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One of his generation's great poets of the mundane has formed a band about a great mundane pastime: aimlessly rewriting whatever song's on the radio.

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With Jonathan Meiburg's luxuriant, lachrymose croon topping the slow-cresting violins of this tasteful rock ensemble, The Golden Archipelago will surely satisfy listeners in need of a melodramatic nap.

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Never say this California quartet isn't crowd-pleasing: They swagger into opener "Audience" with a crisp breakbeat that anchors Nathan Willett's loose, blue-eyed soul testifying; it may be the closest indie rock ever comes to Maroon 5. As usual, though, Willett also tries to showcase his brainpower, clumsily referencing works most commonly studied in AP literature.

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Stephin Merritt has spent almost 20 years writing songs about wanting what he can't have. Eventually, you'd expect the guy would use up every conceivable metaphor, rhyming couplet, and sick joke about his unrequited loves.

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In an era when "cover" often means emasculation via tasteful piano or kitschy synth, Supergrass' Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey deliver 12 blasts of stylistic tinkering that never subsume the songs' original intent: to rock.

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There's a certain type of Animal Collective song that excites only the band's devotees: an ambient spiritual so suffused with a reverb-heavy drone that it's like dry ice has flooded your speakers.