Album of the Year
- Current 93, "Black Ships Ate The Sky" (Durtro/Jnana)
- Scott Walker, "The Drift" (4AD)
- Liars, "Drum's Not Dead" (Mute)
- Wolf Eyes, "Human Animal" (Sub Pop)
- Little Annie, "Songs From The Coal Mine Canary" (Durtro/Jnana)
- Comets on Fire, "Avatar" (Sub Pop)
- Matmos, "The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast" (Matador)
- Espers, "II" (Drag City)
- Charalambides, "A Vintage Burden" (Kranky)
- Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, "The Letting Go" (Drag City)
- Jandek, "Glasgow Monday" (Corwood)
- Jessica Bailiff, "Feels Like Home" (Kranky)
- Xiu Xiu, "The Air Force" (5 Rue Christine)
- Lisa Germano, "In the Maybe World" (Young God)
- Boris, "Pink" (Southern Lord)
- Magnolia Electric Co., "Fading Trails" (Secretly Canadian)
- Rivulets, "You Are My Home" (Important)
- Whitehouse, "Asceticists 2006" (Susan Lawly)
- Andrew Liles, "The Dying Submariner" (Beta-Lactam Ring)
- Six Organs of Admittance, "The Sun Awakens" (Drag City)
- The Legendary Pink Dots, "Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves" (ROIR)
- Volcano the Bear, "Classic Erasmus Fusion" (Beta-Lactam Ring)
- Sunn O))) & Boris, "Altar" (Southern Lord)
- Rhythm & Sound, "See Mi Yah Remixes" (Burial Mix)
- Joanna Newsom, "Ys" (Drag City/Rough Trade)
- Tim Hecker, "Harmony in Ultraviolet" (Kranky)
- Boris, "Dronevil Final" (Inoxia)
- Belong, "October Language" (Carpark)
- The Matinee Orchestra, "The Matinee Orchestra" (Arble)
- Andrew Chalk, "Blue Eyes of the March" (Faraway Press)
- Beirut, "Gulag Orkestar" (Ba Da Bing!)
- The Caretaker, "theoretically pure anterograde amnesia" (V/VM)
- James Blackshaw, "O True Believers" (Important)
- Accelera Deck, "A Landslide Of Stars" (Scarcelight)
- Sandoz, "Life in the Earth" (Soul Jazz)
- Keith Fullerton Whitman, "Lisbon" (Kranky)
- Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno , "Starless And Bible Black Sabbath" ( Alien8 Recordings)
- Bardo Pond, "Ticket Crystals" (ATP)
- Benoit Pioulard, "Precis" (Kranky)
- Boduf Songs, "Lion Devours the Sun" (Kranky)
- Jazzfinger, "Autumn Engines" (Rebis)
- Kilgore Trout, "Two Yards Low the history of MXIII" (elseproduct)
- Michael Cashmore, "Sleep England" (Durtro/Jnana)
- Taurpis Tula, "Morden Towerings" (American Tapes)
- Charlemagne Palestine & Tony Conrad, "An Aural Symbiotic Mystery" (Sub Rosa)
- The Knife, "Silent Shout" (Rabid)
- Mogwai, "Mr. Beast" (Matador)
- Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice, "Gypsy Freedom" (5RC)
- Miss Violetta Beauregarde, "Odi Profanum Vulgus Et Arceo" (Temporary Residence)
- MV & EE with The Bummer Road, "Mother of Thousands" (Time Lag)
Single of the Year
- Current 93/OM, "Inerrant Rays of Infallible Sun (Blackship Shrinebuilder)" (Neurot/Durtro)
- Jesu, "Silver" (Hydra Head)
- A Place to Bury Strangers, "Never Going Down" (Self)
- I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, "According to Plan" (Secretly Canadian)
- Delia Gonzales and Gavin Russom, "Relevee" (DFA)
- Black Sun Productions, "Im Gegentil" (Sheela-Na-Gig)
- Fovea Hex, "Huge" (Janet Records)
- By The End Of Tonight, "The Imaginary EP" (Temporary Residence)
- Barry Adamson, "An Album Club Exclusive" (Central Control)
- Songs Of Green Pheasant, "Aerial Days" (Fatcat)
- Thee More Shallows, "Monkey vs. Shark" (Monotreme)
- Boards Of Canada, "Trans Canada Highway" (Warp)
- Aereogramme, "Seclusion" (Sonic Unyon)
- Arab Strap, "The Shy Retirer" (Self Published)
- Ensemble, "Disown, Delete" (Fatcat)
Vault Release (it's a reissue, compilation, boxed set, etc,...)
- Coil, "The Remote Viewer" (Threshold House)
- Arab Strap, "10 Years Of Tears" (Chemikal Underground)
- Coil, "Black Antlers" (Threshold House)
- John Cale, "Paris 1919" (WEA)
- Tortoise, "A Lazarus Taxon" (Thrill Jockey)
- AFX, "Chosen Lords" (Rephlex)
- Frank Tovey, "Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey" (Mute)
- This Heat, "Out of Cold Storage" (ReR)
- Tom Waits, "Orphans, Bawlers and Brawlers" (Anti)
- White Mice, "White Mice" (Basic Replay)
- Wire, "1977-1979" (Pink Flag)
- Greater Than One, "Kill the Pedagogue" (Brainwashed)
- Nurse With Wound, "An Awkward Pause" (United Jnana)
- Arthur Russell, "Another Thought" (Orange Mountain Music)
- Nurse With Wound, "Rat Tapes One" (United Diaries)
Various Artist Collection of the Year
- "Not Alone" (Jnana)
- "Brainwaves" (Brainwashed)
- "Killing Sound" (Razor X)
- "Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies from the Canyon" (Numero)
- "The Larry Levan Story" (Rhino)
Artist of the Year
- Current 93
- Coil
- Arab Strap
- Scott Walker
- Jesu
- Belong
- Sufjan Stevens
- Bardo Pond
- Liars
- Matmos
- Nurse With Wound
- Jandek
- The Knife
- Tom Waits
- Wolf Eyes
New Artist of the Year
- Beirut
Record Label of the Year
- Jnana (in all fairness includes Durtro Jnana and United Jnana releases)
- Threshold House
- Brainwashed (what? we're not a real record label!)
- Kranky
- Mute
- Drag City
- Important
- 4AD
- Chemikal Underground
- ATP
- Carpark
- Sub Pop
- Hydra Head
- Southern Lord
- Wackies
- Fat Cat
- 5 Rue Christine
- Matador
- Beta-Lactam Ring
- Soul Jazz
- Numero
- Secretly Canadian
- Temporary Residence
- DFA
- Ba Da Bing!
Music Video of the Year
- Boards of Canada, "Dayvan Cowboy"
- I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, "The Owl"
- Bonnie "Prince" Billy, "Cursed Sleep"
- Delia Gonzales and Gavin Russom, "Relevee"
- Boduf Songs, "Two Across The Mouth"
- Hot Chip, "Over and Over"
- Peaches, "Downtown"
- Scott Walker, "Jesse"
- I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, "According to Plan"
- Xiu Xiu, "Boy Soprano"
- Broken Social Scene, "I'm Still Your Fag"
- Aereogramme, "Dreams and Bridges"
- The Knife, "Marble House"
- The Threshold Houseboys Choir, "Part 1"
- Mojave 3, "Breaking the Ice"
- Adem, "Launch Yourself"
- Dr. Octagon, "Aliens"
- Jessica Bailiff, "Lakeside Blues"
- Mahogany, "Neoplasticboogiewoogie"
- Stuart A. Staples, "That Leaving Feeling"
- Mindless Self Indulgence, "Shut Me Up"
- Sigur Ros, "Hoppipolk"
- Morrissey, "The Youngest Was The Most Loved"
- Thom Yorke, "Harrowdown Hill"
- Dresden Dolls, "Sing"