Luluc: Sculptor review – the hushed sounds of the suburbs

Zoë Randell and Steve Hassett’s latest takes being out of step with time, place or art on a sad-beautiful journey

Deafheaven: Ordinary Corrupt Human Love review – black metal with grey areas

By turning their outsider status – not quite metal, not quite indie, beholden to shoegaze and dreampop – into a virtue, Deafheaven have made a unique album

Dirty Projectors: Lamp Lit Prose review – lovedrunk swoons from hip-pop heroes

This polar opposite of Dave Longstreth’s previous break-up howl, this album is impossible to resist

Bodega: Endless Scroll review – riot grrrl rant meets deadpan satire

(What’s Your Rupture?)

77:78: Jellies review – sunburned and delirious English psychedelia

Perfect for summer 2018, Aaron Fletcher and Tim Parkin’s debut flits around genres and decades, mostly the 60s, without losing its originality

Shed Seven review – a nostalgia rush from the Britpop songbook

Rick Witter’s 90s band offer very little in the way of progression, but they recapture the spirit of a bygone era

Let’s Eat Grandma: I’m All Ears review – bold, intense pop that gets under the skin

The duo’s second album is all about abandoning fear and leaping towards desire

My Bloody Valentine review – apocalyptic aural dust storms like nothing else in rock

This warm-up gig starts rustily, but soon sounds incredible. And there’s genuine mystery in how the band make their enthralling, bizarre music

The Wave Pictures: Brushes with Happiness review – dreamlike, bluesy and unique

Recorded in one improvised take while the band were drunk, this hazy album is full of literary reveries

Panic! at the Disco: Pray for the Wicked review – a parade of emo-pop pizzazz

Now comprised of sole member Brendon Urie, PATD’s new album sounds very much like a musical on the theme of the trials of success

Anna Calvi review – rock star melodrama meets MOR

The idiosyncratic singer-songwriter is best when she revels in all her gothic majesty

Johnny Marr: Call the Comet review – his best solo album yet

(New Voodoo/Warner)

Melody’s Echo Chamber: Bon Voyage review – a psych-pop hotchpotch

Melody Prochet’s second album is so full of left turns, style changes and different languages it’s hard to keep up, but it’s never dull

Johnny Marr: Call the Comet review – the light that never went out

Marr’s best solo album is humane, melodic and authoritative, in contrast to the other former Smith, Morrissey – surely his time is now?

Arctic Monkeys review – cheesy irony dissolves into masterful rock’n’roll

With his mocking intros and bingo-hall croon, Alex Turner is not entirely genuine – but this greatest-hits set is the stuff of a bona fide rock powerhouse