Every year if you search on blogs “the best albums of the year” you will see a lot of choices and recommendations from authors who write about music, unfortunately they just copy/paste and shuffle the suggestions from sites like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin or others sites, so the resulting lists are a shame because there’s really no space for albums who did not have all the support, promotion or buzz, in addition to all that, we don’t share that particular point of view, we think that you can’t determine which ones are the best because it really depends on each person. Anyway, along the year we recommend our traditional album of the month which we consider a little bit of “good” music from la suite 303 staff, for that reason here are the albums of the month of 2006, so here is a list with some albums that we think you must, somehow, make yours.

CCS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
Casper & The Cookies - The Optimist’s Club
Cyndi Seui - Micro Bitz Life
V.A. - Girlmonster
Juana Molina - Son
Pauline En La Playa - Silabario
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Quiero Club - Wof
Jenny Wilson - Love And Youth

And our monthly selections:

December: Koop - Koop Islands
November: Héctor Buitrago - Conector
October: Buffalo Daughter - Euphorica
September: Sabrina Malheiros - Vibrasons
August: Quantic - An Announcement To Answer
July: Herbert - Scale
June: Aphex Twin - Chosen Lords
May: Gotan Project - Lunático
April: V.A. - Nu Jazz Vol. 2
March: Gilles Peterson - Worldwide Exclusives and/or Sergio Mendes - Timeless
February: Saint Etienne - Tales From Turnpike House
January: Kelley Polar - Love Songs Of The Hanging Gardens

I hope this year we can have more time to write about the music that we love. Have a nice 2007.

“The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing”:
James Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006)