Imagine Belle and Sebastian all grown up, writing music for public television specials and working as music professors.

Ultimately, though, the question should be whether or not a compilation like this makes me want to seek out the original.

Fake Brain’s Department of Our Ways is nothing less than refreshing.

If this band doesn’t effect you, check your pulse because you’re probably dead.

My less-informed-than-some view is that Yo La Tengo are steadily getting more subtle, more heady, and better with age.

The age of electric boogaloo and breakdancing is here once again.

The Deadlines have taken punk and forced it to be as creative as possible, compared to much of the punk found on Tooth and Nail Records.

Honest, relaxed indie-pop that might be a little innocuous at times but still comes off as solid and heartfelt.

I sense that Goodnight Star tried a bit too hard to create an album with a predetermined sound.

Ho-hum, flat, and even downright dull at times

If you come to this album looking for another quick new wave fix, you might be a little disappointed.

Easily some of the most creative music I’ve heard coming out of the Christian scene in a long time.

William Orbit takes pieces by the likes of Vivaldi and Beethoven, as well as Cage, Satie, and Górecki, and runs them through his bank of synthesizers.

Jon Sonnenberg and Robert Gutschow’s latest is fuller-sounding than its predecessor, but still contains a few inessential bits.

Ween has spawned a blend of their best feats and presented them on one disc.

Looking for high quality love songs? This is a good record for doing that.

Royal captures the beautiful sound found in well-done emo and leaves you with elegant melodies.

One of the few movies in recent memory where I was forced to look at the concepts and ideas behind the dialog and images.

I am here to say that Sigur Rós lives up to everything you’ve ever read or heard about them.

What keeps Molasses from sounding like a tired rendition of old folk numbers is the alien sense of dread and foreboding just below the surface.