Playhouses” and “Let The Devil In,” try—and fail—to name another name another album from 2006 that wields a fuzz-collage palette as robust and emotionally engaging.
2. Girl Talk Night Ripper (Illegal Art)
3. Iron Age Constant Struggle (Youngblood)
 4. Isobel Campbell And Mark Lanegan Ballad Of The Broken Seas (V2)
Campbell and Lanegan’s sweet and dour vocals, respectively, two-step around a concise survey of American roots music, and the result is as fetching as it is melancholy. Producing and writing most of the album herself, Campbell’s aesthetic conveys more genuine emotion than the corporate Nashville country music death machine could ever hope to replicate.
5. Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth (Crucial Blast)
6. The Knife Silent Shout (Mute)
 7. Fucked Up Hidden World (Jade Tree)
Few hardcore acts operate from such a focused set of principles, and even fewer intentionally and successfully obscure their MO as well as Fucked Up. After many singles and EPs, the enigmatic Toronto-based outfit’s debut LP lends hope that punk still has the potential to be both subversive and cerebral.
8. Xasthur Subliminal Genocide (Hydra Head)
9. Mastodon Blood Mountain (Reprise)
10. Hold Steady Boys And Girls In America (Vagrant)
TOP SINGLES
1. Iron Age “We’re Dust/The Violator” (Youngblood)
2. Liars “It Fit When I Was A Kid” (Mute)
3. Cloak/Dagger “Daggers Daggers” (Grave Mistake)
4. Jesu “Silver” (Hydra Head)
5. SpankRock “Rick Rubin” (Big Dada)
AMANDA FARAH, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
TOP ALBUMS
 1. Starless And Bible Black Starless And Bible Black (Locus)
This Mancunian trio layers finger-picked guitars, electronic noise and rich female vocals throughout songs ranging from happy-go-lucky to downright depressing. French transplant Hélène Gautier’s voice helps this debut stand miles ahead of your average singer-songwriter set up, and tunes penned by the madcap prolific genius Billy Childish don’t hurt either.
2. Punish The Atom I Cry Demolition! (48)
3. The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine (Sub Pop)
4. Various Artists Marie Antoinette (Verve Forecast)
 5.
William Elliott Whitmore Song Of The Blackbird (Southern)
Whitmore rounds out his trilogy of personal loss with more heartbreaking, banjo-backed tunes reflecting his country background and punk upbringing. Whitmore has also started experimenting with more complex arrangements, introducing his songs to a backing band. Roots rock has never been this accessible to the hardcore crowd.
6. Mojave 3 Puzzles Like You (4AD)
7. The Paper Chase Now You Are One Of Us (Kill Rock Stars)
8. What Made Milwaukee Famous Trying To Never Catch Up (Barsuk)
The Milwaukee boys play that brand of  energetic, danceable rock they only breed in Austin (their name is taken from a Jerry Lee Lewis tune). This re-release of their 2004 debut is full of solid melodies and undeniably catchy pop hooks. Songs like “Hellodrama” and “Bldg. A Boat…” are guaranteed to get hands clapping and feet stomping.
9. Boris Pink (Southern Lord)
10. Graham Coxon Love Travels At Illegal Speeds (Astralwerks)
TOP SINGLES
1. Jim Noir “Eenie Meanie” Jim Noir (Barsuk)
2. Mixel Pixel “Coming Up X’s” Mixel Pixel (Kanine)
3. The Blood Brothers “Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck” (V2)
4. Lady Sovereign “Love Me Or Hate Me” Lady Sovereign (Def Jam)
5. Oxford Collapse “Please Visit Your National Parks” (Sub Pop)
ALEX BILLIG, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
TOP ALBUMS
1. Joanna Newsom Ys (Drag City)
2. World/Inferno Friendship Society Red Eyed Soul (Chunksaah)
3. Jeffrey Lewis City And Eastern Songs (Rough Trade)
4. Sibylle Baier Colour Green (Orange Twin)
5. Beirut Gulag Orkestar (Ba Da Bing)
6. Final Fantasy He Poos Clouds (Tomlab)
7. Ane Brun A Temporary Dive (V2)
8. Blood Brothers Young Machetes (V2)
9. Noah Britton The Red Pony (H.I.G.)
10. Tom Waits Orphans (Anti-)
TOP SINGLES
1. Islands “Rough Gem” (Equator)
2. Matt And Kim “Silvertiles” (IHEARTCOMIX)
3. Mecca Normal “Attraction is Ephemeral” (Kill Rock Stars)
4. Fionn Regan “Put A Penny In The Slot” (Bella Union)
5. Mirah "La Familia [Guy Sigsworth Remix]" (K)
LAUREN DENITZIO, ART DIRECTOR
TOP ALBUMS
1. The Marked Men Fix My Brain (Swami)
2. Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti-)
3. Fifth Hour Hero Not Revenge...Just a Vicious Crush (Plan-It-X)
4. The Ergs Jersey’s Best Prancers (Don Giovanni)
5. The Ratchets Glory Bound (Pirates Press)
6. Paul Baribeau And Ginger Alford Darkness On The Edge Of Your Town (Self-Released)
7. The Loved Ones Keep Your Heart (Fat)
8. Mission of Burma The Obliterati (Matador)
9. Ringers Curses (1234 Go)
10. The Modern Machines Take it, Somebody! (Dirtnap)
TOP SINGLES
1. The Ergs “Jazz Is Like The New Coke” (Don Giovanni)
2. The Bouncing Souls “Lean on Sheena” (Epitaph)
3. The Dresden Dolls “Dirty Business” (Roadrunner)
4. The North Atlantic “Bottom of This Town” (We Put Out)
5. Gorilla Angreb “Long Island” (Armageddon)
JASON GLASTETTER, PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
TOP ALBUMS
1. Captain Ahab After The Rain My Heart Still Dreams (Deathbomb Arc)
2. Girl Talk Night Ripper (Illegal Art)
3. Man Man Six Demon Bag (Ace Fu)
4. Pony Up Make Love To The Judges With Your Eyes (Dim Mak)
5. Erase Errata Night Life (Kill Rock Stars)
6. Yip-Yip In The Reptile House (Saf)
7. The Walkmen Pussy Cats (Record Collection)
8. Mixel Pixel Music For Plants (Kanine)
9. Parts And Labor Stay Afraid (Brah/Jagjaguwar)
10. Snowden Anti Anti (Jade Tree)
And of course, Paris Hilton is #11...............
WINIFRED W. CHANE, DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, CMJ MUSIC MARATHON
TOP ALBUMS
1. Murder by Death In Bocca Al Lupo (Tent Show)
2. The Mars Volta Amputechture (Strummer/Universal)
3. TV On The Radio Return to Cookie Mountain (Interscope)
4. Green Milk From the Planet Orange City Calls Revolution (Beta-factam Ring)
5. Man Man Six Demon Bag (Ace Fu)
6. Wolfmother Wolfmother (Interscope)
7. The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers (V2/Third Man)
8. Aberdeen City The Freezing Atlantic (Dovecote/Red Ink)
9. The Slip Eisenhower (Bar/None)
10. Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere (Downtown)
TOP SINGLES
1. Murder by Death “Brother” (Tent Show)
2. TV On The Radio “Wolf Like Me” (Interscope)
3. Mohair “Stranded” (Grunion)
4. Hot Chip “Boy From School” (DFA/EMI)
5. Aberdeen City “Stay Still” (Dovecote/Red Ink)
MATT MCDONALD, CMJ SHOWCASE DIRECTOR
TOP ALBUMS
1. T.I. King (Atlantic)
2. TV On The Radio Return To Cookie Mountain (Interscope)
3. Jennifer O’Connor Over The Mountain, Across The Valley, And Back To The Stars (Matador)
4. Clipse Hell Hath No Fury (Re-Up Jive)
5. Ghostface Fishscale (Def Jam)
6. Boris Pink (Southern Lord)
7. Califone {Roots & Crowns} (Thrill Jockey)
8. The Hold Steady Boys And Girls In America (Vagrant)
9. Danielson Ships (Secretly Canadian)
10. (Tie) Benjy Ferree Leaving The Nest (Domino)/The Knife Silent Shout (Mute)
EVAN BROCK, WEB DESIGNER
TOP ALBUMS
1. The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta! (Fat)
2. The Velvet Teen Cum Laude! (Slowdance)
3. Christians & Lions More Songs For Dreamsleepers And The Very Awake (ECA)
4. Clawjob Space Crackers (Self-Released)
5. The Human Abstract Nocturne (Hopeless)
6. The Lot Six Get Baked On Youth Kulture (Plastic)
7. The Ladies They Mean Us (Temporary Residence)
8. No Trigger Canyoneer (Nitro)
9. Crime In Stereo The Troubled Stateside (Nitro)
10. Fifth Hour Hero Not Revenge Just A Vicious Crush (No Idea)
D.R. FINCH, ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
TOP ALBUMS
1. Gil Mantera’s Party Dream Bloodsongs (Fat Possum)
2. The Velvet Teen Cum Laude (Slowdance)
3. Mason Proper There Is A Moth Inside Your Chest (Dovecote)
4. Placebo Meds (Astralwerks)
5. Forward Russia Give Me A Wall (Mute)
6. Mohair Small Talk (Grunion)
7. The Features Contrast (Umvd)
8. Murder By Death In Bocca Al Lupo (Tent Show)
9. Mew And The Glass Handed Kites (Sony)
10. Ester Drang Rocinate (Jade Tree)
BRAD FILICKY, TRADESHOW MANAGER
TOP ALBUMS
1. Mew And The Glass Handed Kites (Sony)
2. Roots Game Theory (Def Jam)
3. The Coup Pick A Bigger Weapon (Epitaph)
4. Jenny Lewis And The Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
5. Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere (Downtown)
6. Decemberists The Crane Wife (Capitol)
7. Belle & Sebastian The Life Pursuit (Matador)
8. Camera Obscura Let’s Get Out Of This Country (Merge)
9. Queensryche Operation Mindcrime 2 (Rhino)
10. Calexico Garden Ruin (Quarter Stick)
PAUL BARETTA, DIRECTOR OF FINANCE
TOP ALBUMS
1. Two Gallants What The Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)
2. Elvis Costello And Allen Toussaint The River In Reverse (Verve Forecast)
3. Praxis Zurich (Innerrhythmic Found)
4. Medeski Scofield Martin And Wood Out Louder (Indirecto)
5. Beck The Information (Interscope)
6. Branford Marsalis Quartet Braggtown (Marsalis Music)
7. Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (Sony)
8. Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian (Nonesuch)
9. These Arms Are Snakes Easter (Jade Tree)
10. Bob Dylan Modern Times (Sony) |
