I gave you a flower because foxes travel light

Another Monday, another ace Canadian talent who impressively makes a virtue of verbosity. Having freed himself from the indie-Bowie tag, Dan Bejar's songs have gotten more inscrutable and also more inviting. Trouble in Dreams is succulently bombastic, overloaded with ideas and vocal affectation, and just the right thing for a night drive back into the city after the long day in greener places. This is probably not the album's best track, but like any good lead-off man, it sets the stage for a big inning.

Destroyer - Blue Flower/Blue Flame

Maps won't show us where we're going

Tell it, indie kids! Tell it all day long, with your shower-trained voices and your power-pop gallop. There are some days when you're perfectly content with catchy, cryptically literate tunes from the New Pornographers extended family of pop groups. Today is one such day.

Immaculate Machine - Dear Confessor