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In the 11 years since releasing the patchy Psycho Circus, Kiss have marketed kaskets, opened a koffeeshop, and released krappy solo albums, apparently on a mission to make everyone but diehards forget that, for a few LPs running, they were the greatest rock band of the '70s.

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Five years have passed since we last heard from Norwegian shrinking violets Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe. They're still extremely sad, but now they're showing it in different ways. In addition to well-turned folk melodies and sparkling finger-picking (check "24-25"), the duo now drape their sparse melancholy in gentle Brazilian rhythms ("Me in You") and Gypsy jazz ("Boat Behind").

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"African Velvet"? "Eat My Beat"?

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The Son Volt and Death Cab for Cutie frontmen (respectively) go spare on this tribute to Jack Kerouac's 1962 novel Big Sur, wedding text from the chronicle of a writer's alcoholic breakdown to simple melodies and instrumentation.

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This Detroit band has yet to match the goofy disco-metal glory of 2003's Fire (you'll recall "Danger!

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On his self-titled 2008 debut, singer-songwriter Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson sounded like it was all he could do to hold himself together long enough to sing about falling apart. Though that album's postaddiction, confessional howl was one of the year's most darkly magnetic listens, it was also cause for artistic concern.