Various Artists - Suicide Squeeze: Slaying Since 1996

Suicide Squeeze: Slaying Since 1996 acts as both a time capsule of the label’s storied history and a core sample of each presented artist’s body of work. Suicide Squeeze pulled out all of the stops by adding previously unreleased and out-of-print tracks by the likes of Of Montreal, The Black Heart Procession, Black Mountain, and Hella to the compilation’s roster. While the album does stand as a great portrait of the label some of the material has either lost its bite over the years or was lackluster to begin with; i.e. the DJ Dinomite D remix of Modest Mouse and 764-Hero’s team-up, “Whenever You See Fit.” Nonetheless, the double-disc set has it’s fair share of stand-out songs including: Modest Mouse’s “A Life of Arctic Sounds”, The Melvins’ “With Teeth” (Live), and Les Savy Fav’s “We’ll Make a Lover Out of You.” [www.suicidesqueeze.net]