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)