Jessie Ware: Devotion – review
Tim Jonze: Jessie Ware doesn't seem to be gunning for pop stardom or chart domination. But it all could happen anyway
John Maus – review
Maus pogos, headbangs and gives vent to a succession of feral howls over polished, carefully yearning synth-pop, writes Ian Gittins
Sidsel Endresen/Stian Westerhus: Didymoi Dreams – review
The audience reaction to this album of abstract improv says much about its power, originality and fearlessness, writes John Fordham
CocoRosie – review
CocoRosie's forte is magical-realism pop pitched at the juncture where kooky spills into spooky, writes Ian Gittins
Beat Connection: The Palace Garden – review
Beat Connection's sunny, electronic pop is as welcome as sunshine in the British summer – but perhaps equally short-lived, writes Dave Simpson
Planningtorock – review
For her Meltdown performance, Janine Rostron cloaks her charm in menace and mystery, writes Stevie Chick
Holograms: Holograms – review
The beauty – or otherwise – of this gothy, poppy Swedish quartet is all in the eye of the beholder, writes Maddy Costa
Atlas Sound – review
The music is so transportingly gorgeous that whenever Bradford Cox speaks again it's like being snapped out of a daydream, writes Dorian Lynskey
Purity Ring: Shrines – review
The Canadian duo's twitchy dream-pop invites comparisons with Björk and Fever Ray, writes Ally Carnwath
Purity Ring: Shrines – review
Montreal duo Purity Ring match synth-pop swirls with oddly catchy tunes, and deliver them with a joyous glee, writes Dave Simpson
Elton John vs Pnau: Good Morning to the Night, Volume One – review
Australian production duo Pnau raid their pal Elton John's back catalogue for a hit-and-miss set of cut'n'shut reversions, writes Caroline Sullivan
Cooly G: Playin’ Me – review
South London producer/MC Cooly G's debut album is a superb, risk-taking mix of the nonchalant and the extra-terrestrial, writes Alexis Petridis
Yeasayer – review
Yeasayer's bright shards of Duran Duran, Red Box, the Thompson Twins and Wax leap to the fore in a live setting, writes Mark Beaumont
Twin Shadow: Confess – review
More influenced by motorbikes than melancholy, George Lewis Jr's second album as Twin Shadow is top-notch electro-pop, writes Ally Carnwath
Erykah Badu – review
Treating her back catalogue like a living, breathing entity, Erykah Badu was on robust form, writes Alex Macpherson