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Cliché or not, Drive-By Truckers’ leftovers really are better than most bands’ main course.

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She might be Hank’s granddaughter, but Holly Williams doesn’t let the lovesick blues get her down on this twangy-yet-smooth sophomore effort.

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Sometimes pigeonholed as a bluesman, Otis Taylor can’t be defined by any single category. The follow-up to an album celebrating the African roots of the banjo, Pentatonic Wars is a sprawling folk and jazz set featuring everything from cornet to cello to djembe drums as backing for Taylor’s resilient rasp.

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Jack Peñate’s winning 2007 debut, Matinée, snatched a page from bright ’80s pop, bearing an obvious strand of Hall & Oates’ DNA. This murkier sequel enhances the dance grooves while aspiring to the morose eloquence of the Cure’s Robert Smith, with mixed yet intriguing results.

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Totally serious about their absurdity, these Norwegian oddballs use dance beats to launch consciousness-tweaking head trips.

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Hope burns bright on this Seattle-based trio’s enticing second album. Mumbly, scratchy-voiced Pete Quirk is more self-assured than on 2007’s Invitation Songs, championing optimism and determination in the face of trouble, powered by sharp folk and country-blues guitars, plus no-frills percussion.