This Week In Music: 10/1-10/7

This week in music listening, featuring patent-pending two-word reviews:

Tom Petty: Wildflowers – mellower Petty
L.A. Guns: Man in the Moon – decent riffage
Monster Magnet: Monolithic Baby – solid stoner
Genesis: Nursery Cryme – progressive nuggets
Vixen: Rev It Up – lacks spark
Kingdom Come: In Your Face – more Zeppelin’ing
Jim Carroll: Runaway EP – interesting snapshot
Tindersticks: The Hungry Saw – cinematic quality
Rufus Wainwright: Want Two – underdeveloped melodrama
XTC: English Settlement – brilliant weirdness
Muse: The 2nd Law – mediocre Muse
Pete Townshend: The Other Scoop – reinterpreted Who