- Wire's LP Object 47 (Pink Flag) the reviews are right!
- The Wedding Present's LP El Rey (Vibrant) extraordinarily consistent, with Steve Albini engineering again
- Black Daniel's single Chelsea's Teardrops (Dustbowl) feat. two of Medicine8
- Thomas Feiner & Anywhen's LP The Opiates Revised (Samadhisound) think Tindersticks, Ian McCulloch etc
- The Week That Was' debut LP (Memphis Industries) the offspring of now defunct Field Music with a Malkmus feel
- The Vivians' debut single A Human Angle (Electric Toaster) punky fun
- Levelload's debut single I Know You Know (Flightpath) trashy punk pop
- The Whigs' debut single Like A Vibration (ATO) '80s indie fans
- Bo-Peep's LP Is It Good For You? (Flightpath) Japanese punk pop
- Young And Sexy's LP The Arc (Mint) Post Pet Sounds '60s dreaminess
- Crash Tokio's LP Heads, We're Dancing (Tapete) poppy Spoon/ Red Kross fun
- David Cronenberg's Wife's debut LP Bluebeard's Rooms (Blang) mid '80s indie throwbacks
- Novo's LP Je Retiens Ton Souffle (Monopsone) French, insistent, list-like songs, somehow reminiscent of Dublin's A House
- Cut/Copy's Hearts On Fire - Midnight Juggernauts' & Joakim's remixes (Modular) lots of New Order references in these
- Metronomy's single Heartbreaker (Because)
- Emily Loizeau's LP L'Autre Bout Du Monde (Fargo) some great tracks but more engaging live
- David Dondero's LP Simple Love (Team Love/Affairs of the Heart) a fan of Elliot Smith, early REM, country and even Paul Simon
- The Black Dog's EP Detroit vs Sheffield (Soma)
- The Ramblin' Ambassadors' LP Vista Cruiser Country Squire (Mint) Canadian homage to The Shadows, Dick Dale, Man or Astroman? etc
- The Afternoons' single High Summer Lovers (Saturday) musically this one owes a lot to Roxy Music
- 28 Costumes' single Erika not their best though
- A Sketch For Summer compilation (CatCutter) '80s sounding indie including Foxes! And CityLights
- Damiean Lazarus' Sci-Fi-Lo-Fi compilation Vol 2: Night of the Dark Machines (Soma)
- Paul Dimmer Band's LP Im Kleinen Kreis (Tapete)
downbeat singer/songwriter
- Wolke's EP Ich Will Mich Befreien (Tapete) entertainingly unpredictable covers of Daft Punk, Guns n Roses, Queen, Whitney Houston & Snap!