Desaparecidos: Payola review – middling return for Conor Oberst’s punk project

Harking back to the early-00s punk of Glassjaw and Jimmy Eat World, Conor Oberst’s Desaparecidos sound oddly out of time

Son Lux: Bones review – symphonic pop that proves too much to take in

Son Lux’s hectic stylistic pileup finds sounds jostling for space on a record that might be too ambitious for its own good

Wolf Alice: My Love Is Cool review – familiar but invigorating indie-rock

Wolf Alice transcend their influences to make a grungy debut album that has an identity all of its own

Everything Everything: Get to Heaven review – prog-pop eccentrics sounding too clever by half

From deeply beautiful to spectacularly irritating, Everything Everything’s third album captures the sensory overload of modern life all too well

Of Monsters and Men review – unbridled joy, but darkness on the horizon

The singalong-friendly Icelanders are looking more like a stadium band and the new material is catchy but more sombre

Bergenfest: hot acts brave hypothermia to make Norway’s coolest toes tap

The Norwegian pop festival packs big names like Patti Smith into a Viking castle with Scandi stars for an eclectic weekend of nostalgia, dance and waterproofs

Gengahr: A Dream Outside review – deceptively catchy indie songsmithery

North London four-piece Gengahr’s gentle indie boasts appealing arrangements, pretty tunes and plenty of potential

Morrissey live review – joy somewhat confined as Moz puts politics to the fore

He may have narrowly avoided death recently but on the first night of his US tour Morrissey brought a full-blooded show that took swings at all the usual suspects

Gengahr: A Dream Outside review – psychpop with an emphasis on the pop

London’s Gengahr makes songs full of frazzled, festival-ready melodies

Girlpool review – a beautiful musical friendship

Throwing vocals between each other, Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad’s raw sound finds mellower romance live

TV on the Radio review – lost between studio and stadium in Sydney

The Brooklyn band’s ramped up sound is at odds with the Opera House space, but Australian singer Kirin J Callinan in support is a magnetic presence, writes Elle Hunt