Eddie Chacon: Sundown review – delightful career renaissance for former one-hit wonder

The 59-year-old singer of Charles & Eddie fame is back with a second album of tightly written melodies and abstract tracks that draw you in to a rich, heady world

Mo’Ju: Oro, Plata, Mata review – ambitious neo-soul takes on capitalism and catastrophe

The Filipino Wiradjuri rapper’s tightly written fourth album shows an artist entering the prime of their career

Yazmin Lacey: Voice Notes review – songs to love and savour

The Nottingham-based artist’s debut album delivers a seamless mix of jazz, soul and electronica

Ravyn Lenae: Hypnos review – the boundless possibilities of the night

Lenae’s breathy falsetto wields lightness like a superpower in this glimmering sonic galaxy of a debut album

Say She She: Prism review – boundary-busting discodelic soul

The Brooklyn trio conspire to produce an idiosyncratic album that ranges from drum-machine funk to small-hours sublimity

Bruce Springsteen: Only the Strong Survive review – the Boss plays it safe

This new album of old soul covers is warm and enjoyable, but leaves you wishing it had gone a little deeper

Erykah Badu review – an exhilarating moment in a star’s eccentric orbit

The influential R&B singer bends past hits into fresh shapes and throws down covers in dizzying variety at the Southbank to celebrate 25 years since her debut

Ezra Collective: Where I’m Meant to Be review – brilliant follow-up from the inventive party band

This sophisticated second album from the five instrumentalists could just see them cross over to the big league

Gabriels review – brooding gospel soul with a shimmy and a stomp

The rising pop trio bring a cinematic quality to their live show, driven by charismatic vocalist Jacob Lusk, veering between moodiness and euphoria

Gabriels: Angels and Queens Part One review – could this be the album of the year?

Frontman Jacob Lusk is nothing short of incredible on the trio’s debut album, a powerful half-hour of top-tier songwriting that proves Gabriels are far more than soul revivalists

Durand Jones & the Indications review – soul revivalists at the top of their game

Led by the classic showmanship of their frontman, the Bloomington band wow with a set of disco and Luther Vandross-evoking crowd-pleasers

Kenny Beats: Louie review – brave, hooky, son-to-father reflections

The hip-hop producer’s debut album is affectionately infused with the spirit of his father’s mixtape introductions, along with good splash of obscure 70s soul

John Legend review – soulful grooves, limber moves and slick showmanship

As he enters the Vegas-residency portion of his career, the star undoes some shirt buttons, leans into his sex symbol status and gives the crowd exactly what they came to hear

Diana Ross at Glastonbury review – disco diva detonates explosion of joy

Confidently filling the traditional Sunday ‘legends’ slot at the festival, the fabulously attired Motown and disco star treated the vast crowd to hit after hit

Gladys Knight review – career-spanning set from the empress of soul

The star is in outstanding voice as she pours her whole heart into hits ranging from the Motown era to her 1980s Bond theme