Depeche Mode: Memento Mori review – a life-affirming farewell for Fletch
Andy Fletcher’s two surviving bandmates reflect on mortality on an album of warm, weird electro-pop
100 Gecs: 10,000 Gecs review – derangedly catchy hyperpop
The US pop-punk duo go for the mainstream jugular with nagging melodies and killer hooks
Fever Ray: Radical Romantics review – Karin Dreijer returns sunny side up
Wittily exploring desire and relationships, the identity-surfing Swedish star sounds revitalised on their first solo album in six years
Yazmin Lacey: Voice Notes review – songs to love and savour
The Nottingham-based artist’s debut album delivers a seamless mix of jazz, soul and electronica
Hannah Peel review – elegiac synths weave a dreamy electronic spell
Paying tribute to her hero Delia Derbyshire, the electronica artist took us through her album Fir Wave and beyond in a triumphant show
Skrillex: Quest for Fire review – restless dance-pop swerves between frustration and innovation
The connoisseur’s EDM artist crams every production trick in the book on to his second full-length LP: guest-laden eclecticism that walks the line between catchy and annoying
Rokia Koné review – Malian star’s ragged, diva-ish charm is unstoppable
Former Les Amazones d’Afrique singer and Jackknife Lee collaborator Koné fuses psychedelia and electro-house with her beautiful, Bambara-sung words
Rian Treanor and Ocen James: Saccades review – Rotherham producer meets Ugandan folk fiddler
The presence of James’ bow complements Treanor’s dense compositions, creating the latter’s most melodic and dancefloor-adjacent work to date
Mount Westmore: Snoop, Cube, 40, $hort review – harmless nostalgia and charmless bluster
The west coast rap supergroup’s album works reasonably well at times, but there are more misses than hits
Lea Bertucci: Xtended Vox review – shimmering soundscapes with added growling dog
It might sound a bit Vic Reeves, but go past the giggles and the experimental vocalists and this compilation touches profundity in fascinating ways
Leftfield: This is What We Do review – mighty, all-embracing workouts and more
Born out of a tumultuous time in Neil Barnes’s life, this heady mix of bangers and righteous sounds is a keeper
Honey Dijon: Black Girl Magic review – tight, anthemic celebration of Black queer identity
The house legend and Beyoncé collaborator is back with 15 celebratory hits that span styles and explode with personality
Sault: Aiir, Earth, Today & Tomorrow, Untitled (God), 11 review – an act of supreme generosity
The esteemed collective release five dazzlingly eclectic albums, melding rap, post-punk and modern classical composition
Daniel Avery: Ultra Truth review – a perfectly balanced cocktail of euphoria and disquiet
Introspective and propulsive, intense and opaque: these instrumentals tie the disparate strands of the producer’s oeuvre into a coherent, compelling whole
Mode festival review – ‘elevated’ dance music brings new life to Sydney’s Cockatoo Island
The former penal colony has been the sandstone-and-steel backdrop for art shows, concerts and festivals – but nothing quite like Mode