Best Album: Got a Girl

Got a Girl: I Love You, But I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now

This week’s best album

– Producer extraordinaire Dan the Automator and actress/singer Mary Elizabeth Winstead team up as Got a Girl, a beat-based take on 1960s French pop.

Honorable mentions

Alvvays: s/t (Polyvinyl)

The Black Angels: Clear Lake Forest (Blue Horizon)

Common: Nobody’s Smiling (Def Jam / Artium)

The Raveonettes: Pe’ahi (Beat Dies)

La Roux: Trouble in Paradise (Interscope / Polydor)