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"All of my people think I look strange," confesses singer/songwriter/ guitarist/producer Jerry DeCicca with an inscrutable weariness, on "New Face," one of 12 unhurried folk ballads on this Ohio band's second album.

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With scene-sibling band Times New Viking leaving underground punk outpost Siltbreeze for Matador, this anarchic Columbus, Ohio trio advances as the label's standard-bearers. Scruffy pop hooks stay buried in guitar shit and junk-shop electronic blurts. Imagine the Fall as classic rockers with these doofs as their belligerent, sprawling tribute band.

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Having lost one member and added three, this Massachusetts-based band features six players and eight songs of chunky, ear-warping rock'n'roll on their sixth album. Throughout the solo-fueled "East to West," frontwoman Sandra Barrett hollers and wails while her bandmates' caustic guitars (all three!) drill millions of tiny holes in your speakers.

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This Kansas City MC raps with the public-radio enunciation and funk-free flow of Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda; and if Lethal dug guitars more, many of the cuts on his debut could pass for outtakes from Shinoda's Fort Minor project.