December 2021 update: Migrated the Albums to Get back to 10thumbs' Bandcamp Wishlist (where they can more easily be browsed in-store via the app) and instead will list the Good Enough to Relisten albums here, above the Missed the Cut selections.
LC 011: Year 1 Stats
Total albums added to Listcore 011: 1,658
| Still to hear | 781 | 47% |
| Albums to get, have gotten, LC 001 | 130/12/5 | 9% |
| Relistenable | 486 | 29% |
| Missed the cut | 244 | 15% |
Good Enough to Re-listen:
Albums in bold are due for a relisten sooner than later.
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- 10 String Symphony – Weight Of The World
- ’68 – Two Parts Viper / solid rock + some indie
A-C
- Admiral – 7/13/18 demos / denver indie/emo
- Adolescents – S/T / old school, holds up
- Aesop Rock – Skelethon / what you’d expect
- The Afghan Whigs – Up In It
- Airstream Futures – Le Feu Et Le Sable / Pleasant Tilt-ish pop punk
- Alarms & Controls – Clovis Points LP / Good if a little uneven on Dischord
- Algiers – There Is No Year / only 3 songs
- Antekirta – S/T / solid if unspectacular HC
- Antioch Arrow – Gems of Masochism / good snazzy, just not my thing at 10 am.
- Baby Eagle and the Proud Mothers – Bone Soldiers / ex-Constantines whose voice is better than it is there
- David Bazan – Care / good
- Beach Bunny – Honeymoon / good high energy w/ female vox
- Beach Slang (Quiet Slang) – Everything Matters But No One is Listening / acoustic versions of 1st 2 albums
- Beans – Someday this Will All Be Ash / fine hip hop
- BELLS≥ – Solutions, Silence, or Affirmations / Zac B from Jawbox; instrumental
- Bertos – Chamuco Le Cuenta Los Pasos / reminds of mid90s GNV beer-punk
- The Beths – Future Me Hates Me / good indie power pop
- BIB – A Band in Hardcore / heavy and spazzy in a good way
- Big Joanie – Sistahs / UK Black feminist punk
- Richard J. Birkin – A Lullaby Hum For Tired Streets / good mellow stuff
- Myke Bogan – Joe Fontana / ok hip hop
- Moses Boyd – Dark Matter / no notes 🙁
- Alan Braufman – Valley of Search / partial album fo jazz
- Brasilia – S/T /
- Chris Brokaw – End of the Night / Good instrumental (was CB in Codiene?)
- Calexico – The Thread that Keeps Us / good but less intriguinig that Shins-like
- Calexico and Iron & Wine – Years to Burn / not as good as the first collab
- Caspian – Live at Old South Church
- Ceramicats – III / fun old person gainesville indie rock
- Channels – Backpfeifengesicht b/w Airstrip One / 2 new songs 12 years after full length
- C.H.E.W. – In Due Time 7” / decent HC
- Clear Channel – Hell / good bass driven punk
- Cloakroom – Further Out / intersting enough to listen to other albums
- Cloakroom – Time Well / eh.. fine
- Coma Regalia – There’s Still Time / good old school screams
- Control Top – Covert Contracts / good snotty punk from PHI
- Crash Of Rhinos – Distal / BC recommended punk
- Crimpshrine – Duct Tape Soup / Missed out on the box; historic
- Crimpshrine – The Sound of a New World Being Born /Missed out on the box; historic
- Jeff Cunningham – The Poems Stuck in My Teeth / pre-Bridge & Tunnel solo record
D-G
- Dakota Suite – Signal Hill / one great song, mellow
- Dark Thoughts – At Work / power pop in the vein of Title Tracks
- Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want / hyped, good
- Dead Feeling – nu.wav / Gvill post-punk
- Deadenders – Carolina House / TLH punk w/ Cody D
- Denzel Curry – Unlocked Instrumentals
- Decades/Failures – G00DBY3 / decent post-punk on Dead Tank
- Dessa – Chime / Interesting pop stuff on Ryhmesayers
- Dibia$e – Baker’s Dozen / good hiphop
- DJ Jazzy Jeff – The Magnificent / Good old school hip hop
- Do Nothing – Zero Dollar Bill / Ted Leo-is
- Dos – Justamente Tres / Mike Watt and Kira from Black Flag
- Drive-By Truckers – Decoration Day / Title track is a slammer
- Droughts – Stay Behind / decent post HC
- Dumb – Club Nites / Strokes or pavement like
- Edsel – The Everlasting Belt Co. / solid indi rock
- Elliott – U.S. Songs / late 90s found on Rev Records rabbit hole
- EL-P – Fantastic Damage
- EL-P – I’ll Sleep When Your’e Dead
- Enemy Radio – Loud is Not Enough / Public Enemy w/o Flava Flav?
- Evidence – Cats & Dogs / pretty darn good hip hop
- Exhalants – S/T /Texas loud rock a la The Blind Shake
- The Expert – Dynamic Drift / DJ shadow like compositions
- Fela Kuti – Gentleman / good taste, explore more
- Craig Finn – I Need A New War / what you’d expect from a Craig Finn record, not as fully realized as We all Want the Same Things
- forests – Sun Eat Moon Grave Party / twinkly emo outta Singapore
- The Fragiles – S/T / David Settle mellow pop
- This Frontier Needs Heroes – *Hooky* / good enough to tkae a listen to more
- Levi Fuller & the Library – Such Bad Things Happen / good indie rock, listen to others releases?
- Futuro – Os Segredos Do Espaço e Tempo / similar to Downtown Boys ; good, quick
- Galaxie 500 – This is Our Music / historic? reminds me of Freedom Coalition days
- Gauche – A People’s History of Gauche / good post punk on Merge; some is liek latter day Sleater-Kinney
- José González – and the Brite Lites at Svenska Grammofonstudion
- Gorilla Biscuits – Start Today / added for historic value, relisten?
- Jared Grabb – Masters / ex-Scout’s Honor and great artwork
- Grails – Burning Off Impurities / jazzy > the solid rock I expected
- Grammer – Awesome Knifes / good not great
- GUTS – Lucky All Over / debut by Sam Jones’ ~83rd band
H-J
- The Hal Al Shedad – Description: Singles And Unreleased Recordings: 1995 – 1999 / really good punk
- Halifax Pier – S/T / in the vein of emporer moth erudition
- Roger Harvey – Gold / Calming folk
- Havah – Contravveleno / decent post punk
- Have a Nice Life – Deathconsciousness / interesting, slow shoe gaze/postpunk
- Hiccup – Imaginary Enemies / harder edged Juliana Hatfield sound
- HIDE – Hell is Here / angry industrial darkness outta Chicago w Heather Gabel
- Hiss Golden Messenger – Heart Like a Levee / decent alt-countryish folk on Merge
- Household Gods – Palace Intrigue / interesting SY-ish one-off
- Hum – Inlet / fine stuff
- The Hussy – Looming / rock from Madison, WI
- I Would Set Myself on Fire For You – S/T / not as great as Believe in Patterns
- If I Had a HiFi – We’re Never Going Home / Less cogent Challenger?
- Infant Island – Beneath
- Insect Fear – Must Be Destroyed/Crease / TLH old school indie; reminds of Naomi’s Hair
- Inside Out – No Spiritual Surrender / pre-RATM Zach DLR on Revelation(!)
- Iron & Wine – Live at Third Man Records
- Irreversible Entanglements – Who Sent You? / political free jazz w/ great cover art
- Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions / Good shit
- Japandroids – Massey Fucking Hall / like Radon they may just be better on record
- Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions / good stuff
- J Mascis – Don’t Do Me Like That (cover)
- J Mascis – Elastic Days / a little same-samey
- J Mascis – Fade Into You 7”
- J Robbins – Un-Becoming
- Jena Berlin – Quo Vadimus / pre-Restorations band
- Jesu – S/T / sludgy
- The Jesus Years – are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John / really solid post rock
- Joyce Manor – Cody
- Joyce Manor – Million Dollars to Kill Me
- Junip – Fields
- Junip – S/T
- Damien Jurado – What’s New Tomboy? / Love the cover art, more 70s folk than sad DJ that I love
K-M
- Julie Karr – Let’s Exchange the Experience / ex-Gville, one song has a Molina lyric
- Ras Kass – Soul On Ice: Revisited / Solid, if a bit dated language
- Khruangbin – Mordechai / chill, groovy
- Kowloon Walled City – *Container Ships / not as strong as i remember KWC being
- Kowloon Walled City – Greivances / strong
- Joe Lally – Why Should I Get Used To It / solid, ex-Fugazi
- Abigail Lapell – Love Songs + More New Songs (2002-2003) / really solid from the LP office days
- Lasorda – S/T / another, less satisfying Matt Pryor side project
- Alan Lee – An Australian Jazz Anthology / good jazz but a few opera type songs in the middle?
- Ben Lee – Quarter Century Classix / Orig are good enough to carry this, but these covers are bland
- Less Art – Strangled Light / punkish metal (more HC)
- Letters to Catalonia – Fragmentary / breif screamy punk
- Leunon – Lessons Learned / TLH indie with great album art
- Lie – You Want it Real / really solid punk from Vancouver
- Lord God Bird – Oceans Rising / Odd metal but sorta interesting
- Lowepines – In Silver Halides / reminds me of Elliot Smith
- Austin Lucas – Immortal Americans / Seems like a transitional work; good not great.
- Lung – All the Kings Horses / PJ Harvey-ish
- Magnolia Electric Co. – Live at Cat’s Craddle, Sept. 25, 2007
- Maple Stave – V / adult punk via some other band IIRC
- Mass Arrest – The Savage Season Continues: Demo 2017 / Oakland hardcore
- Meniscus – Refractions
- Meniscus – War of Currents / post rock a la El Ten Eleven
- Efrim Manuel Menuck – Pissing Stars / interesting and part of Constellation Records family
- The Mercury Program – A Data Learn the Language / solid
- The Messthetics – Anthropocosmic Nest / Joe Satriani by way of Dischord??
- Metroschifter – Carbonistas
- Milemarker – Live 2000
- Militarie Gun – Demo / enough good post hardcore to check back with
- Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
- Mogwai – Les Revenants / strong, brooding
- Moonkisser – Summer’s Fleeting Majesty
- Bob Mould – Beauty & Ruin
- The Mountain Goats – All Hail West Texas
- Murders & Mysteries – It’s All In Our Histories / designer electronica from Naz Hamid
N-R
- Bob Nanna – Asssorted & Unsorted / uneven, but some Nanna gems for sure
- Bob Nanna – Celebration States / post divorce record
- Nations – I / good St. Aug emo
- Nonagon – The Last Hydronaut / Solid GNV style punk rock
- Nothing – Guilty of Everything / philly hype
- N0V3L – Non-Fiction / good dancey punk/post
- Nuzzle – Junk of Myth ’92-’95 / solid 90s local punk from Santa Cruz; reminds me of Seaweed in vibe
- Oddisee – Odd Tape / well done hip hop
- Oddisee – Rock Creek Park / well done hip hop
- ØJNE – prima che tutto bruci / good punk on La Agonía de Vivir, explore more of label
- Old Junior – Crossbars / ex-Twelve Hour Turn, less jarring
- Tara Jane O’Neil – A Ways Away
- Marisa Anderson & Tara Jane O’Nei – You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To
- Off With their Heads – Character / good but not OWTH great.
- Off With Their Heads – From the Bottom /
- Off With Their Heads – Home /
- Off With Their Heads – In Desolation /
- Ono – Red Summer / strong, scary, less rythmic Algiers
- Open Mike Eagle – Brick Body Kids Still Daydream / solid hip-hop
- Operation Makeout – Hang Loose / reminds me of poppier FHH
- Jeff Parker – Suite for Max Brown / pleasant jazz,
- Partial Traces – Low Definition / mix between melodic AM! and Concrete Blond?
- Pedro the Lion – Progress / fine EP
- Pelican – What We All Come to Need
- Perennial – Food For Hornets EP / sought out other releases
- Pet Symmetry – Vision / chicago latter day emo
- Pez – World Within Skin / spazzy GNV punk on Belladona
- PG. 99 – Document #8 / good loud scream
- Pile – Dripping / last of the blog albums I knew of? worth a 2nd listen
- Pilgrimage – Creature of Habit | Heavy rock from Lakeland
- Pinegrove – Marigold / Didn’t strike me like their other stuff, but will register
- Pink Film – S/T EP / OK punk, enough to seek other releases
- Planes Mistaken for Stars – Prey / Solid
- Planning For Burial- Below the House / added for cover art, good stuff
- Pleasure Leftists – The Gate / great name, seem to remember this being strong
- Pohgoh – Secret Club / Tampa stalwarts
- Poncho – S/T / pretty good pop-punk
- Pool Kids – Music to Practice Safe Sex To / ex-V89 indie rock
- Ryan Porter – Force for Good / enjoyable dynamci jazz
- Post Pink – No Problem, Probably / decent female punk
- The Pretty Flowers – Why Trains Crash / really good indie, really good cover art
- Priests – Nothing Feels Natural / lauded but ok post-punk
- Primes – Millions / NY boy-girl punk rock
- John Prine – The Missing Years / not as good as below
- John Prine – The Singing Mailman Delivers / solid
- John Prine & Mac Wiseman – Standard Songs for Average People / more good Prine, fun album art
- Proper – I Spent The Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better / a lot like imadethismistake
- Matt Pryor – May Day Companion
- Psychic Flowers – Gloves to Grand Air / Dave Settle project a la Title Tracks
- Pure Disgust – S/T / D.C. hardcore
- The Quick Fix Kills – Saint Something / Never reaches the level of that one opening track
- Radar State – Strays / Matt Pryor project
- Red Scare –Live 2000
- Reggae 90210 – S/T / it’s not reggae,
- Result of Choice – Place of My Dreams / CA hardcore
- Rodan – The Hat Factory 93 /
- Jeff Rosenstock – No Dream / not as immediate as Worry
- The Rutabega – Unreliable Narrator / Jay ryan cover art
S-T
- Hideto Sasaki, Toshiyuki Sekine Quartet + 1 – Stop Over / Nice jazz from Japan (!)
- Sideshow – Lip Read Confusion / Great ‘90s sound like Superchunk
- Shell of a Shell – Away Team / good, good cover art, try others
- Slow Mass – On Watch / chicago punk /w good cover art
- Slum of Legs – S/T / 6 person female post punk, good not great
- Smoke – Heaven On A Popsicle Stick / Loved the documentary, stoked to find this here
- The Soft Pink Truth – Am I Free To Go? / dimilar to Consolidated
- Sonic Youth – Live at All Tomorrows Parties 2000 / OK but not essential.
- Sonic Youth – SYR 1 Anagrama
- Sonic Youth (Ciccone Youth) – The Whitey Album
- Soul Tornados – The Complete Recordings / fun
- Spielbergs – Distant Star EP / Good enough that I added some of theif full lengths
- Spielbergs – Running All The Way Home EP
- Spielbergs – This Is Not The End / really good like Japandroids
- Spotlights – Love & Decay / Good heavy shoe gaze
- Spraynard – Mayble / Came to by way of Big Nothing I think, solid punk
- State Champion – Send Flowers / Just enough here to relisten (see track 6)
- Suicidal Tendencies – S/T / historic and holds up
- Sunshine State – The Mess / Solid if unspectacular Gville punk rock
- Super Unison – Super Union / Loud
- Sweethearts – S/T / intriguing cover art
- Richard Swift – Dressed Up For the Letdown / decent pop songs, more accessible than the stuff w/ D Jurado
- Tad – Salt Lick / solid heavy
- Tenement – Predatory Highlights / Remember playing cuts off at V89, full album not as good as I remember there.
- THICK – Would You Rather? / fun snotty punk
- Tina Sparkle –Welcome to the No Fun House / Better Yet host shouted out as the crown jewel of the Peoria scene in the (?) 90s.
- Title Fight – Hyperview
- Truth Cult – S/T EP / solid punk rock from Baltimore
- Lina Tullgren – Wishlist / nice female indie folk
- Jeff Tweedy – Warm
- Tyranny Is Tyranny – The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism / solid angry socialist punk
- Two Humans – Institute of Living / good indie, reminds of dirtier Walkmen
U-Z
- The United Sons of Toil – When The Revolution Comes, Everything Will Be Beautiful / 2nd vocals grate, but settles down; hardcore
- Vangas – Dog Walker / Waltz in E Minor 7” / angry, bouncy; added full-length
- Vangas – Facial Tissue / Chaotic like early Ought
- Rocky Votolato – Live at Black Belt
- Rocky Votolato – Sawdust & Shavings EP
- Kamasi Washington – The Epic / historic, 3 hrs, parts really good
- Wares – Survival / Good indie rock
- The Wave Pictures – The Songs of Jason Molina / Not great covers of Jason Molina, but it’s still Jason Molina
- Wax Wings – Swarm / Gainesville indie-folk with Chelsea Carnes
- Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud / still a fan, but not as enjoyable as last 2
- We Lost the Sea – Departure Songs / by the numbers post rock but darker than most
- The Weather Station – Duets #1-3 / ??
- White Lung – Sorry
- William Elliott Whitmore – Radium Death
- The Wild Reeds – Blind and Brave / Staves-ish but funkier and bigger sound
- Wives – So Removed / Sonic Youth/dinosaur jr. like indie rock
- Wye Oak – Civilian
- X – Alphabetland
- Young Ruins – Demo 2014 / Mike Taylor et al
Comps
- Ageing B-Boys Unite! – ABU Album 2 – Eclectic Boogaloo (Part 1: Rock Steady Crew Side) / great old school hiphop
- Crafted Sounds – Bridges / comp of Pittsburgh bands, added some individual bands off this
- Hopestreet Recordings – Over Under Away, Vol. 1 / fun neosoul and funk comp
- KMT(IC) Slim – Pelon (Bronx) Now whY Cee / old school hip hop mixtape
- V/A – All of God’s money: A Tribute to Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot / Put together by Better Yet podcast in Chicago which had several good episodes
- V/A – BurntBerry x Straight Path Jewlz Mixtape / good hip-hop mixtape
- V/A – A Civic Media Center Comp! / uneven but for GREAT cause
- V/A – Dead Wax: A Rad Girlfriend Records Compilation / added RG to labels list
- V/A – Doused in Mud, Soaked in Bleach / Nirvana’s Bleach covered on Robotic Empire
- V/A – Fresh Fest 5 / good comp but not essential
- V/A – Funky Funky Baton Rouge / jsut as the title suggests
- V/A – Lone Star Horizons: A Texas Tribute to Jason Molina
- V/A – In Utero, In Tribute, In Entriety / Nirvana’s In Utero covered
- V/A – Our Band Could Be Your Life – A Tribute To D. Boon And The Minutemen / good but not a 2nd listen
- V/A – Panama! 2: Latin Sounds, Cumbia Tropical & Calypso Funk on the Isthmus 1967-77
- V/A – A Tribute To The Get Up Kids / Terrific pop songs and covers of TGUK classics
- V/A – UNINTIMIDATED: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott Walkerby Unintimidated: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott Walker / Solid comp for a great cause
- V/A – We Were Living In Cincinnati, 1975-82 / power pop, proto punk; back 1/2 is better
Splits
- Broken Things/Chagner – split / tampa bay punk rock
- Knife The Symphony / Smoke Signals… – split / no recollection
- Ottawa / Jihad split — not on BC anymore
Instrumental or Ambient / Good for background
- 2 Mello – Mindstreaming, Vol. 1 / enjoyable hip-hop beats
- El Jazzy Chavo – Lower Class Jazz / beats
- Richmond Fontaine – Don’t Skip Out On Me / southwestern sound via Portland
- Helios – Eingya / Had 2 tracks downloaded at some point that were engaging, but full album doesn’t hold the weight enough to get
- Lowercase Noises – Migratory Patterns / good slow, background intst.
- William Tyler – Lost Colony / Alt-country instrumental
LC 001
Missed the Cut
A-L
- !!! – I’m Sick of This | fine 7″
- 1994! – Fuck It | NYHC + math; vocals sound underwater
- 24-Carat Black – Gone: the Promises of Yesterday | good Neo-soul, but just 1x listen
- Abolitionist – The Formative Years (2010-2014) | punk
- Aesop Rock – Music from the game Freedom Fighter | just 3 songs + some instrumentals
- Algiers – Live in Atlanta: The Last Show on Earth, 14 March 2020 | OK, but only for completists
- Amerigo Gazaway – Endless Summer Nights | too easy listening
- The Anime Club – (Japan Demo) | generic pop-punk
- Andrew Bryant – Magnolia State |
- Andrew Bryant – Sentimental Noises | well done but not engaging enough
- Angry Gods – The Clearing | ex-Scout’s Honor, death metal
- Armand Hammar – Paraffin | good hip hop… not enough
- Roy Ayers – Virgin Ubiquity: Unreleased Recordings | well done, just not my jazz thing
- Beach Slang – The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City | Not as good as earlier stuff, a tad boring.
- Bedsweater – Bitter Demos | folky emo
- Black is Just a Dark White – First strike 7″ | proggy
- Blessed – Salt | not bad, jut not very engaging
- Cayetana – not what we meant by NEW KIND OF NORMAL demos & unreleased songs | love the band, but these were rough demos, released post-breakup in the panedimc
- Vic Chestnutt – Silver Lake | respect. but doesn’t hit
- Code of the Jaguar – Jag Ex Machina | ok indie rock, not my thing
- Deathfix – S/T | well done, but not my thing: 60s pop on Dischord
- Dianogah – Dianogah Demo | Good but not necessary for me; off DuPage County Hardcore BC page
- Disq – Disq I | Poppy indie rock that wasn’t my thing
- Dntel – Human Voice | 1/2 of Postal Service but too avant electronic for me
- Tica Douglas – Lo | good & well done, just not my thing (no longer on BC?)
- Amen Dunes – Freedom | well done moody UK pop, but not my thing
- Eluvium – Pianoworks |
- Evidence – Squirrel Tape Instrumentals, Vol. 1 | Just beats, but good enough to add other Evidence albums
- Fear Not Ourselves Alone – You in the Heart of Everyone / reminds of Imadethismistake but doesn’t land; trans-centric
- The Fights – Off Your Horse – not enough heart; not enough alt- with the country
- Frank Force – Entroducing Originals: Part One | The clips that DJ Shadow used for Entroducing; not as engaging as the final version
- Jake Xeres Fussell – In the Natural World | thought it was a Lars ripoff, learned its a trad arrangement
- Giant Haystacks – Blunt Instrument | Vocals are too English-y even though from Bay Area
- Gorgeous – Egg | quirky pop; right on borderline of not making it
- Greys – Age Hasn’t Spoiled You | Not as engaged noise rock as I remembered their first album from my V89 days.
- Grouper – Ruins | well done but too quiet/sparse for relisten
- Guerilla Toss – What Would the Odd Do? | decent dancy punk
- Sarah Harmer – Are You Gone | Good indie pop; dueted with Bry Webb somewhere?
- Husbandry – A Port in the Storm | a little too nu-metally fo r me
- I MARC 4 – G.L.P. 1004 | from batch add of Italian film music whose album covers >>>> music (weird stuff)
- Jamie 3:26 – Jamie 3:26 presents A Taste of Chicago | house music that’s not my thing
- jinsang – solitude. | beats, not enough to relish
- Juiceboxxx – It’s Easy To Feel Like A Nobody When You’re Living In The City | much better than i expected, but not something I’d listen to again
- Damien Jurado & Richard Swift – Other People’s Songs Vol. 1 | too 60s pop, not a fan of Swift I think.
- Kassa Overall – I THINK I’M GOOD | well done and groovy just not my thing
- Knxwledge –1988 | 2 min beats/ sounds… needs an editor IMO
L-Z
- The Lawrence Arms – Skeleton Coast | just OK
- Leunon – Goodbye Cycles | TLH indie pop
- Loss Leader – Loss Leader | Decent emo revival but not enough; label shows promise though
- The Lost Controls – Short Notice | indie. well done, but like a steak
- Melvins – The Bootlicker | odd
- Medhane – Own Pace | Hip hop that didn’t really hit for me
- Metroplex – Decade Diary | Screamy Indie rock that was too samey
- Moor Mother – Fetish Bones | ambitious but doesn’t quite land for me (maybe need a 2nd listen?)
- Nervous Curtains – I Tried To Fight It But I Was Inside It | Anti-fascist synth punk… wish i liked it more.
- No, It’s Fine – s/t | Fairly generic 3rd wave emo
- Overhill Ln – Fum | weird: sounds like Elvis Costello demos on Casio
- Pan Am – Ceux qui inventent n’ont jamais vécu | good post rock, but too much screechy discordance/noise
- Pezzati – The First EP | Fine, just not really enough
- Piss Test – 7 Songs 7 Inches | GNV rawk
- Pearls Before Swine – Balaklava | 3 tracks of weird 60s folk rock (resissued on Drag City)
- Perfect Strangers – Unlikely Partners | jangly pop
- Pop. 1280 – Way Station | well done industrial and rad cover but not my bag
- Privacy Issues – s/t | low-fi post-punk; good but not my thing for repeated listens
- Psychic Temple – Plays Music for Airports | good but a one-timer; part of the Watt complete works
- Pupils – s/t | more psychedelic NMH? on Discord
- Rays – s/t | well done, Talking Heads/VU like
- Red Arms – Critical State | Punk that i wanted to like but vox distracted too much
- Rotten Blossom – Get Lict | generic but well done punk
- RP Boo – I’ll Tell You What | Repeition (footwork?) is too much (though at times well done)
- Charles Rouse – Two is One | good jzaz but not something I’d seek back out.
- Say Sue Me – Where We Were Together | well done but pedestrian indie pop from S. Korea
- Sensaround – heart/noise | too dischordant
- Shudder to Think – Get Your Goat | Historic, but not enough for me; maybe takes multiple listens
- Spiritual Camp – Television | Kinda Clash-ish, better album art
- Sunny Side Up – s/t | well done jazz, fun album cover, just not my bagS
- Swordman Kitala – Swordman Kitala: Remixes | just 2 songs of instrumental electronic
- Tenement – Music Composed for the Motion Picture ‘Smother Me in Hugs’ | scattered and not like their album from V89
- Franco Tonani – Confluenze | too frantic; from batch add of Italian film music whose album covers >>>> music (weird stuff)
- The Vernon Spring – s/t | Ambient? Piano?
- Vex Ruffin – Emilio | jazzy dancey but more background; well put together
- Butch Walker – Afraid of Ghosts | RTRS Spike loves him; good but not enough for relsiten
- Johanna Warren – Chaotic Good | Quiet singer-songwriter
- Wignut Dishwashers Union – Burn the Earth Leave it Behind | Fine folk punk but not really essential
- The World/Inferno Friendship Society – All Borders Are Porous To Cats
- World Quake Band – Everything is on the one | 80s soul boogie
- Worm Ouroboros – What Graceless Dawn | too plodding
- Xylouris White – The Sisypheans | World-ish.. Guy Piciotto produced and Dirty Three member IIRC
- Wylde Rattz – s/t | great supergroup lineup, boring music
- Yall So Stupid – Originai 88.5FM Rhythm & Vibes (ATL) Promo via 1991 / one track, someone mentioned as ATL hip hop pioneers
- Zeal and Ardor – Stranger Fruit | tu nu-metally
V/A, Comps and Splits
- Raging Nathans / Dead Bars split | Just the RN side, just fine punk
- V/A – Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine | Fun, but not totally engaging enough to register
- V/A – Cover Charge: NC Artists Go Under Cover to Benefit Cat’s Cradle | another good, not great pandemic comp
- V/A – Each Others’ Songs | End Up records artists covering each other
- V/A – Funky Nation Vol 2 | Good but not memorable jazz
- V/A – Gumba Fire: Bubblegum Soul & Synth-Boogie in 1980s South Africa | well done, just not something Id’ listen to again.
- V/A – Mare Romantico | batch of Italian film music whose album covers >>>> music (weird stuff)
Incomplete
- Bon Iver – S/T
- S Carey – Hundred Acres
- Your Food – Poke it with a Stick / 1 track of pretty good old Louisville indie rock