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Califone's music is like a half-remembered dream or a mysterious, plotless film, veering from pleasantly womb-like to inexplicably creepy.

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With his eighth album as Portastatic, Mac McCaughan still has his feet on the ground -- befitting what began as a subdued side project to his now-shuttered main band Superchunk.

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Graham Coxon's early solo work was built mostly around tuneless self-pity and amplifier flatulence, so it was a welcome surprise when 2004's Happiness in Magazines featured actual pop songs. The guitarist's sixth album is his most accessible yet, crammed with melodic Brit punk played at maximum speed.

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The second album from this Maryland indie-rock foursome comfortably seeps into your consciousness -- it's rich in melody and rife with dreamy natural/Biblical imagery ("Jesus will dance while we drink his wine"; "I'll shed a feather for the Lord").

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For nearly a decade, Joe Pernice's poetic elegies have deftly blurred the line between soft-rock melancholia and murder-suicide notes.

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The Hold Steady's Craig Finn infuses his windy tales of youthful debauchery with a mixture of detective-fiction luridness and first-club-show romanticism.