Andrew Hamilton: Joy review – Charting direct line to beginnings

Six works on album sounds disarmingly home-spun

Phil Manzanera: Diamond Head review – A lost gem

Manzanera was eager to experiment with styles in a way Roxy Music could not

This Heat: the band who came in from the cold

Bullen and Hayward are the missing link between prog/kraut rock and post-punk

Paul Weller gets back to his creative best on A Kind Revolution

The Unthanks: the light and the dark of English folk music

The group have been singing the canon for a decade – but what happens now that they are making their own music?

Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt: Musical maverick

Review: The reader is left with the sense of having borne witness to an extraordinary life

Why Robert Wyatt’s wife Alfie is his most important collaborator

Wyatt has worked with Brian Eno, David Gilmour, Paul Weller and Björk, but Alfreda Benge is his artistic other half, argues biographer Marcus O’Dair

Swept up by Alt-J’s wave

The Leeds quartet are living up to their Mercury prize-winning pedigree