TRS-80 - Tinted: I got this from Nan on account of the record label messing up and sending her duplicates. The cover art leaves a bit to be desired, but do not overlook this one. Instrumental, synthy and good for long train rides home. From their newest LP "The New You." 
Themselves - P.U.S.H.: Themselves are Dose One and Jel of anticon. This picture disc split with Hood went somewhat unnoticed, unfortunately and is a gem if you can find it. Very organic sounding production with Dose skating across it with his staccato fury sometimes saran wrapped in low and high end snipped effects to achieve a good soundtrack joint to scaffold the scene where the lover runs back to her parent's cottage to discover God has sliced his wrists and is reading poetry. 
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde: Niege composed and played everything on this saccharine dosed shoegazer metal project. This track sounds nothing like his raw and ferocious black metal band Peste Noire. It's layered with distorted and clean guitars and Niege singing some surreal sh*t over it in French. Many will undoubtedly pass this off as some emo shlock. While I can't profess to like the entire album, the prettiness of it captures my fancy like corpsepainted faeries in the shire.
The Shins - The Celibate Life: One of the shortest and sweetest songs on "Oh, Inverted World". Reverbed vocals and elfish guitars. I remember hearing this at the local vegetarian diner randomly years before Garden State ever came out. Just sayin..
B. Fleischmann - Frisky She Said: Accomplished piano player laces his handiwork atop electronic compositions on this Morr Music gem.
Mt. Eerie - I Whale: A Capt. Ahab narrative which is deceivingly pleasant. Lo-fi acoustic goodness gets distorted in the last twenty seconds on a one-sided blue silk-screened picture disc.
Russian Circles - Upper Nintey: There's alot of cool bands coming out of Chicago like Nachtmystium and these dudes. Instrumental three piece music that reminds me a bit of Trans Am if they had a decent drummer. A sense of urgency, sweet riffs. Go find.
Solex - Chris the Birthday Boy: Adorable cut and piece song courtesy of Solex who is very Danish and very charming. The vocals don't make a whole lot of sense, but are steeped in gooey taffy cuteness. Ah Solex, why don't you work at the coffee shop I go to?
Octavius - Overly Concerned With One Another: When I was 7, we lived in this horrible suburb of Detroit next to this kid named Karl and his family. He was poorer than me and would always steal things I carelessly left in the yard and replaced them with dilapidated counterparts. This song, inspired by but sounding nothing like Suicide, reminds me of that.
The One AM Radio - Buried Below: Reminds me of the "Why did our high school posse part ways" parts in movies. Guitar, violin, delicate drums and Hrishikesh Hirway's pleasant vocals make this one of the stand out tracks on "A Name Write in Water."
Tortoise - Why We Fight: One of the most aggro Tortoise songs ever on this older 7". Still pleasant to listen to, but slides along a shuffling beat that could be alot like that part in the book The Road where the father goes into the cellar. Yeah?
Nobody - Fancy f/ Kurt Heasely: Acid dipped Nobody production with psychedlic tones featuring vocals by Kurt H. It's an ample filling of phaser effects baked onto this 7" slab which features an instrumental version.
Punjabi MC - Jogi: Bollywooded out sounding nothing like the other well known Punjabi MC track (Beware of the Boys), this is not bhangra, it's fitted cleanly over a fierce breakbeat (overused, but whatever) and some good samples, and the flip side features Beenie Man.
The Bush Babees - The Love Song f/ Mos Def: Early 90's track before Mos Def was famous. He sings the chorus which features production by Posdonous (De La Soul) with some loungey drums and an all around good feeling flavor. Go youtube the video for this.
Grails - Clean Living (excerpt): Total world explorer track. Amazing. Grails is probably my favorite instrumental rock band to come out recently. I played Risk to this album with my friend Joseph and will do so again.
Moodswing 9 - In The Pines: This is a lost instrumental from hiphop producer Moodswing 9 that was supposed to be on this super elite project called Stuffed Animals. Bully Records was wise in issuing the instrumental on a nice 7" which is somewhat hard to track down.Also, saw this posted...Largest Collection in the World!! Hey man, we know what you're talking about!!
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