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Anthemic Scots the Twilight Sad walk a fine line between drippy sentimentality and rough-edged realism. The majestic "And She Would Darken the Memory" almost overindulges, but frontman James Graham cuts through the cathedral echo with a hoarse brogue. The treacly guitar on "Cold Days From the Birdhouse" is punctured to perfection by a single, nagging piano note.

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For Patrick Wolf, time's arrow has always flown backward. As a precocious 11-year-old, he tinkered with instruments and recorded music that demonstrated an uncanny attention to soundcraft but found him weary and numb, already disaffected with virtually everything except the intricacies of noise.

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When everyone's favorite sk8er grrrl was last heard from, she'd not only delivered a surprisingly mature second album, 2004's Under My Skin, but had noticeably refined her public image. The striped ties and Dickies shorts?

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs fans who worried that last year's Show Your Bones would be the turbulent New York outfit's premature farewell should bend an anxious ear toward Noisettes, an arty U.K. garage trio with a similar disinclination toward sonic tidiness and a fashion-plate singer who's determined to rule the stage with a sparkly gloved fist.

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Coming up through the same scene as other Québécois notables like the Stills, the Dears, and the Arcade Fire (some of whose members were onetime roommates of singer/guitarist Elizabeth Powell), Land of Talk offers more proof that Montreal endures as the epicenter of indie rock.

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For the follow up to their promising 2003 debut, Spirit in Stone, this indie-rap duo reinvent themselves as ghetto superheroes, rechristen their Portland, Oregon hometown "Razorblade City," and invite George Clinton, Fishbone, dead pres, Smif N Wussun, and others to join the fun.