Heart Beach review – downhearted grandeur on Hobart band’s debut

Not a beat is wasted on this thoughtful album from Tasmania, imbued with that bleak but beautiful feeling of wanting to get away – if only for a holiday

The Pre New: The Male Eunuch review – angry, disturbing and extremely funny

The Pre New’s second album is another noisy splurge of glam-rock and weird electronics, and an oddly moving narrative of modern middle-age

Super Furry Animals review – homecoming gods bring the old magic

The adventuring Welsh rockers win the reunion of the year title with a dazzling set of witty and madcap hits

Best Coast: California Nights review – an impressive Sunshine State soundtrack

Best Coast’s third album offers melancholic heartbreak ballads alongside thrashier lo-fi fare, but is best taken in small doses…

My Morning Jacket: The Waterfall review – initially endearing, lacklustre later

The Kentucky five-piece seem to have lost touch with their space-rocking former selves on their latest release

Django Django: Born Under Saturn review – First Light is the high spot

Django Django’s dancefloor-friendly second album lacks the grooves of its Mercury-nominated predecessor

Other Lives: Rituals review – Radiohead affiliates offer beauty but no surprises

Other Lives and Radiohead have something of a mutual-appreciation thing going on, but this band can’t help suffering in comparison

My Morning Jacket: The Waterfall review – big-canvas country-rock with spellbinding moments

My Morning Jacket’s new album has a warmth that was missing from their last, and Jim James’ voice sounds spellbindingly gorgeous

Django Django: Born Under Saturn review – wonder and dread on indie-electro band’s second album

It might not have the sheer impact of their debut, but there’s no diminution in the quality of songwriting on Django Django’s second album

Mumford & Sons: Wilder Mind review – more anodyne and generic than ever

They’ve shed the banjos, the neckerchiefs and the campfire stomping – and come up with something even more flat, beige and ordinary

Speedy Ortiz: Foil Deer review – unoriginal retro musings

Likable Sadie Dupuis and co sadly fail to transcend her record collection

Passion Pit: Kindred review – songs of sorrow bulldozed by chaotic production

The consequences of a confessional interview given by Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos inform his new album, but it’s not easy to get to the heart of it

Amber Run: 5AM review – anthemic pop-rockers take on the mainstream

Unoriginal but sweetly palatable, Amber Run’s debut suggests a young band with an eye on major mainstream success

Stealing Sheep: Not Real review – strange music full of big questions

These fantastical, wildly colourful musical imaginings about the future and the universe are beautiful and disconcerting

Villagers: Darling Arithmetic review – delicate love songs that lack emotion

Conor O’Brien’s songs about love and anxiety are too flimsy to make a real impression