 | When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold by Atmosphere
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.78 Indie rappers continue their critical streak with an album that refuses to gloss over the worse aspects of life suburban and urban, along with some typically excellent beats.
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 | Electric Arguments by The Fireman and Youth Paul McCartney
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.33 Sir Paul makes himself relevant again with the Fireman moniker, displaying serious good taste amidst a variety of blues rock, trippy psychedelia, and folksy pop.
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 | Feed the Animals by Girl Talk
Mash-up god Greg Gillis latest epic is a step backward in staying power and accessibility from Night Ripper, but FtA packs enough holy crap moments to make you forget about any other DJs for the next year or so.
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 | Acid Tongue by Jenny Lewis
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.54 Rilo Kiley songstress and indie rocks favorite redhead releases her second studio album of country-ish Southern California sunny pop-rock with some of her best lyrical and vocal work.
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 | Hold on Now, Youngster... by Los Campesinos!
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.00 Welsh indie-poppers create a sugar rush of hyperactive, clanging, chaotic music that is about as scattershot as you can get, but what it lacks in cohesiveness it makes up for with sheer exuberant energy.
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 | Hard Candy by Madonna
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $3.12 Pop matriarch gives aging gracefully the middle finger and triumphs with an album of sugary synths, bombastic beats and, of course, some dirty lyrics.
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 | Re-Arrange Us by Mates of State
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $2.93 Indie-pop husband/wife duo fail to shed the cutesy label on their latest offering of melodic, harmony-driven hooks, but their developing lyrical maturity and flawless production establish them as one of the genres consistently entertaining acts.
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 | Oracular Spectacular by MGMT
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.49 Brooklyn electro-worshippers paint the world a psychedelic shade of tie-dye on their Flaming Lips-esque, buzzworthy debut.
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 | Pretty. Odd. by Panic at the Disco
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $0.99 Would-be Fall Out Boy heirs turn from cringe-inducing emo theatrics to an album that embraces the best of 60s pop and sharp, sensible guitar rock.
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 | April by Sun Kil Moon
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.65 Singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek writes metaphor-heavy, descriptive lyrical works that could be converted straight to poetry, and this latest is the kind of soft-spoken, reflective folk fans have come to expect from him.
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