Invasion of the Indie Snatchers

(Allied)
by Jeff Fritz

How are you supposed to review a compilation like this? There are 24 songs by 24 bands. They have no relation to one another stylistically or thematically. I’m not sure why they’re all crammed together on the same CD. It’s a broad enough cross-section that some songs are great, some really suck, and the rest are mostly harmless. I could go through the disc track by track and dish out my clever little opinion, but that would be as tedious for me to write as for you to read, so let’s not. If you’re interested in what’s going on with independent record labels this year, listen to this a few times.