Flight of the Conchords I Told You I Was Freaky (Sub Pop)

After a glorious first season that earned the HBO show six Emmy nominations, the Kiwis’ second run doesn’t quite pack the same comedic punch. Some would say it was because the premise has lost its luster, but it was mostly because the music just isn’t as strong.

Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard One Fast Move or I’m Gone (Atlantic/F-Stop)
Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie release a collection of songs created for a documentary film about the fabled Beat-era writer Jack Kerouac and his novel Big Sur.

Florence and the Machine Lungs (Island)
Precocious Brit Florence Welch creates a musically mature and emotionally mesmerizing album.

Sufjan Stevens The BQE (Asthmatic Kitty)
A “symphonic and cinematic exploration of New York City’s infamous Brooklyn-Queens Expressway” that includes a self-made Super 8 mm film, a full orchestra, and a small army of hula hoopers performing live in front of a sold-out Brooklyn Academy of Music.

El Perro del Mar Love Is Not Pop (Licking Finger) (At Gargoyle, Nov. 13)
A conscious step away from 2008’s From The Valley to the Stars. The mindset is darker and the sound-scape mysteriously groovy. Thus it is not by chance Sarah Assbring chose to work together with Rasmus Hagg, the other half of the Swedish duo Studio, as a co-producer.

Atlas Sound Logos (Kranky)
Post-Rock/Experimental, Experimental Rock, Indie Rock
Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School of Medicine The Audacity of Hype (Alternative Tentacles)
American Underground, Hardcore Punk
Do Make Say Think Other Truths (Constellation)
Post-Rock/Experimental, Indie Rock
Electric Six Kill (Metropolis)
Dance-Rock, Indie Rock
F*** Buttons Tarot Sport (ATP)
Indie Electronic, Post-Rock/Experimental, Experimental
Maps Turning the Mind (Mute)
Indie Electronic
Elvis Perkins in Dearland The Doomsday (XL) (At Gargoyle, Nov. 20)
Americana, Folk

Source: AMG