The Ballet

• Mattachine! // rock• tweenbeat

The Bats

• Daddy's Highway // rock• plain vanilla

Beirut

• Lon Gisland EP // rock• williamsburg klezmer

Bonnie Prince Billy

• The Letting Go // rock• voice cracking appalachia

Bonobo

• One Offs... // electronic• just don't call it trip hop

The Books

• The Lemon of Pink // electronic• sleepy organic samples & beats
• Thought for Food // electronic• can we please not say `folktronics'

Brian Jonestown

• We Are the Radio // rock• the 60s never ended

Bridget St John

• Ask Me No Questions // rock• peel folk

Broadcast

• Tender Buttons // rock• none dare call it electroclash

Calla

• Collisions // rock• plain vanilla

The Cannanes

• The Cannanes // rock• do i ever miss ajax...
• Witchetty Pole // rock• the old days really were better

Caribou

• Andorra // electronic• big beat backbeat
• The milk of human kindness // electronic• reinventing downtempo ... and just in time

Catatonic Youth

• Piss Scene // rock• siouxsie progeny

The Chemistry Set

• Acid Tapes // rock• elephant c86

Citizens Here and Abroad

• Ghosts of Tables and Chairs // rock• versus reborn post-deathcab

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah // rock• talking heads comparison superfluous

The Clean

• Vehicle // rock• the ajax years

Colleen

• Everyone alive wants answers // electronic• clockwork lullabies
• The Golden Morning Breaks // electronic• music box melodies

Dear Nora

• Three States // rock• shambolic northwest
• We'll Have A Time // rock• rose melberg's spiritual flatmates

Death in Vegas

• Satan's Circus // electronic• big beat shoegazing

Deerhunter

• Cryptograms // rock• brooklyn stoner music

Dolly Mixture

• Demonstration Tapes // rock• C-83

Edith Frost

• Demos // folk• heartbreaking country bedroom recordings
• It's A Game // rock• downcountry folk

Electrelane

• No Shouts, No Calls // rock• krrrautrock

Essex Green

• Cannibal Sea // rock• elephant 7

Explosions in the Sky

• Studio Demos // rock• them, mogwai & godspeed

Film School

• Alwaysnever EP // rock• swoony, ropers-ish, ’92-isms

The Finches

• Six Songs // rock• plain vanilla

Go Gos

• Beauty and the Beat // rock• colossal youths

Grizzly Bear

• Horn of Plenty // rock• spooky forest songs
• Yellow House // rock• folky spaceboys go orchestral

Headphones

• Headphones // electronic• pedro the lion-style

Heikki

• 1+2 // rock• pure pop, partially debased by folk

Hot Lava

• Lavalogy // rock• pseudo-swedes

Howtoplays

• Pop Kit CD // rock• nordic indie-pop retreads

I'm So Hollow

• Emotion, Sound, Motion // rock• wiry

Islands

• Arm's Way // rock• epic
• Return to the Sea // rock• post-unicorn ambiguity

Kim Hiorthoy

• My Last Day // electronic• the norwegian mark robinson

King Creosote

• Rocket D.I.Y. // folk• badly drawn belle

The Kinks

• The Village Green Preservation Society // rock• proto indiepop

Kinski

• Alpine Static // rock• long lost Stooges instrumentals

Leonard Cohen

• At the Beeb // rock• missing from my parents' record collection

M83

• M83 // electronic• la shoegaze prog française

Melodium

• la tete qui flotte // rock• wild organicists

Microstoria

• Invisible Architecture 3 // electronic• snap crackle thrum

Mixtape Club

• Mark & Sweep // compilation• mtc01
• acceptable losses // compilation• mtc08
• accumulating evidence // compilation• mtc06
• coasting through // compilation• mtc12
• final corrections // compilation• mtc09
• fleeting canopy // compilation• mtc10
• height of floats // compilation• mtc14
• hermetically sealed // compilation• mtc02
• la nota roja // compilation• mtc13
• running the numbers // compilation• mtc04
• shadows begone! // compilation• mtc07
• some clarity // compilation• mtc05
• the damage done // compilation• mtc11

My Bloody Valentine

• Ecstasy and Wine // rock• Straight-up C86 Pop

Night Canopy

• Of Honey And Country // rock• lullaby pop

Numbers

• Now You Are This // rock• analogue grinding noises

The Octopus Project

• Hello, Avalanche // rock• indie glitch

The Oh Sees

• Help // rock• ga-RAGE, not GAH-ridge

The Oohlas

• Little Buttons // rock• wear your influences, but wear them well

P.J. Harvey

• White Chalk // rock• reinventions

Pale Saints

• The Comforts Of Madness // rock• new order playing psycho candy

Peter Bjorn & John

• Falling Out // rock• swedish pop
• Writer's Block // rock• swedish pop

Phonophani

• Espen Sommer Eide // electronic• beatless drifting
• Oak or Rock // electronic• warm glitch freakout

Pinback

• Nautical Antiques // rock• islands of melody in emoland

Planet Earth

• The Sounds of Earth // folk• toronto hipster laptop pop

Pony Up

• Stay Gold // rock• 100% hja

The Portugals

• Setubal // rock• dandies reprise

The Primitives

• Lazy 86 to 88 // rock• 100% C-86

Psychic Ills

• Early Violence // rock• spacemen 08

Radio Dept

• Lesser Matters // rock• essential noisepop

Ratatat

• 9 Beats // electronic• instumental bootyshake
• LP3 // rock• redemption
• Ratatat // electronic• whiteboy hip-hop beats
• Ratatat Mixtape // Hip Hop• Brooklynites deliver goods

The Raveonettes

• Lust Lust Lust // rock• psychocottoncandy

Rune Grammofon

• Runeology 2 // electronic• Half Electro-mindwarp, Half Free Jazz

Saskrotch

• Nintendo Breakz Vol. 1 // electronic• 8-bit breakcore

Sea Urchins

• stardust // rock• high twee

Seabear

• The Ghost that Carried Us Away // rock• plain vanilla

Seven Ark

• Noise Of The New // electronic• old school IDM revisited

Shop Assistants

• EPs and Singles // rock• raincoat wearers

Skywave

• Echodrone // rock• psychocandied
• Synthstatic // rock• shoegaze, straight up

Sol Seppy

• The Bells Of 1 2 // rock• generative mixture

Stella Rocket

• Stella Rocket // rock• the swedish dolly mixture

Stereolab

• Lo Fi // rock• bands in their prime

Sufjan Stevens

• Illinois // rock• reclaiming the mighty banjo from Deliverance

Surf City

• Surf City // rock• plain vanilla

Swell Maps

• A Trip to Marineville // rock• just-post post-punk

Tape

• Luminarium // rock• slow wave sleep

Tenniscoats

• The Theme Of Tenniscoats // rock• beyond categorization
• Totemo Aimasho // rock• i will never love another
• We are everyone // rock• beyond categorization

Tracy Shedd

• Cigarettes and Smoke Machines // rock• cold, hopeful days on morrison ave
• Louder Than You Can Hear // rock• Edith Frost minus the twang

Troll

• Que Son Los Trolls Y En Que Nos Ayudan_ // rock• drugmusic

Tunng

• This is ... Tunng // folk• beats and samples included for modern credibility

The Unicorns

• Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone // rock• plain vanilla

Venetian Snares

• Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett // electronic• orchestral breakbeat

Vivian Girls

• Vivian Girls // rock• tiger tambourine

The Wake

• Harmony // rock• they're so hollow

Warpaint

• Exquisite Corpse // rock• catpowerwaul

Wolf Parade

• Apologies To The Queen // rock• 80s revival needn't suck

The Wrens

• Meadowlands // rock• melodic dude rock

Xela

• The Dead Sea // electronic• ominousness

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

• Show Your Bones // rock• yuppie punk

Yellow Fever

• Cats And Rats // rock• the olympia of old

The Zombies

• Odessey And Oracle // rock• psychpop

pete and the pirates

• little death // rock• british

samizdat audio

• bunker mentality // compilation• and 2
• common knowledge // compilation• and8
• dragon and dog // compilation• and16
• found in media // compilation• and 1
• handshake protocol // compilation• and18
• harbingers and armor // compilation• and12
• holding patterns // compilation• and 3
• in coded messages // compilation• and 4
• limit cycle // compilation• and 6
• nothing that would further // compilation• and 5
• old beginnings // compilation• and20
• on the porousness of certain borders // compilation• and19
• out of phase // compilation• and14
• rising tides // compilation• and10
• sheer happenstance // compilation• and11
• sunset times // compilation• and9
• the same mistake // compilation• and7
• those were the reasons // compilation• and15
• twilight savings // compilation• and13
• valence shell // compilation• and17

Samizdat Sounds

• A Dodgy Proposition // compilation• SND 12
• Brightly Fading // compilation• SND 8
• Catastrophic Successes // compilation• SND 13
• Forgotten Photograph // rock• SND 1
• Furtive Glances // compilation• SND 21
• No Subtext // compilation• SND 17
• Off balance // compilation• SND 11
• Other Priorities // compilation• SND 9
• Remaindered // compilation• SND 14
• Retreat + Retrieve // compilation• SND 29
• Return Postage // compilation• SND 16
• Suburban Gothic // compilation• SND 22
• The Apathy Gambit // compilation• SND 23
• The Impossible // compilation• SND 15
• To the Bittersweet End // compilation• SND 18
• Wakes & Plumes // compilation• SND 7
• Walking Papers // compilation• SND 19
• What We Call Progress // compilation• SND 28
• Whathaveyou // compilation• SND 10
• Winsstrasse // compilation• SND 27
• economies of scale // compilation• SND 24
• excess capacity // compilation• SND 26
• fuguestate // compilation• SND 25
• separation anxiety // compilation• SND 30