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When your first album sells four million copies, you're bound to try to play out a few musical fantasies with the follow-up, and these modern-pop lotharios are now dabbling in everything from nouveau disco to sleazy funk to big-band balladry.

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Having tripled their name to avoid confusion with the Philadelphia-based Brakes, this English band open their second album with a baptism-as-fight scene ("Hold Me in the River"). The pub stompers are as rowdy as ever, but they're balanced here by laid-back ruminations on romance.

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After their minor 2003 hit "I Met a Girl" and a prolonged hiatus, this hooky Massachusetts band returns with its fourth and most rousing collection of heart-on-sleeve anthems.

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This loose, inspired collaboration between German electronic duo Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma of Mouse on Mars and terminally cranky Mancunian Mark E. Smith should have been the new Fall album.

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"My album's crazy," boasts Kasseem Dean, a.k.a. Swizz Beatz, throughout his second solo record. While other rap/R&B producers turned performers have been disappointingly uneven lately -- Timbaland, WTF?