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Introspection and noise are infrequent bedfellows, but they get fully tangled up in the work of singer/songwriter Damien Rice.

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When Switchfoot singer/guitarist Jon Foreman cries, "I don't know that I ever felt so alive" on the band's sixth album, he's probably describing a new peak in his relationship with Jesus, since that's usually what Christian bands like Switchfoot sing about. But Foreman could also be referring to the San Diego outfit's sound: Oh!

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As Belle and Sebastian's original belle, singer/cellist Isobel Campbell helped transform the pedestrian lives of her bandmates -- and, by extension, fans -- into something more magical. Solo, her music has grown less tethered to the present, and Milkwhite Sheets is the sound of her swan dive into the cosmos of psychedelic folk that's so widespread these days.

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This confluence of shining indie-rock lights -- Destroyer's Dan Bejar, Wolf Parade's Spencer Krug, and Frog Eyes' Carey Mercer -- produces a sound that's equal parts inexplicable and meandering.

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This sophomore disc from the Senegal-born/Atlanta-based singer, songwriter, and producer works like a backpacker's version of a tough-guy hip-hop album.

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Though its title suggests a bunch of extras and alternate takes, More Fish is anything but an only-for-Ghostface-nerds toss-off. Released just nine months after the splatter-paint beauty of Fishscale, Tony Starks' second album of 2006 is as lean and compact as its predecessor was expansive.