Sidestepper: Supernatural Love review – sunny electro-acoustic pop from Columbia

Richard Blair’s long-established, Colombia-based project returns with a sunnier, more acoustic emphasis

Massive Attack review – hits and misses in high-stakes experiment

A visual backdrop that flashes refugee statistics as well as prosaic web searches echoes a musical offering that shifts from spiky rap to blunted sensuality

Sophie review – scream if you want to go slower

The enigmatic pop producer see his music as a thrill ride – but as a live experience, his beat barrage could do with a few balancing plateaus

Sophie review – thrilling, lucid, hyper-consumable pop

Village Underground, LondonIn black PVC and red lipstick, the producer’s live debut proper delivered music that was immediate, compelling and genuinely new

RÜFÜS: Bloom review – efficient, highly-functional dancefloor fodder

In their second album Sydney dance trio RÜFÜS continue to make music that excels at not interrupting the good vibrations of party people

Akase: Graspers review – airless, ersatz dance-pop

Harry Agius and Robbie Redway have a knack for catchy vocal hooks, but their latest project is hard to enjoy

Hidden gems of 2015: great records you may have missed

From the thrill of Brittany Howard’s alter ego to joy on the Wirral, our critics pick some of this year’s under-the-radar releases

Fufanu: Few More Days to Go review – thrillingly malevolent and catchy tunes

Lyrics about employment drudgery rage and brood over walls of glacial electronics that recall Joy Division and Bauhaus

Blanck Mass review – intense voyage into inner space

Benjamin John Power takes the crowd with him on a fantastic instrumental journey that thrums with a ceaseless cyborg pulse

Todd Terje review – floor-frying retro rave

It’s Terje time as the lone DJ mixes lounge bar funk grooves with early disco to start a party fit for Christmas

Jack Garratt; Mumford & Sons – review

This year’s next big thing has shades of Sheeran while the Mumfords evolve beyond homespun

Hudson Mohawke review – ferocious, apocalyptic electro

With synths that screech like air brakes and crushing, abrasive beats, a night of Mohawke’s musical maximalism is both exhilarating and wearying

Underworld: Second Toughest in the Infants box set review – abstract, expansive art-techno

This expanded version of the second album from the great art-ravers is an ideal showcase for their iterative songwriting process

Radioland: Radio-Activity Revisited review – Kraftwerk boldly reimagined

Collaborative reinterpretation of Kraftwerk’s 1975 album

Sophie: Product review – digital pop divorced from the analogue world

Producer Samuel Long expands pop’s parameters on his irrepressible, state-of-the-art debut