The Way and Color review – Teen’s second album has surprise influences

Supple and sinuous, Teen's second album evokes Haim with a dash of Talking Heads, writes Phil Mongredien

Amphetamine Ballads review – the Amazing Snakeheads fail to amaze

The Glaswegians' early promise remains unfulfilled on a ponderous debut album, writes Phil Mongredien

Thee Oh Sees: Drop review – ‘cheerily psychedelic’

The eighth studio record from this niche but alluring band fairly scampers along, writes Kitty Empire

Thee Oh Sees: Drop review – playful psych-rock cult heroes on top form

John Dwyer and cohorts give up on their supposed hiatus to drop off another set of beautifully broad-palette modern psychedelia, writes Tom Hughes

Ramona Lisa: Arcadia review – beguiling side-project from Chairlift singer

Chairlift's Caroline Polachek recorded this solo album on the road, and even in the air, and it's an organic, experimental pleasure, writes Tim Jonze

The Amazing Snakeheads: Amphetamine Ballads review – menace and confidence from Glaswegian rock villains

Alexis Petridis: It takes skill to make this kind of ominous menace convincing on record, and indeed, the Amazing Snakeheads' debut is a suitably intense listen

Elbow review – A triumph of steady charm, finely crafted

Riding high with their hit album The Take Off and Landing of Everything, Elbow's shrewdly anthemic indie rock aspires to connect with bigger issues, writes Malcolm Jack

Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks: Enter the Slasher House review – passable indie, but don’t give up the day jobs

A middling foray down the supergroup route for Avey Tare, with the odd flash of brilliance, says Phil Mongredien

Avey Tare’s Slasher House: Enter the Slasher House review – hit-and-miss Animal Collective side-project

Avey Tare's new solo album is not so far from Animal Collective's weird, hazy art-pop, but it's a mixed bag, writes Lanre Bakare

Paul Thomas Saunders: Beautiful Desolation review – epic, widescreen pop-rock of the old school

Paul Thomas Saunders harks back to the windswept, furrowed-brow rock acts of the 1980s, but there's more beauty than bombast to his sound, writes Dave Simpson

Kaiser Chiefs: Education, Education, Education & War review – serious intentions but lightweight sounds

The Kaiser Chiefs return with intentions of political comment and anti-war rhetoric, but the music just can't carry the weight, writes Harriet Gibsone

Cloud Nothings: Here and Nowhere Else review – brash, heads-down garage-rock fun

Dylan Baldi's latest album is brash, heads-down garage rock (almost) all the way, with enough fun and immediacy to keep things interesting, writes Lanre Bakare

Mac DeMarco: Salad Days review – rising star of slacker-rock plays up his weird side

Alexis Petridis: It's hard to tell if Mac DeMarco is a merry prankster or a tortured soul, but either way, his third album is likely to keep winning him new fans

Singles review – Future Islands are ‘immensely listenable eccentrics’

Kitty Empire: Future Islands are far more idiosyncratic than their polished sound lets on

Future Islands: Singles review – evangelical, overwrought AOR

Its overwrought emotions may be too much for some, but there's an undeniable vigour to Future Islands' new album, writes Harriet Gibsone