The Wave Pictures: A Season in Hull review – adventures in retro recording

The underrated indie trio strip it back again, with songs richer than ever

Basia Bulat: Good Advice review – a rich and raw return

The Canadian singer’s invigorating fourth album showcases her pop and soul tendencies

The Jezabels: Synthia review – refreshed feminist rockers record their opus

A creatively renewed Jezabels return more playful and wise in their third and best album yet, in which gender politics gel perfectly with grand indie rock

Kula Shaker: K 2.0 review – Britpop mystics back in the psychedelic saddle

Crispin Mills and co return with more sitar rock, and despite veering towards self-parody, there’s a reflective maturity here too

Flowers: Everyone’s Dying to Meet You review – excessively retrogressive indie

Flowers might be intending to pay nostalgic tribute to a beloved indie sound of old, but there’s something sickly about the result

Basia Bulat: Good Advice review – Canadian folk singer embraces technicolour pop

Relocated from Montreal to Louisville, Basia Bulat teams up with My Morning Jacket’s Jim James for a dazzling, frazzling new album

Animal Collective: Painting With review – psychedelic playmates inspire and infuriate

Baltimore’s most admired and reviled band deliver a new album that is undoubtedly inventive, and at times weirdly satisfying – but almost supernaturally annoying as well

Suede review – perfect performance by the best older band around

Brett Anderson and co act their age and yet turn back the clock in an exhilarating gig that covers mature new ground as well as past glories

The Prettiots: Funs Cool review – New York indiepop duo with darker depths

Their ukeleles and chirpy melodies might suggest out-and-out cutesiness, but the words beneath are anything but

Sunflower Bean: Human Ceremony review – fidgety indie rockers tackle God and space

Brooklyn rock trio Sunflower Bean transcend vogueish indie nonchalance via plenty of lightness and nuance

Diiv: Is the Is Are review – Zachary Cole Smith over-indulges to fine effect

Diiv’s new album is too long and sticks too closely to one style, but after a while you realise that’s probably the point

Field Music: Commontime review – infectious warmth from the critics’ favourite indie duo

The Brewis brothers’ sixth album of intricate, thoughtful songs is worthy of all the praise they continue to attract

Savages review – battling the patriarchy before breakfast

Savages launch album No 2 with a morning workout

Bloc Party: Hymns review – a brave and successful reinvention

Kele Okereke’s band swap angst for joy on their spiritual new album

Turin Brakes: Lost Property review – quiet complexity on acoustic rockers’ welcome return

Their gently rocking sound may have been subsumed by Coldplay et al’s unsubtle bombast, but there is still much confidence and charm here