Diverse, irregular, free-spirited: Yo La Tengo’s set for EFG London Jazz Festival was an exhilarating cocktail of their dynamic career and talents.

With the release of DISASTER POP last week, Nukuluk took to the Windmill Brixton to launch their debut EP – supported by a host of exciting newcomers.

Seamless and in sync, Stereolab’s Roundhouse performance exhibited their art rock influence with characteristic ease.

Playing their seminal album IV in full, the German pioneers produced a sermon-like show of mesmerising sound collages, the kind that crowned them as the improvisational krautrock icons in the first place.

Metronomy bring every shade of joy to London’s Colour Factory with a set of ‘indietronica’ greatest hits and more at their prismatic album launch show.

Providing sanctuary from the London gloom, Black Marble soundtracked – what felt like – an 80s coming-of-age romance movie in real time.

Bringing his signature dance-psych sound to Mayfield Depot midweek, Dan Snaith and co. succeeded in hypnotising the renowned rave.

Marling’s unaccompanied voice permeated every inch of the Roundhouse on Friday night, which felt more striking by having been absent from the space for so long.

Meatraffle’s show at Headrow House was an invitation into their haphazard world of politics that evades the seriousness and sneering of most other bands around right now, and had an unpredictable nature that all gigs should have.