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From the late '80s into the 90s, this clamorous, lo-fi New Zealand trio flailed agains the country's thriving indie-pop scene (centered on the Flying Nun label), occasionally creating an outright squalid masterpiece like 1995's White House. They've not budged an iota since, as the cheekily titled Future Artists attests.

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On James Jackson Toth's (allegedly) final album under the Wooden Wand moniker, the New York singer/songwriter mewls that he's been a "busy honeybee in a bucket of tar" (and considering that he's recorded 20-plus records with the freak-folk collective the Vanishing Voice already this century, that's a lot of goop).

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Perhaps 2007 will be the year of the post-rock revival, with Explosions in the Sky's exquisite roar, Battles' brawny, whippet-fueled prog, and this reunion album by British power trio Fridge. During their six-year hiatus, drummer Sam Jeffers enrolled at Harvard, bassist Adem Ilhan made twinkling pop under his first name, and guitarist Kieran Hebden perfected robot jazz as Four Tet.