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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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The hooky debut from this tuneful quartet is a moving meditation on hard times, delivered with a Death Cab for Cutie light touch.

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A fiftysomething transgendered singer/songwriter, performance artist, former church organist, and classically trained harpist, Cleveland-born Baby Dee has performed with Antony and the Johnsons, David Tibet's Current 93, and the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. And for her third album, she collaborates with Will Oldham, Andrew W.K., and Matt Sweeney, among others.

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