Mike Appelstein Top 10 - 2006

And here's my top 10, coming from the cutting-edge perspective of a Midwestern 40-year-old ex-hipster:

1) Slumber Party: Musik
2) Belle & Sebastian: The Life Pursuit *
3) The Mountain Goats: Get Lonely
4) The Long Blondes: Someone To Drive You Home
5) Yo La Tengo: I Am Not Afraid of...Your Ass
6) Broadcast: The Future Crayon
7) Camera Obscura: Let's Get Out Of This Country
8) Love Is All: Nine Times That Same Song
9) Mission of Burma: The Obliterati
10) The Loud Family: What If It Works? *

* granted, hardly their best efforts, but I did like and listen to them a lot

My top 5 reissues: Delta 5, This Heat, CD86, Josef K and Ut. Predictable.

 Mike Appelstein (Caught in flux zine/ The Poconos)