Marina: Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land review – ambitious manifesto pop

(Atlantic)The Welsh singer brings an operatic seductiveness to her ballads against misogyny

Sleater-Kinney: The Path of Wellness review – two boldly go…

(Mom + Pop)The band’s first album as a duo gets back to glowering-rock fundamentals – but does it chime with the mood of the times?

Wolf Alice: Blue Weekend review – marvellous sequel to their Mercury winner

Ellie Rowsell’s shapeshifting, storytelling flair combines with shoegaze, folk and indie pop on this alchemically good album

Wolf Alice: Blue Weekend review – massive ambitions exceptionally fulfilled

On their third and best album, the London four-piece embrace a more polished, widescreen sound that serves their sharp writing on late-20s anxieties

Girl in Red: If I Could Make It Go Quiet review – calm before the storm

Marie Ulven’s debut album is a quietly confident declaration of intent

London Grammar: Californian Soil review – bold sounds amid the usual spectral fare

The British trio stick to boilerplate emoting and bland imagery, but there are small sonic steps forward

Dry Cleaning: New Long Leg review – terrific post-punk poets of the everyday

Florence Shaw’s laconic spoken delivery is a highlight in a talented band making the quotidian exciting

For Those I Love: For Those I Love review – an exorcism of grief on the dancefloor

A eulogy for a dead friend, David Balfe’s stirring debut combines lyrics on class, death and despair with clubland highs and hope

Arab Strap: As Days Get Dark review – less callow, more crafted

The caustic duo forge existential stories from tinny beats on their first album in 16 years

Mogwai: As the Love Continues review – extremely loud and incredibly close

Glasgow’s post-rock giants launch their 10th album with a thunderous filmed playback that cries out to be heard live

Black Country, New Road live stream review – frantic and celebratory

This protean seven-piece confound once more, this time with an improvised gig of completely new material…

Palberta: Palberta5000 review – losing their edge?

The wonderfully scrappy New York indie trio are broadening their style but don’t quite have the songs to match

Shame: Drunk Tank Pink review – indie punks confront the post-gig era

The London band went from playing a 350-show stretch to nothing at all – and while tunes are lacking, their subsequent dislocation makes for some thrilling music

Cabaret Voltaire: Shadow of Fear review – a fittingly dystopian fantasy from Sheffield’s industrial pioneers

The first Cabaret Voltaire album in more than two decades feels oddly of the moment, their grim presentiments about disinformation, curfews and crackdowns fulfilled

Future Islands: As Long As You Are review – intensely moving

A sixth album from the Baltimore synth-pop band finds their music as urgent and impassioned as ever