The World is a Beautiful Place… | Mon 5 Mar | Asylum | £12
Post-rock indie maestros The World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die – perhaps unsurprisingly – sound at odds with their name nowadays, turning their stunningly cinematic rock into a bracingly vitriolic weapon, raging against the current age and making arguably the best music of their career. Despite the gloom, TWIABP are punching upwards, and bringing everyone with them. asylumvenue.co.uk

Superorganism | Mon 5 Mar | O2 Institute | £11.50
From their glitchy, deliberately-overdone music videos to their deadpan, quirky delivery, to the sound of a track getting sampled and re-sampled into itself like some collapsing kaleidoscopic vortex: Superorganism are undoubtedly a band of the internet age, a buzz-story personified. Come see the hype and embrace the moment. See our full preview here.

Gwenno | Thu 8 Mar | Hare & Hounds | £11
Dreamy, retrofuturist pop delivered with an irresistible but subversive charm: that would be Gwenno Saunders, the sultry electronic songstress who wooed many a heart with 2015’s ‘Y Dydd Olaf’. There’s a lot going on beneath the dreamy aural fog: give Gwenno a chance to sneak inside your ears and your brain, and pretty soon she’ll be tugging the strings of your heart. See our full preview here.

Plaid | Sat 10 Mar | Hare & Hounds | £13.20
Nearly sold out – so be quick. Warp Records legends Plaid have been going for 25 years now, making dreamy, melodic and rhythmically intense dance music like the 90s never ended. 2016’s ‘The Digging Remedy’ is still as playful, soulful and intoxicating as the duo has always been – and a chance to see them construct their hallucinogenic algorithms live can’t be missed. skiddle.com

Mahalia | Sat 10 Mar | Castle & Falcon | £11
Leicester’s R&B songstress Mahalia caught some deserved attention last year with ‘Sober’ – a note-perfect blend of remorse and resolve set to a backdrop that’s pure Fugees – and she’s not stayed still since, with a string of killer singles refining her approach. You can expect to be hearing much more from Mahalia this year. seetickets.com

Tom Misch | Sun 11 Mar | O2 Institute | SOLD OUT
Though Tom Misch rose to internet prominence by way of offbeat, Dilla-inspired instrumentals that kept his identity pretty hidden, he’s gradually stepped forward, letting his jazzy guitar noodling and eventually his vocals take the front seat. The one-time bedroom producer is now selling out solo shows: a testament to the charm of his feel-good, go-with-your-gut grooves. See our full preview here.