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Renowned for his swashbuckling swing with the Dirty Three, Aussie percussionist Jim White also plays behind White Magic, Nick Cave, and PJ Harvey, and now shares top billing with neo-gothic New York chanteuse Nina Nastasia (whom he also backed on her last three albums). Call it a duet, with White encouraging the dour singer to turn back toward the light.

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For all the love given to classic, built-from-scratch girl groups - even Rhino's 2005 B-list box set, One Kiss Can Lead to Another, received almost universal acclaim - it's surprising that they're so rarely manufactured successfully (except when they're pseudo strippers like the Pussycat Dolls).

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Odd Nosdam's David Madson -- also known as beatsmith for the avant hip-hop threesome cLOUDDEAD -- finally gives his dark, dense instrumentals room to breathe on his fifth album.

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Treated like deities in the U.K. but ignored Stateside (guitarist Richey Edwards' tragic disappearance before a 1995 U.S. tour was a devastating setback), Manic Street Preachers have spent a career combining meaty protest rants and slick stadium hooks.

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On their follow-up to 2003's D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat, this Danish duo condense pop's last 45 years into the pure, simple essence of an early Jackson 5 single. In word, style, and sound, they exude cross-cultural idealism with scratchy soul guitars, joyous bubblegum hooks, shape-shifting harmonies, stuttering rhymes, and live beats.

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It's a good thing Mavado sounds so miserable. If he didn't, the dancehall don's debut -- a barrage of drum-and bass-heavy tunes about guns, guns, and more guns -- might become just another bloated, repetitive exercise in glorified clichés.