One of the most anticipated releases of 2007 is this second album from Montreal's Arcade Fire, the Win Butler- and Regine Chassagne-led band that won over bloggers, critics, and, ultimately, fans with their 2004 debut 'Funeral.'

The aptly named 'Three' is the third solo release for graphic artist/Sea And Cake guitarist Archer Prewitt.

This is the fourth solo disc for the illustrator and Sea And Cake guitarist.

This is the second album for the British garage rockers.

Four years since its sophomore release, the British band worked with producer Tim Goldsworthy on its third album.

Imagine the Arcade Fire dosed with happy pills, stocked with toy instruments and forced to score a musical about the 1980s, and you may start getting close to the idea of this eight-piece co-ed band from Melbourne, Australia. This second album follows recent tours with the likes of Death Cab For Cutie, David Byrne and Belle And Sebastian.

The Australian band's follow-up after its remix album, "We Died, They Remixed."

Not only the most-hyped band of early 2006, Sheffield, England's Arctic Monkeys (led by 19-year-old Alex Turner) managed to accomplish what the likes of Franz Ferdinand and The Libertines couldn't do before them: set the UK record for fastest-selling debut album of all time.

The ultrahyped British rockers return with a quick successor to their Mercury Prize-winning 2006 debut.

The third album for the British band was co-produced by Josh Homme and James Ford.

Los Angeles-based Ariel Pink releases his first album on the 4AD label.

The third U.S. release for the eclectic Amsterdam-based duo (following 2001's import-only release 'Sound Shopping') contains 14 equally eclectic tunes, including highlights "Dirty Robot" and "5th Dimension."

This is the debut solo full-length album for the Harlem Shakes guitarist Todd Goldstein.

The London-based art-rockers led by Eddie Argos make their official debut with this 12-song effort.

This is the second album for the tongue-in-cheek English band fronted by Eddie Argos.

This is the second album for the Long Island indie rock band.

This is the third album for the Irish indie-punk quartet, and takes a less harsh, more pop approach than their poorly-received 1998 sophomore effort 'Nu-Clear Sounds.'

Their music sounds British and the vocals are sometimes in Japanese, but this four-piece shoegaze outfit (returning here with a second album) hails from Brooklyn.

The third album for the New York indie-rock band was produced by Chris Zane.

The fourth full-length album for the New York City-based band features reworkings of some of its previously released songs.

This is the final release for At The Drive-In, who later split to form groups Sparta and The Mars Volta.

This debut disc for the South London, England quartet (originally released in the UK in 2003) was produced by Victor Van Vugt (Beth Orton) and gained a Mercury Music Prize nomination.

This is the second album for the South London four-piece.

The fourth album for the British indie rock band was produced by Tom Rothrock.

The debut solo album from the lead singer of Deerhunter.

This is the second album for Bradford Cox's solo project.

This is the fourth LP (and first released by Epitaph) for the indie-minded Minneapolis-based duo of Slug and Ant.

The underground hip-hop duo of Slug and Ant return with a new two-disc set.

The third album for the all-girl trio from Brooklyn, New York.

The DFA produced this full-length debut for the unconventional rap outfit consisting of MC Jesse Levine and a live five-piece backing band.

The French shoegazers' third LP was co-produced by Ian Caple (Tindersticks).

"The Smiths" is a phrase you often see in descriptions of the Seattle three-piece Aveo, as their catchy, guitar-driven rock does sometimes recall Moz, Marr & co. This is their second album, produced (like the first) by Phil Ek.

This is the first album-length collaboration for the married duo of Animal Collective's Avey Tare and Mum's Kria Brekkan. No, you are not crazy; every song is indeed (intentionally) played backwards.

The debut album for the Canadian rock quintet.

The mellow indie-pop duo (Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink, both former members of Bright Eyes) returned to the studio with producer Eric Bachmann (Archers of Loaf) to record this sophomore LP. Fink and Taylor also lend their vocals to a track on Moby's latest, '18.'

Crooked Fingers' Eric Bachmann returns as producer for the third album from the duo of Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor.

The Rhode Island-based artist who began as a slam poet releases his latest hip hop album produced by Alias.

The Clash's Mick Jones produced this debut LP for the new band from The Libertines' Pete Doherty.

The veteran Southern California hardcore punk band returns with--as you may have guessed from the title--a political-themed disc, complete with carefully-footnoted lyrics.

Apart from demonstrating that his addition skills are as poor as Radiohead's, 'One Plus One' finds Damon Gough returning to the more low-key, lo-fi sound of his earlier work after the much glossier 'Have You Fed The Fish?' failed to win the British singer-songwriter new fans in 2002.

Lemon Jelly's Nick Franglen produced Damon Gough's fifth Badly Drawn Boy album.

The Austin group added four members since its 2008 album for the band's fourth album.

This is the full-length debut for the Seattle band (featuring members of the now defunct Carissa's Wierd) that has drawn comparisons to, among others, Neil Young.

The Seattle band's follow-up to their debut album.

The debut album for the indie rock band was produced by Ian Davenport.

Philly's psychedelic Bardo Pond offer up a 72-minute, ten-track disc. This is their fifth official release, and like its predecessors, it continues the tradition of using a drug reference in the title.

Since leaving the Bad Seeds (Nick Cave's backing band) in the late 1980s, Barry Adamson has embarked on a prolific career providing soundtrack music to films both real ('Gas Food Lodging,' 'The Beach') and imagined (numerous cinematic-sounding solo albums, including 'Moss Side Story'). This latest release falls into the latter category, and incorporates pop, rock, jazz, funk, and countless other styles in its ten tracks.

The second album for the Canadian singer-songwriter was produced by Howard Bilerman.

The debut album was nominated for the Mercury Prize for best British album this year.

The second album for the singer was produced by David Kosten and features guest appearances by Yeasayer and Scott Walker.

The unique New York four-piece math-rock outfit (that includes members of Helmet and Don Caballero) follows a string of three acclaimed 2004 EPs with this debut full-length, which adds (heavily processed) vocals into their mix of live and programmed instrumentation for the first time.

This self-titled release is the full-length (well, 33-minute) debut for the teen garage-rockers from Nashville fronted by the Karen O-esque Jemina Pearl.

This is the much-blogged-about first album for the Baltimore duo of Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand.

The sophomore album for the Baltimore-based indie-rock duo.

Los Angeles-based alt-country outfit Beachwood Sparks return with a second album for Sub Pop. The disc includes a cover of Sade's "By Your Side."

The debut album for the trio from Bristol was written in 12 days.

The former Anti-Pop Consortium member's second solo release is a nine-song EP, with six new tracks and three remixes by Kings, Prefuse 73 and El-P.

'Business Casual' is the debut LP for the dance-oriented Nebraska four-piece, who are frequently compared to some combination of Wire, XTC and Gang Of Four and don't sound an awful lot like any of the other bands on Saddle Creek's roster, save for maybe The Faint.

This Eastern European-sounding, multi-instrumental effort is actually the work of Albuquerque teenager Zach Condon. Members of A Hawk And A Hacksaw also lend a hand.

The first of the double EP set, March of the Zapotec, features Mexican music influences, whereas the second, Holland, includes songs made by Zach Condon under the name Realpeople.

This is the long-in-the-making debut album for the instrumental Montreal band that shares two members (Sarah Neufeld and Richard Reed Parry) with the Arcade Fire.

The third album from the Irish band, which previously included Damien Rice.

This is the Irish band's first album without Brian Crosby, who left to pursue other projects.

The Glasgow band's fifth album serves as the soundtrack to the Todd Solondz film of the same name--in theory, that is, as only a few minutes of this new material is actually used in the movie (in fact, much of the album was recorded after the movie was released). However, as with a typical soundtrack album, expect snatches of dialogue and numerous instrumental tracks interspersed with fully-developed songs.

The veteran Scottish band's first album for Sanctuary (after a long run on Matador Records) is also their first without singer/cellist Isobel Campbell. The 12 tracks here were produced by Trevor Horn.

This 2-disc set collects 25 non-LP tracks that previously appeared on the band's early singles and EPs for Jeepster.

Tony Hoffer produced this seventh studio LP for the veteran Scottish indie-pop band.

A musician since his early childhood, 20-year-old Texan Ben Kweller experienced some minor success with the band Radish in the late 1990s before embarking on a solo career highlighted by 'Sha Sha,' his debut full-length for Dave Matthews' label Ato.

The 22-year-old Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter returns with 11 new tracks produced by Ethan Johns (Kings Of Leon).

A true solo effort, this self-titled release finds the 25-year-old Kweller handling all of the instrumentation himself for the first time.

The Australian singer's sixth album features a duet with Mandy Moore.

The debut album for the North Carolina singer who wrote songs for several television shows, including "Beverly Hills, 90210" and "How I Met Your Mother."

Benjy Ferree's concept album is about the life of Peter Pan actor, Bobby Driscoll, who died broke and homeless at 31.

The second album for the American electronic artist Thomas Meluch.

The second full-length (not including a collection of EPs) from Britain's heralded Beta Band is just as eclectic as the band's first outing, combining pop and indie rock with touches of hip hop and electronica. The ten new tracks are highlighted by the singles "Squares" and "Broke." (And if the immodest album title reminds you of the Stone Roses' 'Second Coming,' don't worry--the comparisons end there.)

'Heroes' marks the third album for the ever-strange UK outfit, who self-produced the disc and handed it off to Nigel Godrich (Radiohead) for mixing.

The first solo outing for Portishead's Beth Gibbons finds her teaming up with former Talk Talk bassist Paul "Rustin' Man" Webb on a largely acoustic, melodic collection of 10 tracks.

Jim O'Rourke produced the singer-songwriter's fourth LP.

The Amsterdam-based rockers who gave us college-radio hit albums 'Palomine' and 'Lamprey' return with their fifth LP.

San Francisco's Beulah, part of the Elephant 6 collective of indie-pop bands, returns with a follow-up to their well-received 1999 effort 'When Your Heartstrings Break.'

The San Francisco group's fourth album is its darkest in mood so far, perhaps a result of several changes in band membership since 2001's 'The Coast Is Never Clear.'

The second full-length album for Stephen Wilkinson is his first on Warp records.

The band's first studio LP in 30 years features the most recent touring lineup of original members Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens with Posies Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow.