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Friday
15Dec
NME Albums of the Year 2006
Friday, December 15, 2006 at 22:29 
NME, a magazine more interested in indie-rock-gossip than indie-rock itself have unveiled their fifty albums of the year, and shock-horror, it's actually pretty good.
Naturally there's guff in there like The Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen and Panic!At the Disco, but all things considering the list is pretty stellar, with even cult (un)socially-approved trio The Longcut appearing, as well as The Secret Machines. The most surprising thing about the list though is the incredibly high position awarded to the Yeah Yeah Yeah's follow-up record "Show Your Bones", which was, indeed, one of my favourite records this year as well. One thing is for sure however with this list- Wolfmother certainly deserve a higher placing than forty seven...
1. Arctic Monkeys - ‘Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not’
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - ‘Show Your Bones’
3. Muse - ‘Black Holes And Revelations’
4. Hot Chip - ‘The Warning’
5. CSS - ‘Cansei De Ser Sexi’
6. Gnarls Barkley - ‘St Elsewhere’
7. Long Blondes - ‘Someone To Drive You Home’
8. The Strokes - ‘First Impressions Of Earth’
9. Kasabian - ‘Empire’
10. My Chemical Romance - ‘The Black Parade’
11. Howling Bells - ‘Howling Bells’
12. The Killers - ‘Sam’s Town’
13. Panic! At The Disco - ‘A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out’
14. TV On The Radio - ‘Return To Cookie Moutain’
15. Thom Yorke - ‘The Eraser’
16. Amy Winehouse - ‘Back To Black’
17. The Futureheads - ‘News And Tributes’
18. The Rapture - ‘Pieces Of The People We Love’
19. The Longcut - ‘A Call And Response’
20. The Streets - ‘The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living’
21. The Raconteurs - ‘Broken Boy Soldiers’
22. The Flaming Lips - ‘At War With The Mystics’
23. The Knife - ‘Silent Shout’
24. The Secret Machines - ‘Ten Silver Drops’
25. Mogwai - ‘Mr Beast’
26. Jarvis - ‘Jarvis’
27. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - ‘Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’
28. Morrissey - ‘Ringleader Of The Tormentors’
29. The Spinto Band - ‘Nice And Nicely Done’
30. Cat Power - ‘The Greatest’
31. The Sunshine Underground - ‘Raise The Alarm’
32. Lily Allen - ‘Alright, Still’
33. The Bronx - ‘The Bronx’
34. Albert Hammond Jr - ‘Yours To Keep’
35. Forward Russia - ‘Give Me A Wall’
36. Datarock - ‘Datarock’
37. Be Your Own Pet - ‘Be Your Own Pet’
38. Metric - ‘Live It Out’
39. The Young Knives - ‘Voices Of Animals And Men’
40. Midlake - ‘The Trials Of Van Occupanther’
41. The Gossip - ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’
42. The Automatic - ‘Not Accepted Anywhere’
43. Beck - ‘The Information’
44. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - ‘Ballad Of The Broken Seas’
45. Bob Dylan - ‘Modern Times’
46. Semi Finalists - ‘Semi Finalists’
47. Wolfmother - ‘Wolfmother’
48. Get Cape Wear Cape Fly - ‘The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager’
49. Absentee - ‘Schmotime’
50. The Kooks - ‘Inside In/Inside Out’
Tuesday
17Oct
The Killers- "Sam's Town"
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 at 21:18 
I picked up (and went to the counter to pay for) The Killers' new record at the weekend.
As I read elsewhere, the first play was really dissapointing, and initial thoughts was that the band had clearly lost all of their style and substance evident in their debut album. But listening to the album tonight, it's just as accomplished (if not more so) than "Hot Fuss".
For starters, the record is a lot more confident. Songs are epic, huge powering anthems, that will leave choruses in your head for weeks to come, while sprinkles of synth-rock still populate many of these tracks, helping to bridge a gap between the last album and this, this, the radical departure and reinvention. Lyrically a lot of the songs are still the age-old formula of "boy loves girl", but again, and surprisingly so, these are just more elements left over from the last record and placed comfortably within each of the tracks. Brandon's voice also seems to be a lot more focussed this time round, a lot clearer, and again, full of confidence.
I think there's a slight chance a lot of previous fans will be turned off (if anything because of the band's new found popularity), but those first repeated listens are essential if you're to take this record seriously. Unfortunately this album suffers the problem of being something of a slowburner, but like all great records that possess this same atribute, the album gets better with each listen. "Bones" should be listened to religiously and will help influence your decision in liking the album, and if anything, is undoubtedly the highlight.
A fantastic follow-up to one of THE bands of 2004, "Sam's Town" sees the Nevada synth-rockers continue their momentum, improving on some of the elements that made them so good in the first place, as well as introducing echoes of something you never expected from them in the first place. The album is a slow burner, and does need some repeated listens, but it's worth it, and in my eyes, is a tenner well spent.
The future is going to be huge for these guys.
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