Feel free to disagree with me, but in my humble opinion that new YYYs album is really boring. It sounds like every "alternative rock" album recorded in the past ten years, all rolled into one big unsightly katamari of homogeneity.
My top 5 records of 2006 list looks like this, so far:
1) TV on the Radio*
2) Liars
3) Mogwai
4) Islands*
5) Wilderness*
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