first, i make no claim to have any indie cred whatsoever.
Second, these are in alphabetical (i.e. not ranked) order
1. The Album Leaf – In A Safe Place (Sub Pop)
2. Alexi Murdoch – Time Without Consequence (Zero Summer)
3. Anathallo – Floating World (Nettwerk)
4. Clearlake – Amber (Domino)
5. Ellen Allien & Apparat -Orchestra of Bubbles (Bpitch Control)
6. The Format – Dog Problems (Nettwerk)
7. Gomez – How We Operate (ATO)
8. The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America (Vagrant)
9. Lacuna Coil – Karmacode (Century Media)
10. Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs – Under the Covers, Volume 1 (Shout! Factory)
Honorable Mentions:
Men Women and Children – Men Women and Children (warner)
Electric Six РSe̱or Smoke
Portobella – Viva La Difference (not out yet)(www.myspace.com/portobellauk)
(i reserve the right to add ‘honorable mentions’ through 12/31.
Jeremy’s Top Albums of 2006
