Taking Back Sunday, 'New Again' (Warner Bros.)

On the Long Island Expressway to your heart.

Three years and one new guitarist later, the princes of emo return with a fourth full-length that focuses on roaring arenas as much as on two-timing lovers.

Kasabian, 'West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum' (RCA)

Festival-roiling blokes revise glam makeover.

Teaming up with Gorillaz producer Dan "the Automator" Nakamura to hammer out their third album, these glammy Brit yobs try to revise the churning, sweatin'-to-the-'90s club beats that propelled their star-making (in the U.K.) 2004 debut. Twitchy, action-movie atmospherics still galvanize the thrust of "Fast Fuse" and lead single "Vlad the

Au Revoir Simone, 'Still Night, Still Light' (Our Secret Record Company)

Indie-pop lasses take you from sleepy to soaring.

On their second full-length, this Brooklyn trio returns with more synth-pop secrets fit to be whispered on the moon. Opener "Another Likely Story" sets the mood, dovetailing chilly lunar textures with hushed vocal harmonies to often nap-worthy effect.

Those Dancing Days, 'In Our Space Hero Suits' (Wichita)

Guileless Swedish gals wish on a soulful star.

Those Dancing Days may have swiped their name from a Led Zeppelin staple, but that’s about it. Rather than reheat Jimmy Page riffs, the young, all-female Stockholm quintet raids the sonic closets of the Smiths and ’60s girl groups instead.

Lovvers, 'Think' (Wichita)

Trashy but savvy brats hit it, quit it, spit on it.

Lovvers are four rapscallions your parents would totally hate. Specializing in no-fi haymakers, these Brits' debut EP is a flash of fly-unzipped pop that somehow crams more than 20 years of punk tricks into just 12 minutes of candied slop.

Cause Co-Motion!, 'It's Time! Singles and EPs 2005–2008' (Slumberland)

A relentless roundup of jittery art-punk miniatures.

Cause Co-Motion!

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