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Jake Bugg at Glastonbury 2014 review – festival favourite still has a way to go

The Nottingham phenomenon has been rushed up the bill, but is showing an unfortunate fondness for boogie-woogie filler, writes Mark Beaumont

Wolf Alice at Glastonbury 2014 review – melodic and savage

Guitar rock's new hope attack indie music with ferociousness, producing sweet-toothed tunes doused in acidic bitterness, writes Mark Beaumont

Fat White Family at Glastonbury 2014 review – carefree caterwauling

Their devil-may-care attitude masks a talent for doom-laden rock'n'roll dirge-mongering, writes Lanre Bakare

Elbow at Glastonbury 2014 review – Garvey sings the soundtrack to sunset

Indie's old-timers greet Glastonbury open-armed, swelling from festival hold music into a far greater, less formulaic prospect

Jungle at Glastonbury 2014 review – attention-grabbing futurist soul

If their laser-honed indie R&B felt too precise, Jungle showed enough invention and energy to get a massive crowd moving, writes Gwilym Mumford

The War on Drugs at Glastonbury 2014 review – escapism and wide horizons

The sight of the sun for the first time today enhances the set's sense of ecstatic ascent, writes Dorian Lynskey

The Phantom Band: Strange Friend review – shape-shifting mix of folk, rock, electronica and more

The Phantom Band's first album since 2010 veers all over the place stylistically, occasionally coming together in truly joyous fashion, writes Jon Dennis

The The: Soul Mining reissue review – a brilliant and idiosyncratic pop album

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

Camden Crawl review – less buzz, more original spirit

Lack of star billing cut the queues to reveal a cornucopia of underground talent at this year's edition of the Camden mainstay, writes Mark Beaumont

The Antlers: Familiars review – introspective but controlled leftfield melancholia

Brooklyn's Antlers are as mournful as ever on their fourth album, but add a new, vaguely jazz-influenced layer to their sound, writes Jon Dennis

Happyness: Weird Little Birthday review – charming UK slacker-rock

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

Peter Matthew Bauer: Liberation! review – Walkmen bassist’s mysterious solo album

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

Echo and the Bunnymen review – sighing against the dying of the light

The epic swagger is subdued as the indie icons tour their latest, fan-funded album. But the 80s classics still impress, writes Ian Gittins

Parquet Courts: Sunbathing Animal review – twitchy garage-rock tales

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

Royal Blood review – switch off and bathe in the fuzz

Subtle they're not, but the British two-piece batter the audience into submission with monster riffs and bloodthirsty drum-smacking, writes Lachlan Marks

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