Few bands have stirred the music scene recently more than the Editors, a Birmingham, U.K.-based four-piece with their own brand of Britpop brooding. With one foot in Joy Division-esque melancholy and another firmly planted in the 80s, the Editors' sharp guitar hooks laced with singeing vocals are welcome reverberation. Their debut album, The Back Room, gets its U.S. release this month. Turning your frown upside-down is the resplendent candy-pop of fellow Brits The Boy Least Likely To. Weaving acerbic lyrics into bouncy melodies, their colorful debut The Best Party Ever lives up to its title. Sweden's The Concretes are anything but grey on their second album, In Colour. The album is drenched in lush harmonies perfect for rainy Sundays.