Top 19 Album Covers of 2006 (and one from 2007)

Well, here it is, the very last day of 2006 and here at ThaBombShelter we've got two great Top X lists to close out the year in music. This list, lovingly compiled by the GF, will cover the snazziest album art of the past year. Her meticulous collection of album art puts my horribly disorganized iTunes library to shame. This fact - combined with education and experience as an honest to god artist - leaves her as the resident album cover expert, therefore the task of putting this list together fell to her by default. And now, without further ado, in alphabetical order, the Top 19 Album Covers of 2006 (and one from 2007).

"Some Echoes" Aloha
"The Information" Beck
"Gulag Orkestar" Beirut
"Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited" Various Artists
"Curse Your Little Heart EP" Devotchka
"At War With the Mystics" The Flaming Lips
"Yellow House" Grizzly Bear
"Through The Window Pane" Guillemots
"The Warning" Hot Chip
"Return to the Sea" Islands
"The Dust of Retreat" Margot and the Nuclear So-and-So's
"Men, Women, and Children" Men, Women, and Children
"Bring in the Workhorse" My Brightest Diamond
"Till the Sun Turns Black" Ray LaMontagne
"Carnavas" Silversun Pickups
"The Avalanche" Sufjan Stevens
"Lanzafame" Tap Tap
"The Eraser" Thom Yorke
"Songbird" Willie Nelson
And one for 2007, "Human Like a House" The Finches

Most of the images courtesy of Amazon.com via SlothRadio