This week: The members of Coldplay get help from Brian Eno for their fourth album; David Berman plays raconteur again, on the first Silver Jews album since 2005's Tanglewood Numbers; and Clem Snide frontman Eef Barzelay releases his second full-length, as do Shara Worden's My Brightest Diamond, the oddballs from Baltimore's Ponytail, and -- finally -- the inimitable indie-rock collective called Wolf Parade.
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2 Pistols: Death Before Dishonor (Republic)
Adem: Takes (Domino)
Alex Dolby: Pisko Garden (Global Underground)
Atlas Sound: Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot [B (4AD)
Blood Raw: My Life the True Testimony (Def Jam)
Bowerbirds: Hymns for a Dark Horse [Bonus Tracks] (Dead Oceans)
Clouds: We Are Above You (Hydrahead)
Coldplay: Viva La Vida (Capitol)
D-Boyz: Life of a D-Boyz (404)
From Autumn to Ashes: Live at Looney Tunes (Vagrant)
Geto Boys: Best of the Geto Boys (Asylum)
GridLink: Amber Gray (Hydrahead)
Head Like a Kite: There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere (Mush)
The Impossible Shapes: Impossible Shapes (Secretly Canadian)
Katy Perry: One of the Boys (Capitol)
King Khan and the Shrines: Supreme Genius of King Khan and The Shrines (Vice)
Liquid Liquid: Liquid Liquid (Gr2 Classics)
Man Without Wax: Anchor (Eyeball)
Mansions: Mansions (Doghouse)
My Brightest Diamond: Thousand Shark's Teeth (Asthmatic Kitty)
NOMO: Ghost Rock (Ubiquity)
The Notwist: Devil, You + Me (Domino)
The Offspring: Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (Sony)
Ponytail: Ice Cream Spiritual! (We Are Free)
Sebadoh: Bubble and Scrape [Expanded] (Domino)
Sian Alice Group: Dusk Line EP (The Social Registry)
Silver Jews: Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
Stars Like Fleas: Ken Burns Effect (Hometapes)
Tanya Morgan: Bridge (Interdependent)
Tilly and the Wall: O (Team Love)
Twine: Violets (Ghostly International)
Valient Thorr: Immortalizer (Volcom)
War for War: Kovy Odjinud
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