Peaches I Feel Cream (XL)

Peaches does it again, this time producing, along with the likes of Simian Mobile Disco and Digitalism, her most pop-sounding album to date.

The Vaselines Enter the Vaselines (Sub Pop)
Includes new mixes and re-mastered versions of material, never-before-heard demos and live recordings.

Akron/Family Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free (Dead Oceans)
“The new psychedelic rock.”

Arctic Monkeys Live at The Apollo
With the Arctic Monkey’s third studio album expected later this year the band keeps fans howling for more with the concert DVD At The Apollo in Manchester, England.

St. Vincent Actor (4AD)
Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Indie Pop
The follow-up to St. Vincent’s (Annie Clark’s) first album Marry Me (2007) features eleven new songs, all written and arranged by Clark. The arrangements are more masterful, the songwriting grander, the performances ever more confident and inspired.

Mastodon Crack The Skye
Mastodon’s fourth studio album, Crack The Skye, is a conceptual piece in the same vein as the band’s previous releases. It mines subject matter from czarist Russia and astral travel to out-of-body experiences and Stephen Hawking’s theories on wormholes for a heavy aural assault.

Various Artists Waxploitation Presents: Causes 2
Profits from this release will go to Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres, Human Rights Watch, and Oxfam America. Album includes rare and exclusive songs from Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Decemberists, Devendra Banhart, Diplo, Federico Aubele, Gnarls Barkley, LCD Soundsystem, My Morning Jacket and More.

Fischerspooner Entertainment (FS Studios) (Pageant, May 14)
Neo-Electro, Alternative Dance, Club/Dance

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band Outer South (Merge)
Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Indie Rock

Source: InSound