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This singer/songwriter's second album combines subtle notions of folk and electronics, and the result is fleetingly pop-oriented music that sounds transmitted from a bedroom on Venus.

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You have to travel pretty far back -- to Michael Zilkha's late-'70s/early-'80s Ze Records -- to find New York dance music as purely entertaining as the minimalist, thumping tracks of DFA's James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy. In the same spirit as the pair's first volume, Chapter 2 doesn't merely document; it selects tracks that hold together as an album.

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On their first album, this young quartet addresses closeness, separation, girls, socializing, isolation, and more girls. Indirect or galloping, their melodies are always high-impact, and the strikingly textured guitars, drums and keyboards turn out rolling grooves with just the right amount of sonic friction.

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Since the early '90s, the music of this Swedish band has been variously tight, concise, loose, and floppy; once they even recorded with Tom Jones. Here, they go for stripped-down indie-toned guitar, rather than glistening sonic sheen.