St. Paul & the Broken Bones/Valley Queen

For their latest album, Young Sick Camellia, St. Paul and the Broken Bones decided to expand their sound even more and recruited R&B/hip-hop/dance producer Jack Splash to turn the knobs in the studio. As a result, woozy horns mix with sampled vocals on "Convex" and synthesizer flourishes and spirited horns drive "Apollo," a track that sounds like it could be on the soundtrack to a blaxploitation flick. For the funky throwback number “Gotitbad,” the band went back to the Sea of Noise sessions and dug up an unfinished song that it then completed. Expect these songs to translate well to the stage too. The band always delivers a killer live show. (Niesel)