Joanna Gruesome – review
The violently melodic thrashers find the audience's happy place, writes Mark Beaumont
Marijuana Deathsquads: Oh My Sexy Lord – review
This genre-busting voyage hurls in everything from dark psychedelic electronic drum'n'bass to pastoral progressive rock, writes Dave Simpson
East India Youth: Total Strife Forever – review
East India Youth's William Doyle is like a James Blake you don't want to pack off to national service, writes Tim Jonze
James Vincent McMorrow: Post Tropical – review
The Irish singer-songwriter's second album is woozy, beautiful and sentimental, writes Harriet Gibsone
Maroon 5/Robin Thicke – review
Music's current 'sexiest' men handle the label differently: Robin Thicke seems lost while Maroon 5's Adam Levine sends himself up, writes Dave Simpson
September Girls: Cursing the Sea – review
Something sleek and sinewed runs through the harmonies and reverb-doused distortion of September Girls' songs, writes Hermione Hoby
Patterns: Waking Lines – review
The Manchester quartet's debut album is a woozy collection of dazed vocals and lysergic melodies, writes Ally Carnwath
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks: Wig Out at Jagbags – review
It does sound a bit like a bunch of hipster dads messing about in the garage, but Stephen Malkmus's latest still has some great moments, writes Harriet Gibsone
I Break Horses: Chiaroscuro – review
Maria Linden's second album is weighed down by over-complicated arrangements, but its peppier moments have a lot of appeal, writes Maddy Costa
Patterns: Waking Lines – review
Caroline Sullivan: Head-turning electronica debut melding distortion, dreampop – and minds. At times derivative but watch this woozy space
September Girls: Cursing the Sea – review
Michael Hann: Not so much drawing from the fuzz reverb well as standing at the bottom of it, this Irish quartet spark, but intermittently
Future Bible Heroes: Memories of Love, Eternal Youth, and Partygoing – review
The three albums from Magnetic Fields frontman Stephen Merritt's other band are too unvaried to be fully enjoyable, but do have their highlights, writes Maddy Costa
Tim Burgess – review
Burgess takes captivating ownership of songs penned with Lambchop's Kurt Wagner, writes Mark Beaumont
Two Door Cinema Club – review
Two Door Cinema Club's old-fashioned rise to stadium stardom shows that unbridled exhilaration can be more important to success than any amount of hype, writes Ian Gittins
Bright Eyes: A Christmas Album – review
Conor Oberst's delicate, dishevelled Christmas album was a bit of an indie novelty when it first appeared 11 years ago, but today it all just sounds faintly infuriating, writes Harriet Gibsone