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Ab-Soul Control System

Secret best Black Hippy skips ScHoolBoy's machismo, matches Kendrick's bug-out charm, channels P.K. 8/10

Le Stelle A Voyage Adrift

Sputtering like an 8-bit Meshuggah, these Italian sludgers are savage enough to quell prog-dorkchills. 8/10

Cheap Time Wallpaper Music

Tennessee glam-snots (and Jay Reatard faves) outgrow their ilk, unload a thorny, at times mesmeric mess. 7/10

Slugabed Time Team

Twenty-one-year-old beat genius doses UK dubstep with Dilla hop and Left Coast soul; makes Flying Lotus nervou 7/10

Philm Harmonic

Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo attempts Deftones, Unsane, Faith No More alt-metal; king of duggadugga just too f 5/10

Black Tambourine OneTwoThreeFour EP

Reunited, rust-free shoegazers fondly cover four gentler Ramones classics, spark a soothing uproar. 8/10

Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix

The satire is worn thin in the Rock of Ages era, but duo still slays the Darkness' harmonies. 6/10

Session Victim The Haunted House of House

German ghostbusters chase specters of Chicago, Detroit, New York: It's a spiritual thing. 7/10

Guantanamo Baywatch Chest Crawl

Buncha Dickhead Dales from PDX make campy surf-t(h)rash. Even mix of bad breaks & sweet swells. 6/10

Bloody Knives Blood

Boo Radleys plus angst, Atari Teenage Riot minus Teutonic anger...You got your punk in my shoegaze! 7/10

Squarepusher Ufabulum

Funky as he wants to be — EPCOT-rocking splatterjazz, rainbow-tasting ravewave, Inspector Gadget rington 7/10

Iamsu! Kilt

Scene-stealing rapper on E-40's "Function" slips Bay Area slaps some muscle relaxers, then jerks them back to 8/10

Hot Water Music Exister

After an eight-year hiatus, the post-hardcore heroes didn't outgrow anxiety, they gave it hooks. 7/10

AC Slater Sidewinder

Soundtrack to Skrillex-era monster truck rally: Bass gears grind; engines cough out electro, grime, weed smoke 6/10

The Cribs In the Belly of the Brazen Bull

Sans Johnny Marr, the Jarman brothers dip their sturdy Brit-rock hooks in acidic fuzz. 6/10

Chappo Moonwater

New York band nods to classic indie (Pixies, a dash of Grandaddy); with just enough psych-swirls to stay groov 6/10

Garbage Not Your Kind of People

"We are extraordinary people," Shirley Manson sings on the first Garbage album since 2005, and in an era of ev 8/10

Cornershop Urban Turban - The Singhles Club

Tjinder Singh continues his smile-inducing polyglot-pop renaissance, aided by a bevy of chic guest vocalists. 8/10

Turing Machine What is the Meaning of What

What Is the Meaning of What/8: Final LP with sticksman (R.I.P.) is adrenaline-soaked, DFA-stacked and kraut-ps 8/10

Heavy Blanket Heavy Blanket

Dinosaur Jr.'s J Masics re-confirms his guitar-hero status on this instrumental, psych-rock freakout. 8/10

Nothing But Noise Not Bleeding Red

Front 242 leader's Tangerine Dreamy vintage synth worship; deeper than Drokk, warmer than Emeralds. 7/10

Dee Snider Dee Does Broadway

A Rock of Ages inverse: Mr. Twisted Sister awkwardly swaps devil horns for heavy metal jazz hands. 4/10

Light Asylum Light Asylum

Brooklyn darkwave duo fuel electro-goth rage with industrial beat-machines and amorphous Grace Jones swag. 8/10

KTL V

Stephen O)))'Malley and Pita turn down amps, answer the phantom carriage's call via slow-sailing strings, pene 8/10

Jubilee Pop It!

Roaming ravers visit Miami Bass' hometown, paint the town red with unruly ghetto breaks, riotous electro, cowb 8/10

Heavy Cream Super Treatment

Nashvillian punks' Ty Segall-produced latest is a candied torrent of delicious, Runaways-wrung slop. 7/10

John Fullbright From the Ground Up

Big drawl + bigger topics = NPR&Western broadsides. Even sings from "Gawd"'s POV! Chill, young'un. 6/10

Beach House Bloom

The most important instrument on Beach House's fourth album is the drum kit. 8/10

Meek Mill Dreamchasers 2

Meek's manic sincerity and drive deferred by unbecoming guest spots (Mac Miller?) and total lack of hooks. 7/10

Nick Waterhouse Time's All Gone

Bootleg Buddy Holly makes badass neo-greaser San Fran soul. Seeps saxophones and sexual suppression. 8/10

PS I Love You Death Dreams

Guitar-and-drums duo yelp through endearingly awkward garage-indie, flex muscles with finger-tapped solos. 7/10

I:Cube MegaMix

'French Touch' pioneer drops '90s-inspired set that kicks like a mule, then blows you a kiss. 8/10

Led Er Est The Diver

Dusty analog synths and lo-fi electronics act as fuzzy earmuffs inside a dark, coldwave industrial wind tunnel 7/10

Horseback Half Blood

A Rhys Chatham guitar army eaten by black metal wolves; victorious Fuck Button drones burned at the stake. 8/10

OFF! OFF!

Cross-generational punk lifers offer 16 tracks in 16 minutes: hardcore revisionism that's short on fresh ideas 7/10

Father John Misty Fear Fun

Former Fleet Fox continues strong solo run with symphonic folk odyssey. Every vocal harmony shimmers. 7/10