These is the random stack of CDs cluttering the downstairs bathroom this month. I have a handy Sony 5-disk player in there for showertime.

• Elf Power, Sunlight on the Moon. Oft-overlooked, pretty darn prolific (15 albums) Elephant Six collective member. This is their most recent album, from 2013.
• The Best of Antoinio Carlos Jobim. One of those “20th Century Masters” budget CDs. Judging from this, Jobim liked to swim: “Agua de Beber,” “Aguas de Marco,” “Wave,” “Tide” and the ultimate jazz beach song “The Girl from Ipanema.”
• The Shazam, Tomorrow the World. One of their most audacious power pop efforts, as suggested by lead track “Rockin’ and Rollin’ With My Rock and Roll Rock and Roller.”
• Elvis Costello Live With the Metropole Orkest, My Flame Burns Blue. The bonus disk is the shorter version of the “Il Sogno” Suite which Costello composed for a ballet based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream (performed in 2000 by the Italian Aterballeto Dance Company).
• Christiane Noll, The Ira Gershwin Album. There was a time in the ‘90s and ‘00s when Noll was not only making a name for herself on Broadway, she was visiting Connecticut frequently—with Jekyll & Hyde, the Urinetown tour, at the Goodspeed in Mack & Mabel and Lizzie Borden, and in concert appearances at the Bushnell and elsewhere. I love the unexpected selections on this Gershwin set: “Tchaikovsky,” “I Was Doing All Right,” “In Our United State,” “There Is No Music”…
• The Funky 16 Corners. Amazing funk comp of groundbreaking regional hits of the early 1970s. Does for funk what Nuggets did for garage rock.
• The Essential Adam Ant.
• Adam Ant, B-Side Babies. This guy deserves a reappreciation, and it’s nice to see him get taken seriously in some of the newer New Wave history books.
• 10cc, 10cc. Those first albums captivated me as a teenager, and still think that the blend of the hyper-creative risk-takers Lol Creme and Kevin Godley and the mainstream pop craftsmen Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart had genius to it. Now I’m older, I think they often too self-consciously precocious and clever, but in the ‘70s there was nothing as smart out there.
• Teenage Fanclub, Shadows. I don’t think they did one perfect album, but each one has several perfect songs.
• Randy Newman, Harps and Angels. Proof that, over a winding and unpredictable half-century career, he’s never lost his sardonic touch.
• MOJO presents DavidHeroesBowie. The free disk that came with the latest issue of MOJO, of “the artists that influenced David Bowie.” Anthony Newley and Jacques Brel and Vince Taylor and The Pretty Things, of course, but also Bobby Bland, Billy Fury, Ronnie Ross Quintet and The Flares (“Foot Stomping,” a taste Bowie has in common with John Waters, who put the song in the original Hairspray film).