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Entrancing chamber-pop songstress Joan Wasser easily could get by on just voice and piano, but for her second album, she flexes more ambition, and the results are rewarding.

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On their sixth album, these ever-evolving German indie rockers stick with the electronic-tinged direction of 2003’s Neon Golden, but with a little less emotional heft.

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This New Zealand duo dignify the term "novelty band," whether spoofing Pet Shop Boys or decrying the high cost of sneakers made by "little slave kids" in a socially conscious soul anthem. Divorced from their HBO series, the songs have room to stretch a little, only occasionally sacrificing context.

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In 2002, the Breeders ended their nine-year studio hiatus with the comeback-worthy Title TK, an album that veered off the three-minute- pop-song path, yet still offered a few good jolts. On its first track, Mountain Battles shows potential for the same electricity and strangeness.

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It's been 14 years since Supergrass first charmed fans of youthful indiscretion, and since then, they've shed much of the cheekiness that got them in and out of trouble. Much, but not all.

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On this band's 2006 debut, teen singer Jemima Pearl's imaginative lines about love as a scrap between a "wildcat" and a "worm," as well as her saucy suggestion that her boyfriend was a "parasol," emerged from a blur of garage-rock destruction. Here,