Owl City: Mobile Orchestra review – bland, twee and bound to be huge
Adam Young’s electropop/county/soft-rock genre pileup is so poorly executed as to be almost insulting
Björk review – singer shines in achingly personal, stripped down performance
Icelandic superstar, sporting a DayGlo butterfly outfit, performs the intense Vulnicura, chronicling her break up with artist Matthew Barney
Ezra Furman: Perpetual Motion People review – an outsider who’s not just lovable but hummable
The cross-dressing misfit proves easy on the ear with this scattershot third album full of great hooks and choruses
Lucy Rose: Work It Out review – indie hooks fail to take hold
Lucy Rose struggles to make an impact with a poppier sound
Veruca Salt: Ghost Notes review – dreary alt-rock by numbers
The reformed female-fronted alt-rock combo’s comeback LP ticks the right boxes but is ultimately just plain dull
Black Grape review – the great lost band of the 90s
Sounding as genre-meldingly brilliant as they did back in 1995, Shaun Ryder’s caustic, absurd party monsters are a re-formed force to be reckoned with
Solid Sound review – Wilco’s intimate art fest brings the masses to MoCA
The band’s carefully curated mix of art and music elevated both forms, while the only fly in the ointment was Mac DeMarco’s half-hearted slacker shtick
GZA/Tortoise/Lightning Bolt review – an expanding musical universe
The acts at Mogwai’s All Tomorrow’s Parties micro-festival take different approaches, but they have intensity, intricacy and nuance in common
Florence + the Machine at Glastonbury 2015 review – infectious enthusiasm
Florence Welch seizes her Glastonbury moment and wrestles it to the ground with abandon in her storming Friday night headline set
The Libertines at Glastonbury 2015 review – whimsical nostalgia
One rare spark captures the incendiary romanticism between Pete and Carl, but fails to light a new-found fire
The Charlatans at Glastonbury 2015 review – indie everymen let the good times roll
The curse of the secret set is broken as Tim Burgess and co fire up the morning crowd with classics such as North Country Boy and One to Another
Michael Head & The Strands: The Olde World review – sublime set of unreleased songs and outtakes
A set of songs left off the Strands’ classic 1997 album provides fans with some more wonderful Michael Head moments
Mogwai review – tidal waves of feedback and colossal screes of sound
Glasgow’s indomitable post-rock group celebrate 20 years of making visceral, humane noise with another set of immaculate soundscapes
Wolf Alice: My Love Is Cool review – giddy with vim and potential
The grungy Londoners do more than wallow in the past on their 90s-friendly debut
Everything Everything: Get to Heaven review – a Radiohead you can dance to
The quartet’s third album is bursting with ideas and fights shy of easy pigeonholing