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DJ/producer Andrew Butler mixes the poetic Apollonian aspects of queer culture with the Dionysian party represented by left-field disco and hypnotic early house, and crafts an unsettling masterpiece that yearns and churns and ultimately pulls the rug from under your dancing feet.

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Even on her sixth studio album, Alanis Morissette’s lyrics still cause you to pause. Did she just sing, “How you land in the soft as you fortify”? Or “Core, born into form, starts in our living room”?

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Entrancing chamber-pop songstress Joan Wasser easily could get by on just voice and piano, but for her second album, she flexes more ambition, and the results are rewarding.

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On their sixth album, these ever-evolving German indie rockers stick with the electronic-tinged direction of 2003’s Neon Golden, but with a little less emotional heft.

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A lot of indie-pop bands catch flak for making sickly-sweet songs, but Islands have a different vice: the sweetly sick. Since the early 2000s, Nick Thorburn has been penning morbidly sunny-sounding anthems -- first as a member of the brilliant broken-pop trio The Unicorns, then on Islands’ apocalyptically catchy 2006 debut, Return to the Sea.