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The universe tends toward disarray. Stars explode. Planets collide. Singers in white suits douse themselves in fake blood.

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If you laughed when you heard these musical parodies on the New Zealand duo's HBO show, you'll probably laugh again the first time you hear them here. But like most comedy albums, this one loses its luster upon repeated hearings. Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement are uniquely talented mimics -- the title track's R.

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Nobody comes to a Devendra Banhart record for trenchant insight into the human condition. "All my thoughts are hairs on a wild, wild boar," he muses here on "Chin Chin & Muck Muck." Instead, Banhart's albums offer ashram-appropriate guitar strums, trippy-hippie tone poetry and, if you're lucky, at least one tune where he sings from the perspective of a rodent.

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Spike Jonze's adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are is a woolly testament to the thrill of building (and breaking) stuff. It's about a boy -- about being a boy -- which might render Karen O an odd choice for soundtrack muse.

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There's no mistaking Alec Ounsworth's voice: Even with backup from New Orleans ringers -- drummer Stanton Moore and keyboardist Robert Walter, among others -- the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah frontman can't escape his nervous yelp.

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In the 11 years since releasing the patchy Psycho Circus, Kiss have marketed kaskets, opened a koffeeshop, and released krappy solo albums, apparently on a mission to make everyone but diehards forget that, for a few LPs running, they were the greatest rock band of the '70s.