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Mugison has often been stamped as the Icelandic Beck, but on his fourth album, he edges onto John Lennon's turf. The irreverent electro rocker, no stranger to smirking puns and helter-skelter noise, marks a straighter course with Mugiboogie's ramshackle rock and Plastic Ono Band snarls.

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If the ultra-lo-fi shitgaze genre (Pink Reason, Times New Viking) represents one extreme of indie pop, Son Ambulance clearly represents the other. Omaha-based multi-instrumentalist Joe Knapp spent three years making Someone Else's Déjà Vu, and the album is another reminder that lush studio-reliant soft and prog rock of the late '70s can still offer legitimate inspiration.

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When she's singing, pioneering mystic punk Patti Smith can be extraordinarily mortal. But in recitation, she approaches the godly, delivering her poetry's surreal grace with sheer force.

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Not unlike friend and collaborator Björk, songwriter/producer Leila Arab concocts electronica that seduces by surprise. With guest vocalists crooning over synth wiggles seemingly lifted from Aphex Twin's Richard D.

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Michael "Killer Mike" Render follows a long tradition of fiery street rappers with Black Panther complexes. Best known for raining hardcore rhymes on OutKast's otherwise cheery hit "The Whole World," the bellicose Atlanta MC unveils a violent worldview on I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II.

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Julian Casablancas gets most of the Strokes' songwriting glory, but Albert Hammond Jr. is almost trumping him in quantity. ¿ Cómo Te Llama? is the guitarist's second solo disc since his main band went on hiatus, and it's another solid collection that echoes his day job from an artful distance.