THIS WEEK'S NEW RELEASES: EVEN LL COOL J WANTS J. LO TO SHUT THE HELL UP

We’re going to get the obvious out of the way: Yes, there’s a new Raffi album out this week. And yes, it’s called Quiet Time: Songs for a Pause, Cuddle, or a Nap, which is simultaneously the best and worst album title of all time. But it’s not the only contender for your Limewire bandwith:

• LL Cool J’s twelfth album, Todd Smith, features a Puffy-level number of guests (Mary J. Blige, Pharrell, 112) and a hard-to-hate-on first single, “Control Myself,” which proves that Jennifer Lopez is an okay-enough singer, as long as her cooing is buried way down in the mix. The reviews are mixed: Entertainment Weekly puts “Myself” on its must list, calling it “A thrilling dance-floor hit with a killer beat that'll keep you shakin' all night long” (apparently, they’re saving Time Inc. moolah these days by using more contractions); but the Daily News notes that Smith “pushes things a tad too far toward the soft side.” Not that they’d say that to his face.

• You In Reverse, the comeback album from Boise, Idaho’s Built to Spill is just as noodly as ever, with a kick-off single, “Goin’ Against Your Mind,” that clocks in at nearly nine minutes. And while Earshot is happy to have Doug Martsch and company back after five years, most of Reverse sounds like the kind of songs that will work best when they're played live, confirming that BTS is slowly becoming an indie-rock version of Phish. PItchfork says "suffers from a lack of structure that leaves much of it sounding indulgent and extraneous," but you have to get through 300 words of typical BS to get to the point.
  

• Finally, there’s Toby Keith’s new album, White Trash Wins Lotto, which we haven’t listened to yet, mostly because it’s Toby Keith’s new album. But the Times’ “Krazy” Kelefa Sanneh”—who discovered country music sometime last year, and has been rubbing it in our face ever since—loves it. We’re just excited that someone’s finally put out a record that endorses both fat chicks and school prayer.