The Phantom Band's first album since 2010 veers all over the place stylistically, occasionally coming together in truly joyous fashion, writes Jon Dennis
Alexis Petridis: The The's first album, which dropped out of sight after release, was later acclaimed as a masterpiece. This reissue is richly deserved
Following the likes of Mazes and Yuck, here's another British band making a fuzzy, US-indebted indie-rock racket really rather well, writes Michael Hann
The former Walkmen bass player delivers a delicate and ambiguous solo debut that contains some lofty ideas – or hints at them anyway, writes Harriet Gibsone
Parquet Courts' latest spins its tales of oddballs and outcasts atop an upbeat, garagey clatter, but could do with a bit more variation, writes Lanre Bakare
Subtle they're not, but the British two-piece batter the audience into submission with monster riffs and bloodthirsty drum-smacking, writes Lachlan Marks