Top Albums of 2006

I haven't had any time lately (and probably shouldn't be doing this now, but hey I need a break ;D) to make any more lists, but here are my favourite albums of 2006, a fairly weak year I thought, 2005 & 2007 are both much better, this is my top 40.

1. Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
2. CunninLynguists - A Piece Of Strange
3. Tapes n' Tapes - The Loon
4. The Twilight Singers - Powder Burns
5. Chad VanGaalen - Skelliconnection
6. The Living End - State Of Emergency
7. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
8. Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage
9. Devastations - Coal
10. Sparta - Threes
11. Embrace - This New Day
12. MSTRKRFT - The Looks
13. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
14. Robert Pollard - From A Compound Eye

15. (+44) - When Your Heart Stops Beating

16. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liqour
17. Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things
18. M. Ward - Post-War
19. The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
20. The Church - Uninvited, Like The Clouds
21. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
22. Mute Math - s/t
23. The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
24. Grandaddy - Just Like The Fambly Cat
25. Barenaked Ladies - ...Are Me
26. Idle Sons - Sixteen Seasons
27. Sam Roberts - Chemical City
28. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
29. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
30. Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther
31. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
32. Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails, Red Wine
33. Evermore - Real Life
34. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
35. The Futureheads - News & Tributes
36. Annuals - Be He Me
37. Neil Young - Prairie Wind
38. All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals
39. The Panda Band - This Vital Chapter
40. Liars - Drums Not Dead