2006: Top of the crop

1) Tom Waits - Orphans











2) Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go











3) Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye












4) Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That












5) Hot Chip - The Warning











6) Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming











7) My Morning Jacket - Okonokos












8) M. Ward - Post-War












9) TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain












10) Malajube - Trompe L'Oeil











11) The Knife - Silent Shout
12) Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
13) Lo-Fi-Fnk - Boylife
14) Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
15) Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
16) Ghostface - Fishscale
17) Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
18) Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
19) Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
20) Lambchop - Damaged
21) Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
22) Neil Young - Living With War
23) The DFA - The DFA Remixes: Chapter One
24) Jason Molina - Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go
25) Band of Horses - Everything All The Time