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Try as they noisily might, this Los Angeles quartet (who have toured with acts from Nine Inch Nails to Of Montreal) can’t help but let catchy -- albeit disintegrated -- vocals push through the exhilarating racket of their second album. “In Heat” allows one loveless sliver to escape before pummeling it with a distorted kick drum.

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For Fox News and likely many Americans, Syrian pop star Omar Souleyman’s mere visage -- turbaned, sunglassed, and mustachioed -- would probably strike terror. And yet belying such surfaces, Souleyman likes to party hard, rock out, and pine for lost love.

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Releasing dungeon-dark freak-folk records since the Clinton era, Six Organs of Admittance’s Ben Chasny remains inconsolable even under a new administration. “Cover your wounds in sores,” he croaks on “Enemies Before the Light,” from his eighth album. While his guitar remains ulceric, songs such as “The Ballad of Charley Harper” stew rather than combust.

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Jona Bechtolt (formerly of the Blow) has released a clutch of indie-electro albums under the name YACHT, but on this DFA debut, he's joined by vocalist Claire L. Evans for all manner of Tom Tom Club–foolery.

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After mucking about for more than a decade, spacey Norwegian producer Rune Lindbæk teams up with London disco pranksters the Idjut Boys to create this surprisingly focused debut, and the results are nothing less than total sun-soaked beatitude.