The Knife Top Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of the Year

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Pitchfork has put together their Top 50 Albums of 2006 and surprisingly, the Swedish duo, The Knife, took their top pick for their album "Silent Shout":

"Entering the year, could there have been a more unexpected consensus pick for 2006 than the Knife? OK, so the Swedish brother/sister duo got a boost from the Sony Bravia commercial featuring José Gonzalez' rendition of their brilliant "Heartbeats", and that exposure served as unintended cross-promo for Silent Shout, helping anoint them among the upper echelons of this year's blog-rock royalty. But nothing else on the blogs sounded like this. Masters of their own record label, Rabid, the Knife may be indie, but nowhere would their shuddering trance arpeggios and steely technoid programming qualify as "rock."

Rounding out the top 10 are:

02: TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain [4AD/Interscope]

03: Joanna Newsom Ys [Drag City]

04: Ghostface Killah Fishscale [Def Jam]

05: The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America [Vagrant]

 06: Liars Drum's Not Dead [Mute]

 07: Clipse Hell Hath No Fury [Jive] 

 08: Grizzly Bear Yellow House [Warp]

 09: Boris Pink [Diwphalanx/Southern Lord]

10 The Drift [4AD]

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