This week in music listening, featuring patent-pending two-word reviews:

Fountains of Wayne: Utopia Parkway - harmonious pop
The Jeff Healey Band: Get Me Some - soulful blues
Grandaddy: Signal to Snow Ratio - fried melodies
Jim Carroll: Pools of Mercury - moody weirdness
Ministry: Filth Pig - metallic riffage
Mercury Rev: The Secret Migration - Lips lite
Trixter: Hear! - schlocky glam
Genesis: From Genesis to Revelation - weak start
Jaill: Traps - psych pop
Metric: Synthetica - coldy effective
The Hives: Lex Hives - familiar rockers
Parliament: The Clones of Dr Funkenstein - funky funk