Mew, 'No More Stories...' (Columbia)

Floridly pop-rockin’ Danes progress by regressing.

Forward, it’s enticing -- but in reverse, it’s sublime. Not just “New Terrain,” the vocal-looping and tape-rewinding opener of Mew’s fourth album, but

Amanda Blank, 'I Love You' (Downtown)

Sextronic rapper insists you smell her female.

Don’t you hate pants?

Yim Yames, 'Tribute To' (ATO)

A belated farewell to rock’s most unassuming artiste.

After George Harrison’s death in November 2001, a grieving Jim James of My Morning Jacket recorded this small, sad tribute EP to the Quiet Beatle. The result is spare and somber -- just that windy Americana tenor against a squeaky acoustic guitar.

Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard, ' 'Em Are I' (Rough Trade)

Cuddly anti-folk banter hints at bleak complexity.

What's that they say -- a Moldy Peach gathers no moss?

Little Boots, 'Illuminations' (Elektra)

British synth nymphet concocts neo-disco coup.

What if Caligula sang post-rave dance pop?

Sonic Youth, 'The Eternal' (Matador)

Punk's crafty parental unit puts heads to bed.

How nice it’d be to come home to her / And sit by the fireplace and she in the kitchen / Aproned young and lovely wanting my baby / And so happy about me she burns the roast beef,” angrily riffed an unhitched Gregory Corso in his 1959 poem “Marriage.” So perhaps it’s with empathy that on Sonic Youth’s 16th album, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore leave a simmering, wistful offering on h

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