The Vamps: Wake Up review – don’t call them a boyband

These four young men seem a little desperate to be taken seriously, but there is little imagination on display here

Oneohtrix Point Never: Garden of Delete review – the soundtrack to Justin Bieber’s anxiety dreams

Daniel Lopatin claims Garden of Delete to be his pop album, but it’s still a deeply challenging listen

Sophie: Product review – forehead-slappingly obvious pop provocations from PC Music affiliate

MP3 dildos aside, Product has nothing new to add to the conversation about pop’s relationship to artifice and consumerism

Arca: Mutant review – digital shape-shifting

The former Björk collaborator is by turns chilling and sexual on his second album

Floating Points review – warm electro weaves a delicate euphoria

DJ Sam Shepherd employs strings, sax and a cooing choir to bring a hypnotic intensity to his sophisticated sound

Chvrches review – bubblegum pop that leaves a bad taste of niceness

The Dome, BrightonThe electronic trio look like goths and have a surprisingly heavy sound, but they’re just too shiny and nice

New Order review – pure serotonin for an existential ache

Dedicating Love Will Tear Us Apart to the victims of the Paris attacks, Sumner and co shimmer through an untouchable back catalogue of electro alchemy

LA Priest review – madcap electro from the synthpop surrealist

Arriving dressed for bed, Late of the Pier’s former frontman creates a mood of merriment with his hazy, subtly funky sounds

Floating Points: Elaenia review – a creeping, soaring debut

Sam Shepherd’s restless digitals hit the spot

Jamie Woon: Making Time review – back with soul and pared-back purpose

He took his time but the London-born singer-songwriter has come up with a crisp second album

Jenny Hval review – existential musings on a yoga ball

Veering dangerously close to performance art, Hval redeems her full Ono with wit and self-awareness served with sparse tunes that echo early Björk

Floating Points: Elaenia review – a soaring, beautiful electronic jazz journey

Sam Shepherd’s debut as Floating Points is a meditative, jazz-influenced marvel that reveals more with every listen

Jamie Woon: Making Time review – excellent, soul-styled second album

Jamie Woon shifts away from the dancefloor somewhat on his terrific, soulful second album

Grimes at the Guggenheim review – an art-pop anticlimax

On the eve of her fourth album, Grimes played a Dior-sponsored concert in one of New York’s most famous buildings – but did she forget to pack her edge?

King Midas Sound review – heady cocktail of melancholy amid sepulchral sonic wreckage

Kevin Martin’s collaboration with Roger Robinson, Kiki Hitomi and Christian Fennesz mixes up aching melancholy with icy soundscapes to addictive effect