Return To Form from last electro band standing.

Earthbound offering from hyped to the heavens duo.

Avant-rockers make shameless play for the aging Generation X market.

Grime champ steps up to the mark with career-best record.

Manics mine Richey’s last words for a return to the heart of darkness.

Dance duo up their game on multi-packed, multi-contributor return.

It’s the closing triptych of quasi-classical numbers--the aforementioned ‘Exogenesis’ sequence--that transports Muse to a place beyond parody.

Close but no rosette for the new British diva on the block.

Steady as she goes from the indie institution.

Houston, We’ve got problems

Ho-hum third record from brit chanteuse.

Former Cranberries woman gives us too much of a good thing.

A surprising afro-beat, trance-pop return from Penate.

Brendan Benson expertly assembles pop music using the manual.

Brooklyn's latest greatest deliver heartbreaking concept album.

Mournful folkie not quite as desolate as usual.

Sci-fi hi-jinks from ‘the nerdy Kraftwerk.’

Interpol frontman Paul Banks makes his solo debut with a surprisingly worthwhile side project.

Pleasant young fellows cause record reviewer to suffer acute fit of niceness.

A gorgeous, swoonsome album that electrifies and stimulates in all the right places.

Norwegian masters of melancholic synth-pop get back to basics.

All-star collective make unholy hot-and-sweaty psycho-blues racket.

Perfectly natural indie music from Scottish band.

Concept album about cricket from Divine Comedy and Pugwash frontmen hits the sweet spot.

Surprisingly laidback new dispatch from uptight country rockers.

Divine blues and roots from Americana veteran.

Patchy covers album from alt.rock veterans.