Bright Light Bright Light: Life Is Easy review – bittersweet lyrics and rave beats

Rod Thomas's lyrics champion the injured party; combined with shimmering melodies, this is one for the old skool, writes Caroline Sullivan

Manic Street Preachers: Futurology review – startlingly fresh and different

Alexis Petridis: The Manics' exhilarating, krautrock-tinged 11th album is unmistakably theirs, but unlike anything they've done before

La Roux review – gloriously upbeat pop gets crowd doing invisible limbo

Back touring her second album, Trouble in Paradise, Elly Jackson delivers fresh neo-disco classics and first-album favourites in a makeshift paradise, writes Mark Beaumont

London Grammar at Glastonbury 2014 review – vast swaths of empty emoting

The current indie-soul crossover darlings provided few crescendos, but there were moments of sublime intensity, writes Mark Beaumont

Voices review – Phantogram’s giddy blend of electro and aching vocals

The Brooklyn duo evoke everything from Bauhaus to Phil Spector in an audacious second album, writes Paul Mardles

High Life review – Eno · Hyde’s second album in two months is not just offcuts

Though their world music jams could be wiggier, this new record matches up to Someday World, writes Kitty Empire

Skrillex at Glastonbury 2014 review – an intergalactic rave bombardment

With a Jedi starfighter of a stage set, and a barrage of sub-bass-mangled tunes, Skrillex made his bid to claim the electronic-music throne

Rudimental at Glastonbury 2014 review – headline-act swagger in the mid-afternoon

Just when a lack of big-name guest stars looked like being the sole letdown of a swaggering Rudimental set, on came Ed Sheeran

Jungle at Glastonbury 2014 review – attention-grabbing futurist soul

If their laser-honed indie R&B felt too precise, Jungle showed enough invention and energy to get a massive crowd moving, writes Gwilym Mumford

The The: Soul Mining reissue review – a brilliant and idiosyncratic pop album

Alexis Petridis: The The's first album, which dropped out of sight after release, was later acclaimed as a masterpiece. This reissue is richly deserved

Camden Crawl review – less buzz, more original spirit

Lack of star billing cut the queues to reveal a cornucopia of underground talent at this year's edition of the Camden mainstay, writes Mark Beaumont

Wysing Forest review – Luke Abbott’s unexpectedly moving electronic epics

Luke Abbott's second album has a tendency to sprawl, but its 12-minute centrepiece is more disciplined than it at first seems, writes Killian Fox

GusGus: Mexico review – artsy techno veterans get weird and dirty

The Icelandic dance trio go all in for the dirty disco feel on their latest, but they can't quite go the distance, writes Paul MacInnes

Neneh Cherry review – spellbinding, demanding, urgent

Backed by RocketNumberNine's pulsating beats and crushing synths, this was sweaty, belligerent dance and Cherry was a skipping, spinning force of nature, writes Betty Clarke

Await Barbarians review – Alexis Taylor’s ‘blithely unclassifiable’ second solo outing

The Hot Chip frontman's latest offering is a meditative and beatless collection of sketches, writes Kitty Empire