Best Music of 2006
compiled by Octavo's Mark Burrier
(Email Mark to let him know what he missed.)

1. Danielson “Ships”
2. TV On The Radio “Return from Cookie Mountain”
3. The Radio Dept. “Pet Grief”
4. Neko Case “Fox Confessor Brings The Flood”
5. M. Ward “Post-War”
6. The Decemberists “The Crane Wife”
7. The Knife “Silent Shout”
8. Junior Boys “So This is Goodbye”
9. Morrissey “Ringleader of the Tormentors”
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Show Your Bones”
11. Camera Obscura “Let’s Get Out of This Country”
12. Sonic Youth “Rather Ripped”
13. Thom Yorke “The Eraser”
14. Black Heart Procession “The Spell”
15. The Mountain Goats “Get Lovely”
16. Phoenix “It’s Never Been Like That”
17. Pajo “1968”
18. Jeremy Enigk “World Waits”
19. Cat Power “The Greatest”
20. Maritime “We, the Vehicles”
21. Aloha “Echoes”
22. Viva Voce “Gonna Get Yr Blood Sucked Out”
23. Califone “Roots and Crowns”
24. Liars “Drums Not Dead”
25. Rainer Maria “Catastrophe”

Honorable mentions: Joanna Newsom “Ys”, The Walkmen “100 Miles Off”, Tapes ‘n’ Tapes “The Loon”, Starflyer 59 “My Island”, I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness “Fear Is On Our Side”, Early Day Miners “Offshore”, The Fiery Furnaces “Bitter Tea”, Oneida “Happy New Year”, mewithoutYou “Brother, Sister”, Make Believe “Of Course”, Low Skies “All The Love I Could Find”, Love Is All “Nine Times That Same Song”, Keane “Under The Iron Sea”, His Name Is Alive “Detrola”, French Kicks “Two Thousand”, Don Caballero “World Class Listening Problem”, The Dears “Gang of Losers”, Damien Jurado "And Now That I'm In Your Shadow", Comets on Fire “Avatars”, Calexico “Garden Ruin”, Built to Spill "You In Reverse", Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy "The Letting Go", Belle & Sebastian “The Hot Pursuit”, Beck “The Information”, Band of Horses “Everything All The Time”