July 2009

• Dear Nora | Three States // rock• shambolic northwest

June 2009

• samizdat audio | old beginnings // compilation• and20
• Seabear | The Ghost that Carried Us Away // rock• plain vanilla
• samizdat audio | on the porousness of certain borders // compilation• and19

May 2009

• The Wake | Harmony // rock• they're so hollow
• Pony Up | Stay Gold // rock• 100% hja
• The Oh Sees | Help // rock• ga-RAGE, not GAH-ridge

April 2009

• samizdat audio | handshake protocol // compilation• and18
• samizdat audio | valence shell // compilation• and17
• Stereolab | Lo Fi // rock• bands in their prime

March 2009

• Catatonic Youth | Piss Scene // rock• siouxsie progeny
• Warpaint | Exquisite Corpse // rock• catpowerwaul

February 2009

• Tape | Luminarium // rock• slow wave sleep
• samizdat audio | dragon and dog // compilation• and16
• The Chemistry Set | Acid Tapes // rock• elephant c86

January 2009

• The Ballet | Mattachine! // rock• tweenbeat
• samizdat audio | those were the reasons // compilation• and15
• The Portugals | Setubal // rock• dandies reprise

December 2008

• Surf City | Surf City // rock• plain vanilla
• The Clean | Vehicle // rock• the ajax years
• samizdat audio | out of phase // compilation• and14

November 2008

• Sol Seppy | The Bells Of 1 2 // rock• generative mixture
• samizdat audio | twilight savings // compilation• and13

October 2008

• Tracy Shedd | Cigarettes and Smoke Machines // rock• cold, hopeful days on morrison ave
• samizdat audio | harbingers and armor // compilation• and12
• samizdat audio | sheer happenstance // compilation• and11
• Vivian Girls | Vivian Girls // rock• tiger tambourine

September 2008

• Psychic Ills | Early Violence // rock• spacemen 08
• Yellow Fever | Cats And Rats // rock• the olympia of old

August 2008

• samizdat audio | rising tides // compilation• and10

July 2008

• samizdat audio | sunset times // compilation• and9

June 2008

• samizdat audio | common knowledge // compilation• and8

May 2008

• Ratatat | LP3 // rock• redemption
• Islands | Arm's Way // rock• epic
• samizdat audio | the same mistake // compilation• and7
• Bridget St John | Ask Me No Questions // rock• peel folk

April 2008

• samizdat audio | limit cycle // compilation• and 6
• samizdat audio | nothing that would further // compilation• and 5
• I'm So Hollow | Emotion, Sound, Motion // rock• wiry

March 2008

• Hot Lava | Lavalogy // rock• pseudo-swedes
• samizdat audio | in coded messages // compilation• and 4
• samizdat audio | holding patterns // compilation• and 3
• pete and the pirates | little death // rock• british

February 2008

• samizdat audio | bunker mentality // compilation• and 2

January 2008

• Leonard Cohen | At the Beeb // rock• missing from my parents' record collection
• samizdat audio | found in media // compilation• and 1
• The Primitives | Lazy 86 to 88 // rock• 100% C-86
• Melodium | la tete qui flotte // rock• wild organicists
• Mixtape Club | height of floats // compilation• mtc14

December 2007

• The Octopus Project | Hello, Avalanche // rock• indie glitch
• Mixtape Club | la nota roja // compilation• mtc13

November 2007

• The Raveonettes | Lust Lust Lust // rock• psychocottoncandy
• Mixtape Club | coasting through // compilation• mtc12
• Kim Hiorthoy | My Last Day // electronic• the norwegian mark robinson
• Go Gos | Beauty and the Beat // rock• colossal youths
• Mixtape Club | the damage done // compilation• mtc11

October 2007

• P.J. Harvey | White Chalk // rock• reinventions
• Skywave | Echodrone // rock• psychocandied
• Mixtape Club | fleeting canopy // compilation• mtc10
• Dolly Mixture | Demonstration Tapes // rock• C-83
• Howtoplays | Pop Kit CD // rock• nordic indie-pop retreads

September 2007

• Mixtape Club | final corrections // compilation• mtc09
• My Bloody Valentine | Ecstasy and Wine // rock• Straight-up C86 Pop
• Mixtape Club | acceptable losses // compilation• mtc08

August 2007

• Numbers | Now You Are This // rock• analogue grinding noises
• Mixtape Club | shadows begone! // compilation• mtc07

July 2007

• Mixtape Club | accumulating evidence // compilation• mtc06
• Tenniscoats | Totemo Aimasho // rock• i will never love another

June 2007

• Mixtape Club | some clarity // compilation• mtc05
• Caribou | Andorra // electronic• big beat backbeat

May 2007

• Mixtape Club | running the numbers // compilation• mtc04
• Electrelane | No Shouts, No Calls // rock• krrrautrock
• Troll | Que Son Los Trolls Y En Que Nos Ayudan_ // rock• drugmusic
• Night Canopy | Of Honey And Country // rock• lullaby pop

April 2007

• The Zombies | Odessey And Oracle // rock• psychpop
• Deerhunter | Cryptograms // rock• brooklyn stoner music
• Mixtape Club | hermetically sealed // compilation• mtc02

March 2007

• Ratatat | 9 Beats // electronic• instumental bootyshake
• Explosions in the Sky | Studio Demos // rock• them, mogwai & godspeed
• Swell Maps | A Trip to Marineville // rock• just-post post-punk
• Mixtape Club | Mark & Sweep // compilation• mtc01

February 2007

• Samizdat Sounds | separation anxiety // compilation• SND 30
• Samizdat Sounds | Winsstrasse // compilation• SND 27
• Samizdat Sounds | Retreat + Retrieve // compilation• SND 29

January 2007

• The Kinks | The Village Green Preservation Society // rock• proto indiepop
• Shop Assistants | EPs and Singles // rock• raincoat wearers

December 2006

• The Bats | Daddy's Highway // rock• plain vanilla
• Peter Bjorn & John | Falling Out // rock• swedish pop
• Peter Bjorn & John | Writer's Block // rock• swedish pop

November 2006

• Beirut | Lon Gisland EP // rock• williamsburg klezmer

October 2006

• Samizdat Sounds | What We Call Progress // compilation• SND 28
• Xela | The Dead Sea // electronic• ominousness

September 2006

• Bonnie Prince Billy | The Letting Go // rock• voice cracking appalachia
• Pinback | Nautical Antiques // rock• islands of melody in emoland
• Essex Green | Cannibal Sea // rock• elephant 7

August 2006

• The Finches | Six Songs // rock• plain vanilla

July 2006

• Grizzly Bear | Yellow House // rock• folky spaceboys go orchestral

May 2006

• Samizdat Sounds | excess capacity // compilation• SND 26
• The Cannanes | Witchetty Pole // rock• the old days really were better
• The Cannanes | The Cannanes // rock• do i ever miss ajax...

April 2006

• Islands | Return to the Sea // rock• post-unicorn ambiguity
• Samizdat Sounds | fuguestate // compilation• SND 25
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Show Your Bones // rock• yuppie punk

February 2006

• Edith Frost | Demos // folk• heartbreaking country bedroom recordings
• Planet Earth | The Sounds of Earth // folk• toronto hipster laptop pop

January 2006

• Heikki | 1+2 // rock• pure pop, partially debased by folk
• Samizdat Sounds | economies of scale // compilation• SND 24
• Stella Rocket | Stella Rocket // rock• the swedish dolly mixture
• Dear Nora | We'll Have A Time // rock• rose melberg's spiritual flatmates
• Pale Saints | The Comforts Of Madness // rock• new order playing psycho candy
• Phonophani | Espen Sommer Eide // electronic• beatless drifting
• King Creosote | Rocket D.I.Y. // folk• badly drawn belle

December 2005

• Samizdat Sounds | The Apathy Gambit // compilation• SND 23
• The Oohlas | Little Buttons // rock• wear your influences, but wear them well
• Saskrotch | Nintendo Breakz Vol. 1 // electronic• 8-bit breakcore

November 2005

• Samizdat Sounds | Suburban Gothic // compilation• SND 22
• Film School | Alwaysnever EP // rock• swoony, ropers-ish, ’92-isms

October 2005

• Edith Frost | It's A Game // rock• downcountry folk
• Citizens Here and Abroad | Ghosts of Tables and Chairs // rock• versus reborn post-deathcab

September 2005

• Sea Urchins | stardust // rock• high twee
• Wolf Parade | Apologies To The Queen // rock• 80s revival needn't suck
• Calla | Collisions // rock• plain vanilla
• Brian Jonestown | We Are the Radio // rock• the 60s never ended

August 2005

• Samizdat Sounds | Furtive Glances // compilation• SND 21
• Broadcast | Tender Buttons // rock• none dare call it electroclash

July 2005

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

June 2005

• The Wrens | Meadowlands // rock• melodic dude rock
• Sufjan Stevens | Illinois // rock• reclaiming the mighty banjo from Deliverance
• Kinski | Alpine Static // rock• long lost Stooges instrumentals
• Headphones | Headphones // electronic• pedro the lion-style

May 2005

• Colleen | The Golden Morning Breaks // electronic• music box melodies
• Skywave | Synthstatic // rock• shoegaze, straight up
• Samizdat Sounds | Walking Papers // compilation• SND 19
• Tenniscoats | The Theme Of Tenniscoats // rock• beyond categorization

April 2005

• Bonobo | One Offs... // electronic• just don't call it trip hop
• M83 | M83 // electronic• la shoegaze prog française
• Microstoria | Invisible Architecture 3 // electronic• snap crackle thrum

March 2005

• Caribou | The milk of human kindness // electronic• reinventing downtempo ... and just in time
• Samizdat Sounds | To the Bittersweet End // compilation• SND 18
• Tracy Shedd | Louder Than You Can Hear // rock• Edith Frost minus the twang

February 2005

• Seven Ark | Noise Of The New // electronic• old school IDM revisited
• Venetian Snares | Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett // electronic• orchestral breakbeat
• Phonophani | Oak or Rock // electronic• warm glitch freakout
• Rune Grammofon | Runeology 2 // electronic• Half Electro-mindwarp, Half Free Jazz

January 2005

• Samizdat Sounds | No Subtext // compilation• SND 17
• Death in Vegas | Satan's Circus // electronic• big beat shoegazing
• Grizzly Bear | Horn of Plenty // rock• spooky forest songs
• Tunng | This is ... Tunng // folk• beats and samples included for modern credibility
• Samizdat Sounds | Return Postage // compilation• SND 16
• Samizdat Sounds | The Impossible // compilation• SND 15

December 2004

• Tenniscoats | We are everyone // rock• beyond categorization

November 2004

• Samizdat Sounds | Remaindered // compilation• SND 14

October 2004

• Ratatat | Ratatat Mixtape // Hip Hop• Brooklynites deliver goods
• Samizdat Sounds | Catastrophic Successes // compilation• SND 13
• Samizdat Sounds | A Dodgy Proposition // compilation• SND 12
• Ratatat | Ratatat // electronic• whiteboy hip-hop beats

September 2004

• Samizdat Sounds | Off balance // compilation• SND 11
• Samizdat Sounds | Other Priorities // compilation• SND 9
• Samizdat Sounds | Brightly Fading // compilation• SND 8
• Samizdat Sounds | Whathaveyou // compilation• SND 10
• Samizdat Sounds | Forgotten Photograph // rock• SND 1
• Samizdat Sounds | Wakes & Plumes // compilation• SND 7

July 2004

• Radio Dept | Lesser Matters // rock• essential noisepop
• Colleen | Everyone alive wants answers // electronic• clockwork lullabies
• The Books | Thought for Food // electronic• can we please not say `folktronics'
• The Books | The Lemon of Pink // electronic• sleepy organic samples & beats

May 2004

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