10cc, Complete UK Recordings 1972-1974 (Varese)
36 Crazy Fists, Snow Capped Romance (Roadrunner)
All the Dead Pilots, Steady Not Static (Morphius)
Jason Anderson, New England (K)
The Beauty Pill, Unsustainable Lifestyle (Dischord)
Before the Dawn, My Darkness (Locomotive Music)
The Blithe Sons, Arm of the Starfish (Family Vineyard)
Broken Poets, Reincarnation (Hayden's Ferry)
David Byrne, Grown Backwards (Nonesuch)
Calliope, Sounds Like Circles Feel (Thick)
Carmen, Free (Native)
Cassidy, Split Personality (J-Records)
Exhvmed, Platters of Splatter (Relapse)
Features, Beginning (Universal)
Grip Inc, Incorporated (Hunter)
Hold Steady, Almost Killed Me (French Kiss)
The Hunns, Long Legs Die Hunns (Disaster)
The Indulgers, Chase the Ghost (Celtic Club)
Inspectah, Unidad, Cerveza y Ska (Universal Latino)
Joe Jackson Band, Afterlife (Rykodisc)
Jasper, From My Perspective (Industry Phun)
Norman Jay, Giant 45 (React)
Tim Jensen, Mind for the Scenery (Origin)
Simon Joyner, Lost With the Lights On (Jagjaguwar)
King Perry, 1945-1949 (Jazz Classics)
The Locust, Locust (Gold Standard)
Mindflayer, It's Always 1999 (Load)
Mission of Burma, Accomplished: The Best of Mission of Burma (Rykodisc)
New Black, New Black (Thick)
Ohm, Ohm (Rotten)
Onelinedrawing, Volunteers (Jade Tree)
Finley Quaye, Much More Than Much Love (Sony)
Rasputina, Frustration Plantation (Instinct)
Shearwater, Winged Life (Misra)
The Sultans, Shipwrecked (Swami)
This Is How I Kill My Tears, This Is How I Kill My Tears (Deep Elm)
Threshold, Extinct Instinct (Inside Out Music)
Tiles, Fence the Clear (Inside Out Music)
UFO, You Are Here (Hunter)
Wake the Dead, Buchdancer's Choice (Redwing)—Cooper Cruz
This article appears in Mar 11-17, 2004.