Here are some of my favorites of the year. Songs at least, the whole
album wasn’t always the best. I started out with 80 things and managed
to squeeze in 50 which is pretty good but still left out the Busy Signals, The
Fall, We Are Wolves, etc. No order except the last 4 were tops of the year.
The Horrors | Count in Fives | Psychotic Sounds for Freaks & Weirdos | Polydor | CD07
Pink Fits | Bible Basher | Fuzzyard Gravebox | Off the Hip | CD 06
Kinski | Punching Good Bye Out Front | Down Below It’s Chaos | Sub Pop | CD 07
Boris | Woman on the Screen | Pink | Southern Lord | CD 06
The Maggots | It’s Not Me, It’s You | Monkey Time | Wicked Cool | CD 07
Descolada | Lucker | s/t | Angura Sound | CD 07
Epsilons | Cecilia | Killed Em Deader… | Retard Discs | CD 07
Against Me | Americans Abroad | New Wave | Sire | CD 07
Akimbo | The Curse of King David | Navigating the Bronze | Alternative Tentacles | CD 07
The Retainers | She Likes to Get Attention | single | Plastic Idol | 7″ 07
Les Breastfeeders | Chanson Pour Destinee | Blow the Fuse | CD 06
Love Kills Theory | Suicide Girls | Happy Suicide Jim | Xemu | CD 07
Radon | Turn in Your Balls | Metric Buttloads of Rock | No Idea | CD 07
The Time Flys | Spotty Kid | Rebels of Babylon | Birdman | CD 07
The Heart Attacks | Stay/Go | single | Plastic Idol | 7″ 07
Loser Life | It’s All Over | Going Underground | 7″ 06
Cloak/Dagger | Hollywood Hills | We Are | Jade Tree | CD 07
Panthers | Hey Creep | The Trick | Vice | CD 07
Switches | Drama Queen | We Are Switches EP | Interscope | CD 07
The Intellectuals | We Are Cells | Invisible is Best | Dead Beat | CD 07
Hero Dishonest | Crawl Song | When the Shit Hits the Man | Acme | CD 06
Wolf & Cub | Seeds of Doubt | Vessels | Mute | CD 07
The Cynics | Last Mistake | Here We Are | Get Hip | CD 07
Clorox Girls | Caught in the Middle | J’aime les Filles | BYO | CD 07
Hospital Rats | Can’t Talk | Tour CD | – | CD 07
Mando Diao | Welcome Home Luc Robitaille | Ode to Ochrasy | Mute | CD 07
The Blakes | Two Times | s/t | Light in the Attic | CD 07
The Deaf | You Know | This Bunny Bites | Learning Curve | CD 07
The Clutters | Let it Roll | Don’t Believe a Word | Chicken Ranch | CD 07
Sack-o-Woes | Afterlife | Baby I’m Born Old EP | Loop Rekords | 7″ 05
The Chelsea Smiles | Heart Attack | Thirty Six Hours Later | Acetate | CD 07
Brutal Knights | I Do Nothing | Feast of Shame | Deranged | CD 07
The Carbonas | Trapped in Hell | s/t | Goner | LP 07
Red Dons | Happiness | Death to Idealism | Deranged | CD 07
Wolfmen | TV’s on, John Wayne’s Just Been Shot Again | single | Damaged Goods | 7″ 07
Arctic Monkeys | Brianstorm | Favourite Worst Nightmare | Domino | CD 07
Armitage Shanks | Me & Yer Granny on Bongos | EP | Cock Energy | 7″ 07
Clouds | Pressure | Legendary Demo | Hydra Head | CD 07
Bob Burns & the Breakups | I Hate the City | Terminal Breakdown | Gearhead | CD 07
The Flatliners | You Guys Want One of These | The Great Awake | Fat | CD 07
Modern Life is War | Farmer’s Holiday Association | My Love My Way | Deathwish | CD 07
The Blackjax | Young Blood | You Only Get One Shot at the Big Time comp | Wizzard in Vinyl | CD 07
J Church | The King | The Horror of Life | No Idea | CD 07
The Griefs | Bored Outta my Gourd | Throwing a Tempo Tantrum | Spoonful | LP 07
Young Gods | Freeze | s/t | Ipecac | CD 07
Demon’s Claws | Unemployment | Satan’s Little Pet Pig | In the Red | CD 07
Cococoma | Premonition | EP | Shit Sandwich | 7″ 06
High Tension Wires | Outsider | Midnight Cashier | Dirtnap | CD 07
The Love Me Nots | Voice in my Head | In Black & White | Atomic A Go Go | CD 06
The Whore Moans | I Say Blood Three Times | Watch Out for This Thing | Wizard House | CD 06