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For Ya-Ka-May, New Orleans brass-funk combo Galactic recruit a cross section of local luminaries, from the great R&B singer Allen Toussaint to bounce rapper Sissy Nobby, for a dip into the city's dark waters of sin and salvation. Odes to liquor and cocaine (Josh Cohen and Scully's "Liquor Pang") ru
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With one tune called "Girl I Love You" and another on which Damon Albarn wonders, "Do you love me?", Massive Attack's first studio album since 2003 might appear to herald a move away from the English trip-hop outfit's future-shock fatalism. Fear not, though: In opener "Pray for Rain," TV on the Rad
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Like sister Shelby Lynne (and husband Steve Earle), Moorer takes an encouragingly wide view of roots music; she's made records over the past decade-plus that have honored Nina Simone and the Troggs as much as Patsy Cline and Townes Van Zandt. This follow-up to 2008's all-covers album Mockingbird fi
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Hendrik Weber's first two albums of luminous minimal house as Pantha du Prince -- 2004's Diamond Daze and 2007's This Bliss -- remain some of the most crystalline electronic music of the new century. On his third full-length, Weber keeps the beats crisp but more varied, conjuring steamy pipes (on "
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Often gorgeous and never soothing, the damaged pop on Phantogram's mesmerizing debut is pure nightmare fuel. Meshing grubby synths, shimmering guitars, and fractured funk beats, upstate New Yorkers Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter suggest an '80s new-wave band gone horribly wrong, their uneasy voices
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Artist: Hot ChipReview: The best song on this U.K. electro-pop group's 2008 discMade in the Dark was an ode to disco abandon called "Readyfor the Floor." The best one here is a marriage proposal called"One Life Stand." Hot Chip's excellent fourth record shows howcompatible those sentiments can be.
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Artist: Gil Scott-HeronReview: "Standing in the ruins of another black man's life," intones GilScott-Heron over muted electro beats on "Your Soul and Mine," hisbaritone ravaged but unmistakable. The lines must resonate for theveteran singer, activist and proto-rapper, who has spent the pastdecade i
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Artist: YeasayerReview: Like their Brooklyn neighbors Dirty Projectors and AnimalCollective, Yeasayer are pioneers of a scene that refuses to choosebetween a sense of experimental adventure and pure pop pleasure.It's a balance they're perfecting as they grow older: On their 2007debut, they were fre
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