We have had our share of very good compilation albums this year. Take Dark Was The Night for example, curated by the Dessner brothers of The National, which next to providing us with some brilliant pieces of music also gave us an insight in the current creative zeitgeist in Brooklyn. A sampler, though, by definition, will not provide that (unless, of course, your label is called Kitsuné). Strike! is the sampler of Counter Records, and with such a name you do expect a bit of punk, which the sampler duly provides. The album is an introduction to their roster, which means that next to not really being an album in the sense that it has a build up and has an idea behind it, it will also be wildly uneven.