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The quality of a Super Furry Animals record usually increases in proportion to its ebullience. So with an opener titled "Crazy Naked Girls," the Welsh psych-pop band's ninth studio disc initially appears to be a career-best candidate.

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Dan Keyes turned more heads in 2007 with his dance-rock debut as Young Love than he ever did fronting his middling emo band Recover. So you can understand why the scene-savvy New Yorker would pump up the deep-throb disco beats even more on this follow-up, which plays like the soundtrack to a self-consciously debauched night out on the Lower East Side.

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The lineup of this semi-supergroup isn’t as odd as it initially might seem: Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger and ex–Smashing Pumpkin James Iha co-own Scratchie Records, and Schlesinger’s background writing songs for the Jonas Brothers and That Thing You Do! surely prepared him for a collabo with the cute one from Hanson. (As for Cheap Trick drummer Bun E.

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Plenty of young indie acts pay lip service to the fuck-you spirit of Bob Dylan’s mid- '60s pairing with the Band (then called the Hawks), but precious few honor the raggedy-ass electric folk that they hooked up together.

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These dreamy Los Angeles rockers keep the guitars thick and gauzy on the follow-up to their 2006 debut, Carnavas, which recalled vintage Smashing Pumpkins more than the Pumpkins' own Zeitgeist did.

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Long before My Morning Jacket spiked their Southern-rock jams with early-'80s electro beats, these Bonnaroo-friendly Brits were mixing space-age electronica into their funky art-blues brew. Those dots and loops still ripple throughout Gomez's sixth studio album -- check how "Win Park Slope" works up to a Chemical Brothers–style climax.