Label: Matador

Artists

• Algiers:
  • Algiers [2015] **
  • The Underside of Power [2017] A-
  • There Is No Year [2020] ***
  • Shook [2023] A-
• Arsonists:
  • As the World Burns [1999]
• Babylon Dance Band:
  • Four on One [1994]
• Bar Italia:
  • Tracey Denim [2023] A-
  • The Twits [2023] ***
• Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile:
  • Lotta Sea Lice [2017] **
• Belle and Sebastian:
  • The Boy With the Arab Strap [1998] A-
  • Tigermilk [1999] A-
  • The Life Pursuit [2006] *
• Bettie Serveert:
  • Palomine [1992] **
  • Kid's Alright [1993]
  • Lamprey [1995]
  • Dust Bunnies [1997] **
• Boygenius:
  • Boygenius EP [2018] **
• R.L. Burnside:
  • A Ass Pocket of Whiskey [1996]
• Car Seat Headrest:
  • Teens of Style [2015] **
  • Teens of Denial [2016] A
  • Twin Fantasy [2018] A-
  • Making a Door Less Open [2020] *
• Cat Power:
  • Moon Pix [1998] C+
  • The Greatest [2006] *
  • Sun [2012] **
• Chelsea Light Moving:
  • Chelsea Light Moving [2013] B+
• Come:
  • Eleven: Eleven [1993] C+
• Condo F---s:
  • F---book [2009] *
• Cornelius:
  • Fantasma [1998]
• Lucy Dacus:
  • Home Video [2021] A-
• Demolition Doll Rods:
  • T.L.A. [1999] *
• Dust Devils:
  • Geek Drip [1990]
  • Struggling Electric and Chemical [1990]
• Mark Eitzel:
  • Caught in a Trap and I Can't Back Out 'Cause I Love You Too Much, Baby [1998]
• Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo:
  • Strange But True [1998] **
• The Fall:
  • The Infotainment Scan [1993] ***
  • Middle Class Revolt [1994]
• Fuck:
  • Pardon My French [1997]
• God Help the Girl:
  • Stills [2009] ***
  • God Help the Girl [2009] A-
• The Goon Sax:
  • Mirror II [2021] **
• Kim Gordon:
  • No Home Record [2019] A
  • The Collective [2024] A-
• Guided by Voices:
  • Alien Lanes [1995]
• Guitar Wolf:
  • Jet Generation [1999] *
• Helium:
  • Pirate Prude [1994]
  • The Dirt of Luck [1995]
• Interpol:
  • Turn On the Bright Lights [2002] C+
  • Antics [2004]
• Jaguar Love:
  • Jaguar Love [2008] A-
  • Take Me to the Sea [2008]
• Large Professor:
  • 1st Class [2002] **
• Stephen Malkmus:
  • Stephen Malkmus [2001] A-
  • Face the Truth [2005] B+
• Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks:
  • Pig Lib [2003] ***
  • Real Emotional Trash [2008] ***
  • Sparkle Hard [2018] ***
• Stephen T. Malkmus:
  • Traditional Techniques [2020] **
• Mecca Normal:
  • Sitting on Snaps [1995]
  • The Eagle and the Poodle [1996] C
• Mission of Burma:
  • On Off On [2004] **
  • The Obliterati [2006] **
  • The Sound the Speed the Light [2009] *
• Mdou Moctar:
  • Afrique Victime [2021] ***
  • Funeral for Justice [2024] A-
  • Tears of Injustice [2025] **
• Mogwai:
  • Come On Die Young [1999] C
• Thurston Moore:
  • Demolished Thoughts [2011] A-
  • The Best Day [2014] **
• A.C. Newman:
  • The Slow Wonder [2004] ***
  • Get Guilty [2009] **
• The New Pornographers:
  • Electric Version [2003] B+
  • Twin Cinema [2005] **
  • Challengers [2007] B+
  • Together [2010] *
  • Brill Bruisers [2014] A-
• Pavement:
  • Slanted and Enchanted [1992] A
  • Watery Domestic [1992] A-
  • Gold Soundz [1994]
  • Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain [1994] A
  • Wowee Zowee [1995] A
  • Rattled by La Rush [1995]
  • Pacific Trim [1996] B+
  • Brighten the Corners [1997] A
  • Shady Lane [1997] A-
  • Terror Twilight [1999] A-
  • Major Leagues [2000]
  • Crooked Rain Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins [2004] ***
• Perfume Genius:
  • No Shape [2017] A-
• Liz Phair:
  • Exile in Guyville [1993] A
  • Whip-Smart [1994] **
  • Juvenilia [1995] A-
• Pizzicato Five:
  • Made in USA [1994] B
• The Ponys:
  • Turn the Lights Out [2007] **
• Railroad Jerk:
  • Railroad Jerk [1990] *
  • One Track Mind [1995]
  • The Third Rail [1996] B+
• Lee Ranaldo:
  • Between the Times and the Tides [2012] A-
• Lee Ranaldo and the Dust:
  • Last Night on Earth [2013] A-
• Jay Reatard:
  • Matador Singles '08 [2008] B+
  • Watch Me Fall [2009] A-
• Run On:
  • Start Packing [1996]
• The San Francisco Seals:
  • Nowhere [1994]
• S.F. Seals:
  • Baseball Trilogy [1993] *
  • Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows [1995] *
• The Shams:
  • Quilt [1991]
  • Sedusia [1993] A-
• Shearwater:
  • The Snow Leopard [2008]
  • Rook [2008] C-
• Solex:
  • Solex Vs. the Hitmeister [1998]
• Sonic Youth:
  • The Eternal [2009] A-
  • Battery Park, NYC: July 4th 2008 [2019] A
• The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion:
  • Orange [1994] B-
  • Now I Got Worry [1996]
• Spoon:
  • Hot Thoughts [2017] ***
  • Lucifer on the Sofa [2022] **
• Sportsguitar:
  • Happy Already [1998] *
• Superchunk:
  • Superchunk [1990]
• Teenage Fanclub:
  • God Knows It's True [1990] B+
• Thinking Fellers Union Local #282:
  • Lovelyville [1991] B-
• Times New Viking:
  • Rip It Off [2008] *
• Water From Your Eyes:
  • Everyone's Crushed [2023] A
• Yo La Tengo:
  • Painful [1993] A-
  • Tom Courtenay [1995]
  • Electr-O-Pura [1995] A
  • Camp Yo La Tengo [1995]
  • Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo [1996]
  • I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One [1997] A
  • And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out [2000] B+
  • Nuclear War [2002] **
  • Summer Sun [2003] A
  • Today Is the Day [2003] *
  • Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs 1985-2003 [2005]  
  • I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass [2006] A-
  • Popular Songs [2009] **
  • Fade [2013] A-
  • Stuff Like That There [2015] A
  • There's a Riot Going On [2018] A-
  • This Stupid World [2023] B+