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Breezy yet downcast, Swift is Rufus Wainwright minus the operatic streak, crooning tales of disappointment and stress without making a spectacle of himself. While these elegant tunes easily could be turned into noisy epics, modest piano and guitar (plus occasional flugelhorn) suit them nicely, suggesting cabaret pop from the garage.

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Athens, Georgia's Of Montreal have practically become a one-man psych band, and Kevin Barnes' pleasantly nasal voice -- many, many multitracked versions of it -- harmonizes on nearly every track of his eighth album.

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Between drug busts and court appearances, Pete Doherty somehow found time for this likably messy five-track sequel to his quartet's 2005 debut album.

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These Canadian power-pop wizards routinely write songs with dozens of parts. Now they’ve written an album with dozens of songs. Never Hear the End of It, Sloan's eighth studio full-length, contains 30 separate tunes -- evidence of their bottomless bag of hooks, as well as a testament to endless Canadian winters, when leaving the studio ain't much of an option.