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"I know it turns you off when I get talking like a teen," sings Sara Quin in "On Directing," a cut from the sixth studio album by Quin and her twin sister, Tegan.

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Nobody comes to a Devendra Banhart record for trenchant insight into the human condition. "All my thoughts are hairs on a wild, wild boar," he muses here on "Chin Chin & Muck Muck." Instead, Banhart's albums offer ashram-appropriate guitar strums, trippy-hippie tone poetry and, if you're lucky, at least one tune where he sings from the perspective of a rodent.

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These Providence noisescene kings' fifth album comes by its title honestly: Earthly Delights plays like an epic couch-surf around the globe, with scratchy African guitars ("Flooded Chamber"), scuzzy Southernboogie riffs ("Funny Farm"), and a springy dream-pop melody straight out of the Kiwi-rock handbook ("Rain on Lake I'm Swimming In").

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On her sweetly sassy solo debut, former Be Your Own Pet frontwoman Jemina Pearl makes the big pop move BYOP always seemed suspicious of, singing about good times and bad boys over fuzzy girl-group guitars that collapse the distance between the Ronettes and the Runaways.

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The First Days of Spring documents the last days of a relationship -- namely, the one between Charlie Fink, who leads this U.K. twee-folk ensemble, and Laura Marling, who sang on Noah and the Whale's 2008 debut before moving on to her solo career.

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How do you follow three self-titled albums of cranky punk shenanigans?