Best Coast: The Only Place – review
Bethany Constantino has ditched her lo-fi sound for something brighter, but her bored-and-lazy slacker shtick is getting, well, boring, writes Jude Rogers
Soulsavers: The Light the Dead See – review
Soulsavers team up with Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan for a brooding album about demons, death and all the rest, writes Dave Simpson
Gaz Coombes Presents: Here Come the Bombs – review
Former Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes brings out his experimental side on his solo debut, but can't help filling it with tunes, too, writes Caroline Sullivan
Cold Specks: I Predict a Graceful Expulsion – review
Cold Specks' funereal blues doesn't quite reach the transendence it strives for, writes Rebecca Nicholson
The Temper Trap: The Temper Trap – review
Alexis Petridis: The Temper Trap weigh in on the London riots via the kind of windy cliches that would make Coldplay wince
Gossip – review
The voice of Gossip's Beth Ditto remains a thing of wonder, simultaneously tender and stentorian, but the band lacks the powerful charisma of its leader, writes Ian Gittins
The Temper Trap – review
Coldplay's immediacy and Radiohead's intricacy meet in the Temper Trap's new material, writes Graeme Virtue
Fun – review
Chartbusting New York indie rockers Fun show their sold-out audience an appropriately good time, writes Caroline Sullivan
The Great Escape – review
With massive queues to see the big artists in Brighton, the most appealing perforances were off-piste, writes Alexis Petridis
Beach House: Bloom – review
The perfect surfaces of Beach House's fourth album can be hard to break through, writes Maddy Costa
Fixers: We’ll Be the Moon – review
Fixers' modern take on psychedelia owes perhaps a little too much to Brian Wilson, but this is nevertheless a terrific album, writes Michael Hann
Garbage: Not Your Kind of People – review
Garbage are back after a five-year hiatus, and if they sometimes sound like they're trying too hard, a lot of it really works, writes Dave Simpson
Saint Etienne: Words and Music By Saint Etienne – review
Alexis Petridis: Is pop music something you grow up and grow out of? No way, say Saint Etienne – time just adds to its power
Lightships – review
Gerard Love's new band tend towards shrillness live, but an understated euphoria gradually shines through, writes Michael Hann
The Cribs: In The Belly of the Brazen Bull – review
The Cribs go all out for the noisy 90s indie-rock sound, and it suits them, but all sounds a bit too familiar, writes Rebecca Nicholson
Richard Hawley: Standing At the Sky’s Edge – review
Alexis Petridis: Richard Hawley does something of a stylistic about-face without sacrificing any of his unique appeal
The Hives – review
The Hives have an incorrigible humour that makes most other bands look po-faced and dull, writes Maddy Costa
Jack White; Santigold – review
Jack White's new six-piece backing band are a match for the White Stripes, while Santigold's poppier direction is still thrilling, writes Kitty Empire
The Magnetic Fields – review
They may be as frumpy, geeky and dour as the Glee band hitting middle age, yet they provide one of the most sublime live experiences in music, writes Mark Beaumont
Various Cruelties: Various Cruelties – review
Various Cruelties' radio-friendly songs are instantly catchy, but their appeal wears thin pretty quickly, writes Maddy Costa
Mystery Jets: Radlands – review
The Mystery Jets take a pleasant but slightly unconvincing detour into Americana on their new album, writes Rebecca Nicholson
Gravenhurst: The Ghost in Daylight – review
This beautifully haunting new set of songs from Nick Talbot confirms him as one of music's best-kept secrets, writes Dave Simpson
Jack White: Blunderbuss – review
Has he ever made a bad album, asks Kitty Empire, as the former White Stripe, Raconteur and Dead Weatherman goes it alone with bruising, brilliant results
Ty Segall and White Fence: Hair – review
One of the US underground's busiest new stars teams up with fellow West Coast psych-rockers for a superb genre record, writes Michael Hann
Brendan Benson: What Kind of World – review
There's some lovely stuff on Brendan Benson's powerpopping new album, but it just doesn't match up to his best, writes Michael Hann
Patrick Watson: Adventures In Your Own Backyard – review
The new Patrick Watson album is exquisitely produced and often very pretty, but is a little lacking in the songwriting department, writes Dave Simpson
Daniel Johnston – review
Relying on lyric sheets and haphazardly strumming his acoustic guitar, Daniel Johnston is a big man imbued with the fragility of bone china, writes Betty Clarke
Spiritualized: Sweet Heart Sweet Light – review
Jason Pierce and co's seventh album is very much business as usual… and that's the problem, writes Kitty Empire
Spiritualized: Sweet Heart Sweet Light – review
Jason Pierce turns his suffering into art once again, and the results are as grandiose and powerful as ever, writes Tim Jonze
Clock Opera: Ways to Forget – review
A surfeit of detail and a lack of ease make Guy Connelly's indie-electro debut album difficult to enjoy, writes Rebecca Nicholson
New Band of the Day Live – review
The third instalment of the live offshoot of the Guardian's new-music column played it too safe, writes Mark Beaumont
Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly and Bryce Dessner – review
It's three stars, nine planets and some bombastic atmospherics as Sufjan and company celebrate the solar system, writes Mark Beaumont
Crybaby: Crybaby – review
Indebted to overwrought early-60s ballads, and equally to the Smiths, Danny Coughlan's kitchen-sink romance rock album is a triumph, writes Michael Hann
Mystery Jets – review
Even in front of hardcore devotees in a crammed venue, they wisely offer up just the hookiest chunks, along with more familiar material, writes Graeme Virtue
Graham Coxon: A+E – review
Graham Coxon's new album finds him once again reasserting his claim to be the oldest teenager in town, writes Paul Mardles