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While retaining the meticulous sonics of Beck/Radiohead collaborator Nigel Godrich, Air's Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel eliminate almost all percussion from their fourth album, streamlining the music's already intimate Gallic lushness and plaintive melodicism.

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Of all the current dance-rock acts, LCD Soundsystem generates grooves that are the most simultaneously disco and punk.

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Accompanied mostly by her acoustic guitar, newcomer Alela Diane Menig sings stark, ghostly folk. And while her chords and picking may be beginner's stuff, she's already flaunting a large, lived-in growl flavored by antediluvian blues and jazz inflections.

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Collecting four privately distributed EPs, plus a new one, this two-hour, five-disc retrospective of the Brooklyn songwriter's Christmas-themed output documents Stevens' transformation from unremarkable folkie Jesus freak to unorthodox Christian mega-talent.

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Late last year Columbia sent this New York alternative cabaret singer's 16-track second album to some magazines (including this one) for review (read more), despite her intention to release it as a more sprawling 23-track disc.

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Like the twitchy new-wave bands on which they're modeled, Los Angeles' Ima Robot enthusiastically satisfy sugar cravings when they hang their prefab power chords and plastic synth hooks on spiffy melodies, like during their second album's Oingo Boingo–esque opening and closing cuts ("Disconnect" and "Dangerous Life").