Pop

Albums of the week: Tortoise, Tame Impala, Miguel, Emma Rawicz

Nine years after their last album, Chicago-born quintet Tortoise prove they’re as supple and inventive as ever

Lily Allen’s comeback album is the lament of a ‘nonmonogamummy’

On her latest album West End Girl, the singer details the breakdown of an unevenly open marriage

Albums of the week: Bruce Springsteen, Sudan Archives, The Last Dinner Party, Laura Jurd

The full-band Nebraska ’82 edition is a fascinating alternative reality

Patti Smith in her prime

Fifty years after the release of her wild and swaggering record, Horses, the spirited singer has more gravitas than ever

Reviews: The Necks, Cheikh Lô, Jay Som, Charles Lloyd

The trio’s 20th album, Disquiet, is three hours long – a maximal, mantric work that stands out in the modern attention economy

Lady Gaga’s fever dream

Showcasing her latest album, Mayhem, the US star unleashes an extravaganza of camp absurdity, then strips it all away

Geese, Richard Ashcroft, Marta, Jacob Collier

Geese’s Getting Killed is a knockout full of swagger and tunes you can sing along to

Is Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl her happiest album yet?

The star follows her lovelorn previous album with a set of punchy, clear-eyed odes to joy

Robert Plant with Suzi Dian, Cardi B, Cate Le Bon, Joy Crookes, Ala.Ni

Saving Grace is an engrossing excavation of musical roots

Jim Legxacy – the rise of an unconventional rapper

At 26, Legxacy is three mixtapes and the same number of live gigs into a fresh, fidgety body of work that draws on his south-east London upbringing and personal tragedy

Albums of the week: Kieran Hebden and William Tyler, Kojey Radical, Wednesday and L’Antidote

Hebden, aka Four Tet, and Tyler reunite on an elegant, undefinable record that up-ends expectations

Jade, Ed Sheeran, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Mulatu Astatke

The former Little Mix star’s new album shimmers with her post-Simon Cowell pop nous and vocal range

The Tubs – an indie band for a post-indie landscape

The Welsh rock band operate on a shoestring, making brilliant, life-enhancing music without a publicity machine

Albums of the week: David Byrne, Sabrina Carpenter, SL, Harold López-Nussa

The former Talking Heads frontman’s latest solo effort finds him with an eyebrow arched, revelling in life’s absurdities

Gorillaz stun in star-studded show of lush visuals and borderless music

Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett revisit their 2010 album Plastic Beach to mark 25 years of their virtual band

Guedra Guedra, Margo Price, Blood Orange, Brigitte Beraha and the Lucid Dreamers

Electro-acoustic producer Guedra Guedra is on a mission to decolonise dance music

The rise and rise of Chappell Roan

The US star becomes ever more unconventional in a bravura show in Edinburgh

Albums of the week: Earl Sweatshirt, Mac DeMarco, Wolf Alice, Blake Mills & Pino Palladino

The rapper’s new record Live Laugh Love points to his characteristically wry humour, but finds him in a more mellow frame of mind