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Self-absorbed and awkwardly exhibitionistic, Mika would be the Brüno of platinum piano pop if he didn't ground his giddiness with old-fashioned chops.

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The house band of Tropicália -- Brazil’s late-’60s art movement so revolutionary that the government shut it down -- has been championed by Kurt Cobain, imitated by Beck, and reissued by David Byrne.

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Trading punk squawk for kaleidoscopic pop, this London trio’s second album gives bassist-singer Shingai Shoniwa a deserved platform, and she flaunts an aural star power as striking as her glamazon thighs and sky-high hair.

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On his previous offerings, this Norwegian singer-songwriter has been a smooth jazz crooner, a spiky pop-rocker, and a simpatico soundtrack composer. With Heartbeat Radio, Lerche aligns all his identities: Gentlemanly melodies glide across elegant guitars and High Llama Sean O’Hagan’s swelling string arrangements.

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Like many other DJs, Chicago’s electroclash pioneer doesn’t always write great, actual songs. But after suffering from a scarcity of such on 2007’s flat flop Virgo Blaktro & the Movie Disco, Felix Stallings Jr. bounces back by sampling, quoting, and paraphrasing other people’s rubbery tunes, and showcasing them in similarly elastic settings.

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As suggested by their sixth album’s title, the members of this Venezuela-born, New York City-based dance band bridge language barriers by making their music relentlessly accessible. Focusing on faster and tighter live grooves, the fun-loving fusionists (led by primary songwriter and guitarist Jose Luis Pardo) limit studio experimentation to jingle-size interludes.