October made it hard for there to be a bad set of songs with the release of some major beat thumpers. TV on the Radio came out with their new album recently and was a second place finalist for this month's compilation with "Dancing Choose," which just goes to show how stiff the competition was. Ben Folds came out with his new CD, and if it weren't his collaboration with ChipperDemon's favorite Russian musician, Regina Spektor, who knows if he would have even gotten an honorable mention. Ingrid Michaelson, whom you may recognize from last October's mix, has also come out with her new album and has proven to just get better and better. 

To have also improved over the year is Los Campesinos! with their new released stuff. They made an appearance on last November's CD. To top off all the big name releases, Jukebox the Ghost, from June, April and October, has been reported to be in the studio and mixing up some good stuff for their next album. Luckily, we got a hold of the demo and are more than excited to include two of their premature productions in October's collection. Aside from the known names there are quite a few new musicians added to ChipperDemon's artist folder this month as well. Mother Mother and Jared Mees and the Grown Children are happy additions.

The CD starts out with a rather unusual beginning song for ChipperDemon and then slips in and out of indie rock tracks and kind of lacks the build up that usually occurs at the beginning and instead goes from a constant middle ground beat pace to slowing down in the middle completely changing the feel till it returns again. The CD does run the risk of sounding a little monotonous with all of the indie rock tracks. The bonus tracks are the most fast paced songs and perhaps the best songs on the entire CD... too bad you can't vote for them.