Half Way to Nowhere (Somewhere)

I had been planning to do a week's worth of album reviews based on last year's "the best so far" format (i.e. Weeklies 7.1 through 7.4), but work and the World Cup and basic laziness prevented me from getting too far in the proceedings this time around. So, representing a classic case of "posting for the sake of posting," here's an entirely text-based list of worthwhile 2006 listening material, with review links where applicable.

Arab Strap - The Last Romance
Asobi Seksu - Citrus
Augie March - Moo, You Bloody Choir
Cassandra Wilson - Thunderbird
Centro-matic - Fort Recovery
Cibelle - The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves
Gomez - How We Operate
Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac
Shearwater - Palo Santo

And honourable mention for Thom Yorke's The Eraser, which, although it is a completely unsurprising and frustratingly passive album, is still of better quality than most of the dreck that graces our ears these days.