Bassvictim: Peace + War review – like a thrillingly chaotic house party that goes on too long
On their fourth buzzy project in two years, the gobby and combustible US-Polish pair are best when they’re leaning into the roughness of their sound
Loidis: From the Toolkit of Lovers review – epic 111-minute album is a teeming universe of detail
Brian Leeds, AKA Huerco S, keeps raising the temperature on his once-chilly ambient on an ambitious record full of delightful detail and ASMR-inducing sound design
Super Graphic Spectacular review – Chappell Roan dazzles at her gloriously gay mini-festival
With performances by Christina Aguilera, Lola Young and Tinashe, the pop star brings a colorful vision to life in support of LGBTQ+ charities
Weird Baile: Collected Rips 2004-2024 review – a hallucinatory trip to baile funk’s outer limits
Two decades of work from producers JLZ, VHOOR, Mu540 and DJ RaMeMes strips the Brazilian genre to its essential parts until it chimes with grime and drill
Tame Impala review – Kevin Parker ricochets between musical uppers and downers in eye-popping arena show
Melancholic newer tracks sit uncomfortably alongside the chunky psychedelia and hazy prog-rock the Australian band is known for
The rise of Dom Dolla: what the DJ’s record-breaking stadium show for 60,000 fans tells us about music today
Dom Dolla’s enormous show in Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium set a new record for a solo EDM artist in Australia, and proves how the genre is dominating
Gilla Band: Pugnello review – furious originality fuelled by cathartic aggression and absurdist confessions
Your favourite band’s favourite band unleash a thrilling and relentless 42 minutes of monstrous noise whose precise instrumental source always remains discomfitingly unclear
Empress Of: Dream House review – a tender and openhearted rebirth after wildfires razed her house
Lorely Rodriguez contemplates the meaning of home – both physical and emotional – on a gorgeously humid, hopeful album that makes a virtue of her searching nature
Haruomi Hosono: Yours Sincerely review – slight songs with huge hearts from the Japanese pop pioneer
Unpredictable and utterly beguiling, the septuagenarian beloved by Harry Styles brings a hint of mischief to his innocently charming songs
Slayyyter live review – raucous show announces a new princess of sleaze-pop
The cult star proves she is ready for pop’s big leagues in a show that blends chaotic punk energy with technical finesse
Overmono review – irresistible dance duo swap club intimacy for well-earned spectacle
Playing their biggest headlining gig to date, the Russell brothers are in a bouncy mood, though their grandstanding rave melodies lose some punch in an outdoor environment
Arca: XXXXX review – a wild, brilliant album that taps into our bodies’ most feral frequencies
In the follow-up to her Kick series, Arca jumbles the building blocks of electronic music to create a beautiful, disorienting sound world
The Black Lights review – Mica Levi, Moin and Klein thrill at an awesome addition to the UK festival circuit
Tapping into the kitsch and romance of a Blackpool weekender, this debut offering from Manchester’s White Hotel becomes a triumph of pan-genre experimentalism
Pussy Riot: CYKA review – debut album from iconic Russian agitators is let down by blunt-force EDM
On a disappointing record helmed by co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova, corny guitars and generically moody synths undermine the activist group’s political acuity
Matías Aguayo: Anenoa review – the funkiest, freest singer in the business hits the dancefloor
The Chilean-German producer’s shapeshifting vocals stir Latin rhythms, ghetto house, trance and more into a playful party