Joanna Newsom: Divers review – an album of breathtaking agility
Eleven joyous tracks from the harpist superstar
Beach House: Thank Your Lucky Stars review – woozy pop with elegant hooks
Baltimore duo’s swift follow-up to Depression Cherry hangs together cohesively
Little May: For the Company review – samey indie rock with minor flourishes
If loud-quiet-loud was the white rock sound of the early 1990s, this is the era of next to no dynamic range at all and Sydney trio Little May fit in perfectly
Pure Bathing Culture: Pray for Rain review – gauzy pop full of hidden dread
There is existential dread lurking beneath the surface of Pure Bathing Culture’s gauzy pop sound, but you might not notice
La Luz review – surf ‘n’ mirth with a sinister undertow
Crowd-surfing to twangy doom-wop, with the audience on drums and a conga line below, the four-piece create a jive-happy soundtrack to oblivion
Boy & Bear: Limit of Love review – crisp, risk-free folk-pop that will offend no one
Sitting comfortably in the embrace of Australia’s music establishment, Boy & Bear fail to step outside of their radio-friendly safe zone on their third album
CMJ weekend: Weaves, Diet Cig and Donovan Wolfington audition as indie’s ‘great hope’
As the annual search for new talent concludes, our round-up takes in the final weekend featuring scouse leotard wearers and the ‘most exciting band’ yet
Deerhunter: Fading Frontier review – the best is saved until last
Deerhunter’s follow-up to Monomania is more unpredictable than first impressions suggest
Real Lies: Real Life review – lovelorn electropoppers repackage the 90s
London’s Real Lies borrow heavily from 90s pop for metropolitan electro that prowls around the unfashionable edges of city life
Deerhunter: Fading Frontier review – Bradford Cox’s poppiest album yet
The Deerhunter mastermind’s latest musical whims take the band into more straightforward pop territory – but there’s still a deep disquiet to it all
Editors review – ‘We’ve had nightmares about this’
Crippled by sound problems, the band plays on – and there is a charged atmosphere for their shortened set of brooding indie disco
Alex G: Beach Music review – easy on the ear, but no great reveal
The lo-fi Philadelphian’s second album sticks to the bedroom aesthetics
This week’s new tracks: Honne drop a funky, bitter break-up anthem
Honne | The Parrots | David Guetta & Showtek ft Magic! | Weyes Blood | Jamie Lawson
Art vs Science: Off The Edge of The Earth and Into Forever, Forever review
The Sydney trio largely succeed in delivering an ambitious and more sophisticated second album without losing their dancefloor appeal
Dilly Dally: Sore review – unsanitised aggression from Toronto indie-punks
Dilly Dally’s explicit, brutalist sound doesn’t stray far from the indie-punk template, but its moody determination make it a winner