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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 Texas duo have churned out spectral, psych-infused folk since 1991, when Tom and Christina Carter first trolled through the Anthology of American Folk Music and began perverting and reinventing classic American memes. Likeness features lyrics plucked from the public domain, layered over heavily manipulated guitars.

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Sigur Rós are hardly renowned for marketing savvy -- the title of their third album was a pair of parentheses, thus rendering it only slightly less pronounceable than their 1999 breakthrough, Ágætis Byrjun. But this double album of live and unreleased songs feels cosmically overdue.

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Grizzly Bear have a penchant for cannibalizing their own work, following 2004's debut, Horn of Plenty, with a remix record that enlisted like-minded peers to reimagine the quartet's signature space folk. Friend is a collection of collaborations, covers, and remixes, featuring Band of Horses, CSS, Deerhunter's Bradford Cox, and others.

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Swedish-born songwriter Jens Lekman has a penchant for grand pronouncements, and his pop opuses are rife with strings, choirs, and samples (everything from Renaldo & the Loaf's "Hambu Hodo" to his own childhood squeaks).