Toy: Join the Dots – review

Toy's second album has its moments of blissed-out cosmic ambition, but too many longueurs between them, writes Ally Carnwath

Ezra Furman: Day of the Dog – review

Ezra Furman's fifth album is a terrific rock'n'roll record that's full of clever, funny touches, writes Michael Hann

Torres: Torres – review

Nasville-based Mackenzie Scott's stark confessionals sound like the first flowerings of a major new talent, writes Dave Simpson

Toy: Join the Dots – review

Toy seem a little torn between droney jams and paisley pop, but they're definitely on the way to somewhere interesting, writes Alexis Petridis

Roddy Frame – review

The Aztec Camera frontman delightfully revisits the life-affirming pop of the band's debut album High Land, Hard Rain, writes Ian Gittins

Shellac – review

What's not to like as hardcore's ideological purism meets tense, economical jams with splurges of darkly sardonic lyrics, asks Malcolm Jack

High-tails – review

The dressing robe-clad slackers' sound is all the cooler for being defiantly unfashionable, writes Chris Martin

White Denim – review

The Texan experimentalists have taken rock'n'roll eclecticism to a point where a new lexicon may be required, writes Mark Beaumont

Money – review

Backed by a terrific band, Money frontman Jamie Lee delivered a performance infused with spirit and spirits in equal measure, writes Dave Simpson

Wooden Shjips: Back to Land – review

West coast psych-rockers Wooden Shjips get a little lighter and brighter on their fourth album, but they're still deeply and delightfully in the zone, writes Tom Hughes

Throwing Muses: Purgatory/Paradise – review

Kristin Hersh's first Throwing Muses album in a decade is a 32-song epic contained within a hardback book, and it's bewitching stuff, writes Dave Simpson

Cults: Static – review

The second album from New York's Cults delivers joyous songs through gritted teeth, and makes good lyrical work of the duo's real-life breakup, writes Dave Simpson