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RECORDS OF THE YEAR
Ever
wonder what records really get the OIB collective to spaz out and get
crunk? Well wonder no more. Here’s the OIB top records of 2006!
1.
Mono – You Are There
One of the most exciting bands from one of the most exciting
scenes on the planet. Japans' Mono returned with their most complex record
to date, a pure collage of delicate dream-like euphoria and vast washes
of harrowing and intense noise.
2.
Liars – Drums Not Dead
2006 was the year that everything fell together for the
Liars. Openly shunning their original aggressive punk-funk sound the Liars
made the only logical move they could and made the pilgrimage to the motherland
of bleak industrial noise that is Berlin. Smoothing over the cracks of
'They Were Wrong So We Drowned' this is the album that the Liars always
threatened to make. Vast, complex and exceptionally dark.
3.
Tool – 10,000 Days
Five years in the making, 10,000 Days saw Tool return
with a venom so powerful that the entire nation seemed paralyzed as Maynard
and Co reclaimed their crown as the godfathers of progressive metal.
4.
Tom Waits – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Orphans is a frank and beautiful portrait of a true musical
legend. Containing over 30 new songs, Orphans encompasses every influential
side of Waits from his delicate heartfelt ballads through to his mental-health
questioning violent freak-outs. A masterpiece of a record that should
finally give Waits the mainstream credibility he surely deserves.
5.
Tim Hecker – Harmonies in Ultraviolet
Harmonies in Ultraviolet is Tim Hecker's sixth and most
accomplished album. It's 50 beautiful minutes of white noise, dense decaying
chords, whirring harmonic drones and violent washes of synth. It's a beautiful,
rich and emotive world that you truly owe it to yourself to explore.
6.
Decapitated – Organic Halucinosis
Organic Halucinosis is Polish technical death-metal Decipated's
most advanced recording to date. While their earlier albums lacked creative
diversity 'Organic Halucinosis' is a rich tapestry of frantic, almost
speed-death guitar work, powerful industrial vocals and relentless blast
beats. Party Music!
7.
Kaada – Music for Motorbikers
This record could only be made by a Norwegian. In 'Music
for Motorbikes' Kaada takes us upon a journey through the woods of his
twisted fairytale of beautiful, yet haunting melodrama. Each of the 13
tracks on this record emote a mood or a moment in your life, each a self-contained
soundtrack yet somehow moulding together into a rich tapestry that you
feel shouldn't exist. At times dark and sparse but always full of youthful
hope and tenderness.
8.
Herbert – Scale
Scale is Matthew Herbert's masterpiece. An amalgamation
of every musical style he's dared to put his name to. It's a dense complex
record full of funky house beats, contemporary jazz arrangements, rich
cinematic strings, delicate pop vocals, and innovative experimental song
structuring.
9.
Sparks – Propaganda (21st Century Edition)
The '21st Century Edition' of Propaganda is a beautiful
reminder of how truly important Sparks are. Full of demented, sinister
pop songs Propaganda is a magnificent blend of pop, glam and prog. This
reissue also incorporates new liner notes, pictures, bonus tracks, and
even a seven-minute interview!
10.
Asobi Seksu – Citrus
Citrus, their sophomore release, sees Brooklyn-based and
female-fronted Asobi Seksu (loose translation "playful sex")
pull out all the stops. There's a new sense of emergency here as they
build upon the shoegazer and neo-goth sentiments of their debut with raw
and confronting garage rock and heavily reverbed densely sensual Japanese/English
vocals. Impressive stuff indeed.
11.
Lair Of The Minotaur - The Ultimate Destroyer
12. Tortoise – A Lazarus Taxon
13. Joanna Newsom – Y's
14. Comets On Fire - Avatar
15. Mouse on Mars- Varcharz
16. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - House
Arrest
17. Beach House - Beach House
18. Boards of Canada – Trans Canada
Highway
19. Anaal Nathrakh - Eschaton
20. M Ward - Post-war
21. Howe Gelb- Sno Angel Like You
22. Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines
Toward The Red Sun
23. Zyklon - Disintergrate
24. Boris - Pink
25. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
26. Belong - October Language
27. Vetiver - To Find Me Gone
28. Sparks – Indiscreet (21st Century
Editions reissue)
29. The Race - Be Your Alibi
30. Juana Molina – Son
31. Sunn/Boris – Altar
32. The Pipettes – We Are The Pipettes
33. Oneida - Happy New Year
34. Bjork – Surrounded
35. Jel – Soft Money
36. Sloan - Never Hear the End of It
37. Micah P Hinson - Micah P Hinson and the
Opera Circuit
38. Daughters – Hell Songs
39. Converge – No Heroes
40. Jesu - Silver
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