For all the divergent styles and blatant hero-worshipping to be found on High Society, the group never sounds derivative or misguided -- a rare feat, proving that despite numerous comparisons, Enon have indeed carved out their own fractured and unique musical identity.

An excellent and memorable album.

Stephen Malkmus' solo debut is as mature, focused, and charming as it is rambunctious.

This time around, the man actually sounds excited to be making music.

An album riddled with unbreathable energy and high-strung despair.

It is (Smog)'s most colorful, vigorous, and alive album to date.

A charged and melodic album full of anthemic choruses, hummable verses, and passionate rock.

A vibrant, engrossing album by a seasoned band whose best years are still ahead of them.

Devoid of obvious weak points, Lost In Space sounds sad without ever becoming schmaltzy.

AmAnSet gives us dance music that's perfect to sit down and listen to, opening an imaginary club in our heads.

Radian boasts a sound far deeper and richer than most of their push-button contemporaries.

Key ultimately demands direct attention; while some songs seem to call out for the openness of a long car ride, this is a headphone masterpiece.

A cracked masterpiece.... it rewards your attention with dreamy, surreal vistas, skewed poetry and flights of unadulterated musical madness.

The beauty in all this melancholy is that, interspersed among the reverberating guitars and mournful keyboards, you'll find an assortment of cheerful instruments, such as the accordion, that help to create an underlying tone of optimism.

As with anything, some listeners will already have sickened of seeing the words "dance" and "punk" next to one another -- but for the rest of us, this is an excellent new chapter in one of the young century's most interesting musical trends.

The album sounds mature, weathered, tired and occasionally almost weary, but is far to dynamic to ever seem truly lethargic.

Their most musically adventurous yet artistically grounded record to date.

It's a perfect summer record.

Underneath all those shiny, shiny flourishes and moddish overtones, though, is some seriously smart, witty music, for the most part.

It's probably a bolder, more daring record than it will ever be given credit for, as it's rare that an artist recognizes that she does some things very well, and then does them.

Most of Loewenstein's work here simply puts a happier spin on Sub Pop's raw, rough-edged rock formula -- the sort of thing Kurt Cobain might have written if Prozac was free.

Although much of the album sounds amateurish, and sometimes painfully so, the Unicorns regularly remind us that it's all shtick.

Admittedly, not all of Cloud's most ambitious tracks work ou.... But in the end, it's Garnier's ambition, combined with his talent and professionalism, that make this an album worth seeking out.

If you take your pleasure from the sheer palpability of the music -- the way it walks icy fingers up and down your spine, and paints pictures in the air, so real you could step into them -- Blacklisted will enjoy a long, happy stay in your CD player.

Les Savy Fav is quite conscious of what you want, and they keenly deliver the goods on their latest batch of solid tunes.

It took ages to arrive, but LCD Soundsystem isn't the album you've been waiting for -- it's far, far better.

Though it's fair to question their sense of tradition, they succeed where other blues-aping artists, like Gomez and Arnold, have failed, because they're not wholly indebted to the customs of the blues. They've merely co-opted its grisly spirit and transformed it into something unique.

The result is so refreshing original, it not only cements Gold Chains' position as one of today's best and brightest indie-tech gurus; it also says, coolly and effortlessly, that genre boundaries are "no big thang".