Air Love 2 (Astralwerks)
For part of Air’s last tour, the French electronic duo played shows with only drummer Joey Waronker as support, forcing them to strip its songs down to their essences. They stick with that lineup on Love 2, which marks the first time they have produced their own album.

Exene Cervenka Somewhere Gone (Bloodshot)
Somewhere Gone, Exene’s firs tsolo album since 1991, is a sometimes dreamy but always intimate passage through folk and country. Invoking other artists who travel easily between the worlds of words and music like Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith.

Built to Spill There Is No Enemy (Warner Bros.)
Indie rock stalwarts going back to the early ’90s, Built to Spill have pleased fans for years, and their first album in three years, There Is No Enemy, occupies much the same territory as 2006’s You in Reverse.

Tokio Hotel Humanoid (Cherry Tree/Interscope)
Eyeliner-heavy, German teen pop quartet Tokio Hotel’s third (and second English language) full-length album is a significantly louder and considerably darker affair than their previous outings.

Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy (Matador)
Don’t judge a book by its cover. Kurt Vile’s long-haired hippie appearance may suggest West Coast roots — even though he’s actually a Philadelphian — but his sound comes straight out of the underbelly of the Big Apple.

Hockey Mind Chaos (Capitol)
The highly anticipated debut album from Portland dance-punkers Hockey: Mind Chaos. Rip-roaring New Wave that picks up where The Rapture left off.

Black Hollies Softly Towards the Light (Ernest Jenning)
Garage Rock Revival, Neo-Psychedelia
The Clientele Bonfires on the Heath (Merge)
Indie Pop
Gossip Music for Men (Columbia)
Indie Rock, Garage Punk, Lo-Fi
Headlights Wildlife (Polyvinyl)
Indie Pop
Eugene Mirman God Is a Twelve Year Old Boy with Asperger’s (Sub Pop)
Standup Comedy
The Raveonettes In and Out of Control (Vice)
Noise Pop, Indie Rock
Boys Noize Power
Techno
No Age Losing Feeling
Four song EP from Southern Californians No Age.

Sources: InSound, AMG