best of 2006

In no order you’d care to guess:

• The Information — Beck
• Awoo — Hidden Cameras
• The Optimist’s Club — Casper & the Cookies
• Cue Are Es Tea You — Mayor McCa
• The Sole Inhabitant — Thomas Dolby
• The Jig Is Up — Peter Stampfel
• Black Gold — King Biscuit Time
• Calico — Erynn Marshall
• Ys — Joanna Newsom
• Olé! Tarantula — Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3
• Cannibal Sea — The Essex Green
• Just Like The Fambly Cat — Grandaddy
• Back To The Web — Elf Power
• The Eraser — Thom Yorke
• The Crane Wife — The Decemberists
• either Tales of the Rat Fink Original Soundtrack or In Concert Vol. 1 — The Sadies
• The Way the Wind Blows — A Hawk and a Hacksaw

Discoveries of 2006: Karen Dalton, Nic Jones, Lee Hammons.