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Despite the disarmingly stupid album title (sounds like a necrophile's eHarmony page), the Warlocks are more funereal than ever. The Los Angeles quartet (halved from the lineup of 2005's Surgery) load their pinwheeling psychedelic rock with twice the distorted strings and percussion, but the outcome is sluggishly unrealized.

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Halfway through "Plastic Girl," the opening track on the Busy Signals' debut, a Buzzcocks riff gives way to a hot and sweaty X-style harmony between throaty singer Ana McGorty and bassist Jeremy Thompson.

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Old Time Relijun's seventh album has its precedents: producer Calvin Johnson's trademark no-fi pop, the Cramps' sexed-up shockabilly, Captain Beefheart's gnarled jazz and R&B (OTR's name even references a Beefheart tune).

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Sounding less like the jazz-funk chanteuse of old, Ndegeocello incorporates melodic post-punk à la TV on the Radio and channels Funkadelic's acidic guitar on her seventh album.

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Here's how it'll go: First, you'll see this young Texas singer/songwriter on the cover of his debut album -- sitting in the middle of a desolate highway, jeans torn, cowboy hat. Then you'll flip on the first track and hear pleasantly road-worn fingerpicking, plaintive harmonica, and a cigarette scorched moan.