
Dashboard Confessional, Dusk and Summer (Vagrant/Interscope): Emo’s best singer-songwriter + Joshua Tree production = gorgeous pop-rock no one should call you a pussy for loving.
Tha Dogg Pound, Cali Iz Active (Doggy Style/Koch): Snoop and friends throw a party that’s merely a’ight; Diddy wears the lampshade.
Dr. Octagon, The Return of Dr. Octagon (OCD): Madman gynecologist MC comes back with electro-happy German production team.
India.Arie, Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship (Motown): Soul folkie tackles God, breakups, and her hair on popwise third album.
Katharine McPhee “Somewhere Over the Rainbow/My Destiny” (19 Recordings Ltd./RCA): Idol runner-up out-schmaltzes Taylor Hicks.
Pet Shop Boys, Fundamental (Rhino): Cogitates like a short story collection, pops like their Eighties classics, grooves like a disco inferno.
Shawnna, Block Music (Disturbing Tha Peace/Def Jam South): Buddy Guy’s rapper daughter standing tits-to-pecs with Ludacris, Lil’ Wayne.
Björk, Surrounded (Rhino, June 27, 2006): Seven-disc reissue of her mostly great albums, with DVD audio, phantasmagoric videos.
Dr. Dre, Death Row Classics: Chronicles (Death Row): Enough Snoop Dogg and classic G-funk to warrant putting $$$ into Suge Knight’s pocket.
The Specials, Greatest Hits (Big Eye/Cleopatra): Twelve hot cuts from world’s greatest ska band.

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