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PinkPantheress: Fancy That review – sharp-minded bops hop across pop’s past and present

Denigrated by some as the epitome of attention-deficit youth, the English pop musician became huge nonetheless – and her latest has an inspiringly free-associative feel

Model/Actriz: Pirouette review – ​sweat-spattered New Yorkers are the stuff of adoring cult fandom

Inspired by Mariah and Kylie but full of jackhammer rhythms and noise, the quartet’s second album could attract a big following

Beyoncé review – ever-evolving star kicks off electrifying Cowboy Carter tour

The singer delivers a rousing, seven-act spectacle as she performs many of her country songs on stage for the first time while also harking back to her previous dance-leaning era

The Flaming Lips review – stops and starts make this too much of a good thing

With lengthy Wayne Coyne anecdotes and frequent interruptions for stage effects to be brought on and off, there was an awful lot of time during the Lips’s two-and-three-quarter hour show when nothing was happening

Maria Somerville: Luster review – a vivid and vital entry in the shoegaze revival

The Irish artist’s folk-inflected sound is both unnerving and alluring on her luxuriant second album

Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman review – maximalist pop for an age of uncertainty

After her big breakthrough album and West End fame, Rebecca Lucy Taylor works through her worries in real time on her new LP – to fascinating and confusing effect

Self Esteem review – straight outta Gilead

A triumphant staging by Rebecca Lucy Taylor of her new album, A Complicated Woman, is part artistic statement, part power pop club night

Davido: 5ive review – flashes of Afropop excellence

The Nigerian superstar’s vocal prowess and smooth beats have their moments on his latest album, but at 17 tracks it could use an edit

Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz review – a sparkling solo debut

The TV on the Radio frontman’s sharp pop instincts kick in on a multifaceted synth-punk-funk set born out of deep personal loss

Post Malone at Coachella review – chameleonic megastar wows in the desert

The 29-year-old singer travelled through his genre-shifting back catalogue in a charming and energetic 90-minute headliner set

Green Day at Coachella review – fun but muddled set pokes fun at American Idiots

The weekend’s legacy headliner offered some cathartic punk pop rebellion but the awkward setlist lacked coherence and thought

Bon Iver: Sable, Fable review – Justin Vernon’s most easy-going record yet

This companion album to last year’s Sable EP gives those sorrowful songs a soulful lift, with Vernon’s beautiful falsetto vocals to the fore

Valerie June: Owls, Omens and Oracles review – a soul-recharging exercise in radical positivity

The Tennessee singer-songwriter’s joyful new album pushes back against the bleakness of doomscrolling

Pulp: Spike Island review – Jarvis Cocker and co’s joyous second coming

The anthemic lead single from the band’s first album in 24 years casts a wary eye over their peak 90s fame – but also suggests that performing is irresistible

2hollis: Star review – sounds like the internet and bound for stardom

An underground phenomenon since his teenage years, Hollis Frazier-Herndon feels like a male Charli xcx about to take off

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  • Djo review – Joe Keery mixes genres in an endearing, if uneven, Brooklyn set
  • Brahms: Complete Symphonies album review – period-instrument plushness with modern-instrument refinement
  • PinkPantheress: Fancy That review – sharp-minded bops hop across pop’s past and present
  • The Excursions of Mr Brouček review – Simon Rattle embraces Janáček’s baffling but beautiful opera
  • BBCNOW/MacMillan/Childs review – James MacMillan’s nostalgic celebration of the euphonium
  • Pimpinone review – hot-to-trot comic opera from the underperformed Telemann
  • Britten Sinfonia/Sinfonia Smith Square review – quiet fervour and formal grace
  • Jenny Hval: Iris Silver Mist review – intoxicating tribute to the emotive pull of memory
  • Sun-Mi Hong: Fourth Page: Meaning of a Nest review – storytelling and adventure from feted Korean jazz composer
  • Elgar: The Kingdom review – respectful and admirable, but this is still a work hard to love
  • Kurtág: Játékok review – Aimard is perfect guide to major set of piano miniatures
  • Model/Actriz: Pirouette review – ​sweat-spattered New Yorkers are the stuff of adoring cult fandom
  • Carducci Quartet review – terror and tumult as Shostakovich focus widens
  • Kendrick Lamar and SZA review – powerhouse duo make their mark in Atlanta
  • Beyoncé review – ever-evolving star kicks off electrifying Cowboy Carter tour
  • RPO/Petrenko review – a blistering, multi-hued Shostakovich
  • The Flaming Lips review – stops and starts make this too much of a good thing
  • LPO/Gardner review – no recording could match the visceral thrill of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony live
  • Maria Somerville: Luster review – a vivid and vital entry in the shoegaze revival
  • Zoé Basha: Gamble review – confident debut of a deft new voice in folk
  • Hallelujah Junction album review – two-piano journey through 20th-century Americana
  • Circa/LPO/Gardner review – Exhilarating, exquisite and extraordinary as Ravel melds with acrobatics
  • Nicola Benedetti: Beethoven’s Violin Concerto album review – warm and deliciously playful throughout
  • Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman review – maximalist pop for an age of uncertainty
  • Central Cee review – UK rap superstar tentatively enjoys stadium success
  • Idris Ackamoor Ankhestra, Rhodessa Jones, Danny Glover: Artistic Being review – powerful live set from the Afrofuturist and friends
  • Self Esteem review – straight outta Gilead
  • The week in classical: Khovanshchina; Carmen review – the parallels with modern Russia are unmissable
  • Lang Lang review – captivating, astonishing and disorientating
  • Davido: 5ive review – flashes of Afropop excellence

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