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As the sardonic crooner fronting Britpop vets Pulp, Jarvis Cocker fused epic, wall-of-sound pop and barbed social commentary. Happily, his killer solo debut offers more of the same.

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Brooklyn's Takka Takka seem overly casual or even apologetic at first, but there's a sneaky intensity to the minimalist urban rock'n'roll on this wonderful debut.

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Kate Havnevik knows about dark times -- she's from Norway, land of five-second summers, and once sang backup for Britney Spears (no joke). But her debut is a glowing, mostly electronic set more in time with Björk, moving swiftly from gorgeous strings that wail like sirens to Havnevik's breathy, meditative melisma.

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Four years after "Stacy's Mom" provided these power-poppers with an unexpected Top 40 hit, Traffic & Weather find them eagerly plunging into every genre imaginable, from Euro-disco (the buoyant opener "Someone to Love," a.k.a. "Stacy's Daughter") to '70s-blue-eyed pop (the Billy Joel-biting "Strapped for Cash").

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The late producer/rapper James "J Dilla" Yancey had his signature sound: thick drums, expertly placed samples, and melodic keyboards (think A Tribe Called Quest's "1nce Again"). But on Ruff Draft, those sounds aren't so warm and fuzzy.

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Did 1950s musique concréte composers ever imagine their rarified tape-art would become the next century's pop fodder?