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On this manic quintet's fourth album, they pile layers of instruments and voices into carnival waltzes and off-kilter sing-alongs like they want to be Chicago's answer to Os Mutantes. The ingenuous, carefully composed refrains of "Regretting Our Fathers" and "New Life" display the band's gift for unaffected hookiness.

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On their 2006 album Echo Other, spacey Australian collective All India Radio achieved a state of cool grace, mixing airy trip-hop and spaghetti-western moodiness. Perhaps seeking an earthier vibe, leader Martin Kennedy nudges the band toward mainstream pop by adding singer Leona Prue, but her lovely, polite voice generates minimal heat.

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The Re-Up Gang -- Clipse plus Philadelphia MCs Ab-Liva and Sandman -- made their bones on the revelatory three-volume mix-tape series We Got It 4 Cheap, and this full-length is an official introductory vehicle for Pusha T and Malice's moderately less-talented brethren.

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On their debut album, this New Jersey quintet unfurls a series of banner-waving, punkish anthems (plus a couple of slow-burners) that, with its E Street Band–through-a-blender production, convey a raw, deeply palpable blue-collar sympathy.

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In Russian, it's called vremya peremen -- a time of change. And that describes Alina Simone's third album, which takes a more elegant approach than the cranky indie pop of 2007's Placelessness and is in another language entirely.

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Trying to pin a label on Plastilina Mosh is like attempting to catch a smoke ring. A decade after their major-label debut, Aquamosh (and the infectious MTV hit single "Mr. P.