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There's more talking and singsong vocalization than rapping in these forgotten blues, jazz, gospel, and hillbilly oddities from the 1920s through the 1950s, but the contemporary hip-hop connection couldn't be clearer if there were a T-Pain cameo.

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Inara George coos in an airy soprano that recalls early Disney heroines, while Greg Kurstin brings sophisticated songwriting, production, and instrumental skills honed with Beck and Lily Allen. Together, the duo fashion capricious, synth-tinged retro pop brimming with kaleidoscopic detail.

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In 2001, a year before her fatal auto accident, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes quietly released the import-only Supernova, a thoughtful hip-hop solo debut packed with askew rhymes and low-key rhythms.

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For their 21st album, these eternally deft, art-pop brothers stick to the operatic splendor they embraced on 2002's Lil' Beethoven. Russell Mael warbles falsetto witticisms while keyboardist Ron overdubs himself into digitized mini symphonies, sometimes adorned by metal-guitar riffage (check the "Sweet Child o' Mine"–like doodle that animates "Lighten Up, Morrissey").

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When the tour manager unpacks a pistol from a FedEx box, there's a strong hint that the documentary of this French electro-house duo's spring 2008 American trek will end badly. And after numerous trips to shooting ranges, the Las Vegas wedding of Justice's mutton-chopped Gaspard Augé to a blurred-faced babe, and très Girls Gone Wild–like backstage footage, it does.

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These British radio recordings document the Scottish chamber-pop group's beginnings with cellist/vocalist Isobel Campbell, who makes a final appearance on four 2001 exclusives that capture the septet tangled up in twee, soon-to-be-trimmed tangents.