Amy Schriefer

Almost 10 years after "Take Me Out" helped the band break through commercially, win a Mercury Prize and craft a zeitgeist-defining sound — and two years after a rumored breakup — the Glaswegian dance-rock outfit returns with its first new album since 2009.

Hanni El Khatib and his band brave sharp desert succulents, chilly temperatures and an aggressive maraca for this performance of the appropriately titled "Save Me."

The sister act from Los Angeles took home the BBC's Sound of 2013 award. Watch them perform "Falling" at Filter Magazine's SXSW Showdown in Austin, Texas.

NPR Music remembers the singers, instrumentalists, songwriters and personalities who died in 2012. Explore their musical legacies.