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No one does depression like the Swedes, except maybe for the Brits of yore. Stockholm’s Johan Angergård tries to master his pain by paying tribute to the U.K.

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When a songwriting collaboration with Jack White led to a partnership in the Raconteurs, power-pop cultist Brendan Benson tasted success far beyond the scope of his genre.

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Any indie dude can bawl a sad song, but singing a genuinely uplifting one is tougher. Conjuring the communal spirits of both club music and underground rock, this seven-piece Seattle act pack their emphatically nonautomated Europop with arena-rock guitars, giddy girlie vocals, and vocoders set to stun.

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If he didn't collaborate with Lykke Li and other blogger beloveds, Stockholm synth-pop producer Andreas Kleerup would be deemed decidedly uncool.

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New Yorker Andrew Wyatt fronts the brainy, unsung rock band Fires of Rome. Swedes Pontus Winnberg and Christian Karlsson, a.k.a. Bloodshy & Avant, mastermind transatlantic smashes like Britney Spears' "Toxic." But here, the trio's talents commingle easily in cotton-candy psychedelia that sticks plush electro effects where backward guitar solos and frilly paisley shirts would ordinarily hang.

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M.I.A. collaborators Diplo and Switch recorded this futuristic dancehall set in Jamaica with cameos both local (Ms. Thing) and international (Santigold), and the results are packaged as the debut of cartoonish, laser-limbed vampire killer Major Lazer.