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Remember fall '92?

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Young has spent the balance of this century releasing albums terrible (Are You Passionate?), conceptual (Greendale), and gimmicky yet heartfelt (Living With War). So it's strange to encounter a record that's just like he used to make -- distorto riffs for their own sake and quasi roots rock with a tangible sense of loss and hope.

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This Philly trio prefers to nuke first and apologize never. Their second album is not as kinetic, nor as indebted to Big Black as 2005's violent debut, Nevermind (the title should give you a hint of their bite-me worldview), but its sludgy, creeping noise still flattens everything in sight.

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Math metal was invented in Richmond's heavy punk scene, so it's not too surprising that while these epic mathletes joined up in Savannah, Georgia, the members originally hailed from Virginia. Gritty guitars harmonize like Destiny's Child, and the intricate, huge-sounding songs can't decide if they'd rather be in the gutter or reaching for the stars, so leader John Baizley howls about both.

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With TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek producing, and cameos from Afrobeat collective Anti­balas and Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner, this Baltimore-based trio struggle to escape the shadow cast by their peers. Drummer David Bergander's ethnic rhythms (see Antibalas) drive Sean Antanaitis' atmospheric keyboards (see TV on the Radio), while Katrina Ford coos, wails, and shrieks (see Karen O).