Austin, Texas’ indie rock icons Spoon return this week with their new album Transference, the follow-up to Britt Daniel and company’s critically acclaimed Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. “Transference is Spoon’s seventh album and, at times, sounds like their best,” Rolling Stone’s David Fricke writes in his three-and-a-half star review. Songs like “The Mystery Zone,” “Got Nuffin” and the barroom rock of “Written in Reverse” are new highlights in Spoon’s 17-year career, however Fricke writes that album suffers from some inconsistency and misfired genre experiments that didn’t plague the band’s Ga. Still, Fricke writes “the bulk of Transference is a provocative blast, a union of Daniel’s art-pop ambitions and his band’s total-pop strengths.

Eels, the prolific musical project of mastermind Mark Everett, release their new album End Times this week. Five years after his divorce in 2005, End Times represents Everett musically coming to terms with the breakup of his marriage, Rolling Stone contributing editor Christian Hoard writes in his three-star review of the album. “[Everett] is a horribly strung-out love junkie on End Times, pining for his ex, talking to the bird on his porch and thinking the crazy homeless prophet on the corner is starting to make sense. Everett keeps these ballads and rockers short, spare and pretty.”

Other new reviews: Lil Wayne’s Rebirth may have been delayed, but Rolling Stone’s two-and-a-half star review of Weezy’s rap-rock album, plus the We Are Young Money compilation from Lil Wayne’s record label collective, is up now. Also, Hurricane Chris’ second album Unleashed and the Jerry Garcia Band’s great 1975 Bay Area gig Let It Rock.