Ride: Interplay review – perpetual teenage kicks, now with added anger

Forays into psychedelia and world affairs serve the reformed British shoegaze pioneers well on their seventh album

Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood review – sprightly Americana with added poise

Katie Crutchfield’s latest album swaps the strung-out drama of its acclaimed predecessor for precision and broad relatability

Julia Holter: Something in the Room She Moves review – the best track is the simplest

Found sounds and touches of jazz enliven the American singer-songwriter’s woozy evocation of being present in changing times

Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood review – intimate Americana tackling life’s great tangle

Katie Crutchfield’s sixth album refines the breezy country of her 2020 breakthrough Saint Cloud and finds her as compelled by the complexities of life as its eases

Yard Act review – a band having fun in the midst of an identity crisis

Seeming to play their jagged post-punky early material with some reluctance, the Leeds band strike out into bold new territory with hypnotic electronic grooves, disco stompers – and a Napalm Death collab

Faye Webster: Underdressed at the Symphony review – petal-voiced power

The Atlanta twentysomething’s 70s-tinged alt-country is delicate and eclectic, complete with guest spots from Wilco’s Nels Cline and rapper Lil Yachty

Helado Negro: Phasor review – undimmable warmth

Digital meets analogue on the American musician’s short but sweet latest

NewDad: Madra review – unfiltered songcraft in a dreamy yet spiky debut

From Pixies to Garbage, New Order to Wolf Alice, you can clearly detect the Galway four-piece’s influences – but lyrics about shame and self-doubt make this an affecting album

Future Islands: People Who Aren’t There Anymore review – a brutal, beautiful breakup album

The synthpop quartet’s heart-on-sleeve frontman, Samuel T Herring, is by turns lovelorn and lovestruck on their affecting seventh LP

The Libertines review – raucous return for chaotic indie heroes

Previewing their first new album for nine years to a tiny but thrilled audience, Pete Doherty and Carl Barât’s band continue to stumble around greatness

Katy Kirby: Blue Raspberry review – depth disguised by breeziness

The Texas singer-songwriter makes up for time lost to her evangelical background with a second album of impeccable craft and lyricism

Torres: What An Enormous Room review – a confident declaration of rock-star ambition

The indie musician flexes the noirish power of her commanding voice on her sixth album, and embraces grand new sonic theatrics

The Smile: Wall of Eyes review – inventive Radiohead side project risks eclipsing the real thing

Despite all the lyrical disquiet, there is a lovely sense of ease to the Smile’s second album – and some of the best music Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood have put their names to in at least a decade

The Vaccines: Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations review – high-octane sonic euphoria

The indie rockers’ sixth album offers more of the same boisterous widescreen anthems and big singable choruses – but with some subtler lyrical depths

Bill Ryder-Jones: Iechyd Da review – Coral co-founder’s songs of heartache and hope

Ryder-Jones’s recent production experience comes to the fore on this wide-reaching album, making use of Motown, 60s pop and a children’s choir to find the light in the darkness