Music

Karin Dreijer's solo debut is beautifully hypnotic.

Energetic, raucous highs blend into smooth, satisfying slows in the Fiery Furnaces' eighth album, I'm Going Away.

The Flaming Lips show off their own brand of trancey, experimental, eerie goth tunes in Embryonic.

Bursting across the pond comes Florence and the Machine, and Lungs, an album as out of the box as it is echoingly beautiful.

An art-punk explosion, courtesy of Free Blood.

The Swedish singer/songwriter’s follow-up gleams with maturity.

Aussie Gabriella Cilmi is the latest imported pop/soul stylist.

Saint Dymphna is full of schizophrenic arrangements, but they are recorded crystal clear.

Joan Jett's new fave band, Girl in a Coma, wakes us up with brazen, bold rock n roll with the down home Texas integrity to back it up in Trio B. C.

Golden Triangle's first full-length, Double Jointer, holds true to a raucous, stripped-down garage-rock aesthetic similar to kindred spirits the Vivian Girls, while kicking it up a notch with a '60s girl-group vibe.