Indigo Girls — Despite Our Differences

The latest album by the Indigo Girls marks their Hollywood Records debut. But new label or not, Despite Our Differences finds the Girls’ now-familiar sound very much intact. Here, as always, the distinctive tastes and styles of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers provide perfect counterbalance for each other. On songs such as “Lay My Head Down,” Saliers’ folkier inclinations and sweet voice take center stage, while Ray’s grittier, more rock-oriented sensibilities take over on the rollicking “Rock and Roll Heaven’s Gate” (featuring a surprisingly successful collaboration with Pink) and the somber, measured, “Dirt and Dead Ends.”