The Weepies/Lucy Wainwright Roche

After five years of quiet from one of indie rock’s already-very-quiet bands, The Weepies released their new album, Sirens, this past spring. Here, singer-songwriter spouses Steve Tannen and Deb Talan are still deftly capable of spinning emotional yarns around catchy pop hooks and melodies. The sound is a bit bigger here, with percussion layers becoming a more prominent feature -- on top of the band’s always-enticing guitar work. Looking back a bit, another delicious dose in the band’s canon arises in 2006’s Say I Am You, a distillation of the warm highs and lows in love and life and an album whose tracks picked up play on some really great picaresque TV shows over the years (Scrubs, How I Met Your Mother, etc.). (Sandy)