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

Quasi: When the Going Gets Dark - mixed variety
Rocket From The Crypt: Paint As a Fragrance - quality introduction
Cabaret Voltaire: The Crackdown - dance variant
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Orange - flavorful blues
Mudhoney: Under a Billion Suns - sludgy grunge
Robert Pollard: We All Got Out of the Army - more meandering
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments: No Old Guy Lo-Fi Cry - no go
Jon Brion: Paranorman Soundtrack - playful fun
It Was Made in Northeast Ohio Compilation - time capsule
Trixter: Trixter - catchy pop-metal
Juliana Hatfield: How to Walk Away - mature pop
Nuggets of American College Rock 1987: interesting archive
Sloan: Pretty Together - varied styles
The Twilight Singers: Live in Amsterdam, 11-28-06 - ripping live