Like the music of Smoke & Mirrors, the thematic material on the 12-song album is perhaps all too familiar for Lifehouse: romantic harmony and dissonance, inner healing and growth and, depending on how you interpret lyrics, perhaps modern worship.

For better or worse, the first thing you notice when you listen to Josh Turner's fourth studio album, Haywire, isn't its particular style, but, rather, that one love song continually follows another with expressions of romance that are short on lyrical depth.

While Abandon Kansas amassed so much attention locally that its sound earned the attention of Gotee Records, this debut EP maintains its artful, indie rock roots—yet creatively manages to have mainstream appeal in the process.

On this follow-up to the triumphant Portable Sounds, TobyMac once again delivers his remarkably consistent rap/hip-hop/alternative rock aura—but with some extra juice and more attitude than ever before.

When you combine the band's penchant for innovative videos with its reputation for extremely generic, albeit fun and danceable, rock songs, it's no wonder OK Go has something to prove with its new album, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky.

For a band quoted as perfectly content "being the underdog" for their entire career if "that meant surprising the critics and naysayers every time we scored a touchdown," Seabird must have ignored their recent mainstream achievements.