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Amid the globules of sound on "Cobwebs," Animal Collective's Avey Tare mumbles about being "organic like strawberry meat." But on this new four-song EP, that's as close as the Brooklyn group gets to the compacted Day-Glo noise pop of last year's Strawberry Jam.

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Named for Martin Denny's seminal exotica/lounge album, Quiet Village opt for a sketchy sunset -- rather than the more traditional nymph in a loincloth -- on the cover of their woozy, sampledelic debut.

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Since re-forming for the 2002 comeback Specialist in All Styles, this ’70s/’80s Senegalese band, like elder rockers Mission of Burma and Wire, remain incan-descent and relevant a second time around. Revisiting tunes from nights spent in steamy

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The first female artist to release a record on the famed Kompakt label, Jennifer Cardini distills those disorienting moments when you first plunge into the murk of an underground club.

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Grammy-winning soul man Van Hunt is stuck in commercial limbo: too impish to fill the neoclassicist void left by D'Angelo and Maxwell, not quirky enough to cross over to white alternative fans (see André 3000, Cee-Lo). Add Capitol shifting him to jazz label Blue Note, and Hunt has reason to be frustrated.