Squeeze: Trixies review – finally completed first album proves teenage dreams are hard to beat
Squeeze’s first new album in nearly a decade is based on material written when they were teenagers. It’s endearing but callow
10cc review – 70s legends reprise a dazzling string of pop classics
50 years since the band fractured with the departure of Godley and Creme, songs from Donna to I’m Not in Love are in prime condition on what is billed as ‘another bloody greatest hits tour’
Harry Styles: Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally review – nice all the time. Good, occasionally
The music on Styles’s new album is muted, subtle and pleasant – but from the title downwards, he has a real problem with words
David Byrne review – in life during wartime, this show will restore your faith in humanity
Byrne again reimagines the possibilities of the live gig, creating a vision of egalitarianism backed by elastic bass and polyrhythms
Lily Allen review – pop star makes much-anticipated comeback – but where is the West End Girl?
Allen isn’t in the first act of her own show, only coming on after 45 minutes of a string ensemble to stiffly deliver her acclaimed album in full
Morrissey review – classic Smiths songs meet GB News-style talking points
Morrissey is in impressive voice and the old songs still retain their power, but the conspiracy theorising and nationalist rhetoric are miserable in all the worst ways
Grace Jones review – chaos, nudity and endless costume changes: the disco legend’s show has it all
The 77-year-old is one of our greatest living performers, doing sit-ups, hula-hooping and even flashing the audience – but her rich voice is the true revelation
Cruz Beckham review – son of David and Victoria transcends nepo-baby tag with intriguing psych-pop
His music is still all over the place, lurching from landfill indie to solipsistic ballads, but the youngest Beckham son can certainly play guitar
Bruno Mars: The Romantic review – you’re better off listening to the songs he’s blatantly imitating
(Atlantic)Harking back to Oye Como Va, Move On Up and other 20th-century classics, Mars’s homages are beautifully performed but bereft of new ideas
Lala Lala: Heaven 2 review – brooding alt-popper fights the urge to run
Lillie West’s fourth album is a hazy, mid-tempo meditation on escape that gets stuck in a numbing mid-tempo mode – though there is a gorgeous moment of release
Gorillaz: The Mountain review – a late career peak haunted by ghosts yet glowing with life
Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s cartoon band mark 25 years with an album inspired by India and shaped by loss, featuring collaborators living and dead
Hen Ogledd: Discombobulated review – a manifesto for collective action from Richard Dawson’s folk-rockers
Featuring taunts in Welsh, ‘bard rap’ and spirited jigs, the British quartet’s ragged, rich music underpins their vision for change
The Streets review – semi-theatrical staging of A Grand Don’t Come for Free resurrects a British classic
Deadpan recital of the era-defining album of downbeat English rap suits the full-album format, presented with a formidable band
Mitski: Nothing’s About to Happen to Me review – mordant, melodic melancholy from the best songwriter of her generation
The US singer-songwriter’s latest album flits deftly from horror to humour, with threads of melancholy and desperate unhappiness binding the tracks
U2: Days of Ash review – six new tracks reaffirm the band as a vital political voice
On their first collection of new songs since 2017, the quartet have a crispness that has been lacking in their 21st-century material, as they nimbly react to shocking news stories