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"Never let the bastards bite back," Pink Mountaintops frontman Stephen McBean claims on the rustic singalong "Holiday." But dude has no problem biting first.

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Annie Clark is an indie dream girl: a Margaret Keane painting come to life, with a voice seemingly crafted of caramelized sugar. But her second album as St. Vincent goes even further than her debut in revealing a vicious inner life.

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Despite losing founding member Ryan Vanderhoof to a Buddhist center in the Midwest, this Brooklyn trio continues to evolve. Here they expand their primarily folky sound, importing rhythms from abroad and morphing electronic ticks and stutters into a field of chirping crickets ("Creatures").

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PJ Harvey's music can be frightening, not because of who she is, but who she becomes. For their second album as a duo, longtime collaborator John Parish gave Harvey finished songs to write lyrics for, and his sometimes brittle, sometimes thundering guitar work provides the skeleton for an array of fleshly narrators.

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This Canadian indie supergroup presumably came together over its members' common traits of workaholism and quirky vocals. Though Swan Lake count Wolf Parade, Frog Eyes, and the New Pornographers among their many other projects, Enemy Mine doesn't get the songwriting dregs.

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Most of Handsome Furs' promo photos show members Alexei Perry and Dan Boeckner (also of Wolf Parade) crawling all over each other. But they're old-fashioned romantics -- married, in love, and fighting to stay that way.