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Drums. Pure, awesome drums. They swarm this album, spiky and syncopated Latin-style, rockin' and krautin' and Bollywoodin', smacking the inside of your speakers, urging you to sway hips and thwack steering wheels.

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Not at all a sequel to the otherworldly 1981 sample-funk landmark My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, the second duo record by the former Talking Heads frontman and his experimental super-producer partner is a thoughtful singer-songwriter exercise, with Byrne's keening whine shorn of its percussive sharpness and propped high atop Eno's plush upholstery.

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Three tracks into what may be 2008's most insane album, Kevin Barnes drops his multiple-entendre manifesto: "We can do it softcore if you want / But you should know I take it both ways." Forget the porno wink and the lyric becomes an instructional hint for engaging with Skeletal Lamping's confetti-explosion mess.

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In those rare, recent moments when he wasn't digging up dusty "special disco versions" to DJ, LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy somehow discovered a Berlin dance label that hadn't stirred up blogosphere buzz.

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A band whose third album contains echoes of cheese classics like "Kokomo," "Eye of the Tiger," and "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" is hilariously self-aware or hilariously clueless, right?

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Bolstering his eclectic, avant-pop provocations with cinematic compositional prowess, electronic music's own Serge Gainsbourg designs a neo-R&B concept album about sex.