So I was bored and wrote a list consisting of albums I listened to this year, and a rough personal opinion. The "genre" is noted because people might want to check out some, and genres help get a better idea of what you will most likely enjoy. So don't call me a genre whore please. Also I hope I can get recommendations on what worthy stuff I have missed in what has passed of this year.
Also this list will change by the end of the year, probably.
So, here goes, my first best of <year> list!
Albums
Awesome
Converge - No Heroes [Hardcore]
Envy - Insomniac Doze [Screamo]
Gregor Samsa - 55:12 [Post-rock]
Laura - Radio Swan is Down [Post-rock]
These Arms Are Snakes - Easter [Post-hardcore]
Great/quite good
Blueneck - Scars of the Midwest [Post-rock]
Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway [Sludge]
Cursive - Happy Hollow [Indie]
Gantz - Les Chambre des Morts [Sludgy screamo]
Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth [Grind]
Grails - The Black Tar Prophecies Vols 1, 2, 3 [Post-rock]
Isis - In The Absence of Truth [Sludge]
Islands - Return to the Sea [Indie]
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance [Doom?]
Magyar Posse - Random Avenger [Post-rock]
Mogwai - Mr. Beast [Post-rock]
Mono - You are there [Post-rock]
Mouth of the Architect - The Ties that Blind [Sludge]
Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart etc etc [Post-rock]
Russian Circles - Enter [Post-rock]
Set Your Goals - Mutiny! [Melodic hardcore]
Sickoakes - Seawards [Post-rock]
té - Naraba etc etc [Post-rock]
The Appleseed Cast - Peregrine [Indie]
The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics [Alternative/Experimental/Indie/idk]
Ok (enough)
Built to Spill - You in reverse [Indie]
Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue [Avant-garde]
Lebanon - Sunken City [Post-rock]
Let Airplanes Circle Overhead - Let Airplanes Circle Overhead [Post-rock]
Mt. - Lethologica [Post-rock]
My Dad vs Yours - After Winter Must Come Spring [Post-rock]
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped [Alt. rock]
Sparrows Swarm and Sing - O' Shenandoah etc [Post-rock]
Thom Yorke - The Eraser [Alt. rock]
Tool - 10,000 Days [Prog Metal?]
(Not) ok (enough)
Band of Horses - Everything all the time [Indie]
Capulet - The world is a tragic place etc etc [Post-rock]
Don Caballero - World Class Listening Problem [Math rock]
Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar [Drone]
The Album Leaf - Into the Blue, Again [Electronica/Post-rock]
The Mars Volta - Amputechture [Prog rock]
Memorable EPs/Splits/Demos/etc
andydicktracymorganfreeman - So to say, not to say, and these are things EP [Post-rock]
Genghis Tron - Cape of Hate EP [Grindcore (Electronica remixes though)]
God Is an Astronaut - A Moment of Stillness [Post-rock]
I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism in Your Yearbook - 8 song demo [Screamo]
Isis & Aereogramme - In the Fishtank 14 [Post-rock?]
Jesu - Silver EP [Doom Sludge Whatever]
Maybeshewill - Japanese Spy Transcript EP [Post-rock]
Mouth of the Architect/
Kenoma - split [Sludge]
Ours to Alibi - The Kite EP [Post-rock?]
These Monsters... - these monsters EP [Post-rock]
Tides - From Silence EP [Sludge]
The Sea, Like Lead/
Belegost - split [Post-rock]
Stuff that could count
Boris - Pink (I think it was re-released or released in America this year or something)
This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain (label re-release?)
Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss (re-released with one new track)
Stuff I have to check out
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
An Albatross - blessphemy of the peace beast feastgiver and the bear warp kumite
Beck - The Information
Boards of Canada - Trans Canada Highway EP
Boris - The Thing That Solomon Overlooked Vol. 2
Boris - The Thing That Solomon Overlooked Vol. 3
Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
I Would Set Myself on Fire for You - believes in patterns
Mogwai - Zidane
My Education - Moody Dipper
OM - Conference Of The Birds
Pyramids - following the tracks, forcing motion through phases
Underoath - Define The Great Line (lol?)
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Various other post-rock
... and whatever else you can add!
Looking forward to in 2007
New
Caspian
Explosions in the Sky - Explosions in the Sky?
Jesu - Conqueror
New
Radiohead?
These Monsters...
