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Though still youthfully rabid at three albums old, these Houston miscreants easily could've sprung from the late-'80s pigfuck scene (Killdozer, Scratch Acid, Big Black). Thankfully, their tunes -- lumbering, treble-scarred shit-fits that are equal parts the Birthday Party and Fun House-era Stooges -- pack greater oomph than nostalgia acts usually manage.

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When Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter dropped their substandard Human After All three years ago, Daft Punk seemed destined to join the ranks of '90s electronic acts whose sales shrank with the dot-com bust.

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When Daft Punk's alien ghetto blast "Da Funk" touched down at a Texas rave in the late '90s, there wasn't an X Files-level conspiracy panic, but the ground was irreparably shaken for drummer/ keyboardist/producer Thomas Turner.

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The Berlin-based duo of Arno Kammermeier and Walter Merziger up the sonic intrigue on tracks by Heaven 17, Aphex Twin, Carl Craig, the Tubes (!), and others with their gospeldeep, elegantly wood-toned beats.

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Grizzly Bear have a penchant for cannibalizing their own work, following 2004's debut, Horn of Plenty, with a remix record that enlisted like-minded peers to reimagine the quartet's signature space folk. Friend is a collection of collaborations, covers, and remixes, featuring Band of Horses, CSS, Deerhunter's Bradford Cox, and others.

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Young has spent the balance of this century releasing albums terrible (Are You Passionate?), conceptual (Greendale), and gimmicky yet heartfelt (Living With War). So it's strange to encounter a record that's just like he used to make -- distorto riffs for their own sake and quasi roots rock with a tangible sense of loss and hope.