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Leigh and Chandra Watson first pricked up indie-rock ears when they backed Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis on her 2006 solo debut, Rabbit Fur Coat. Their haunting harmonies are in full effect throughout the L.A.-based sister act's first full-length, on which they coo seductively over atmospheric folk-rock arrangements.

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Try and conjure a time when sincerity was the new irony. Powered by assuredly picked banjo, homespun overdubs, and a reedy, authoritative warble that Neil Young cribbed, this collection of startling demos is a vivid snapshot of the folk-music scene at its early-'60s culture-defining moment.

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If it’s Tuesday, it must be time for another Robert Pollard record. The twist with his latest -- the man’s third long-player in less than a year -- is that it appears on Pollard’s own Guided by Voices Inc. imprint. But despite the invocation of those crusty legends, Business is no lo-fi throwback.

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The trajectory of My Morning Jacket from humble folkies with jam-band tendencies into a group with Super Bowl halftime potential may seem an unlikely career arc. From the band's first album, 1999's The Tennessee Fire, singer/guitarist Jim James has couched his ghostly, reverb-soaked falsetto in American Gothicism. The tunes were pretty and a tad creepy, but somewhat shapeless.

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El Madmo is the indie outfit that provides multiplatinum, adult-contemporary chanteuse Norah Jones a chance to -- as the disc's rollicking set-closer puts it -- "Rock Yer Balls Off." Jones and Co.

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