The best new music to listen to this week

Here are some of the best new albums and tracks our critics have heard over the past week. We’ll update the list regularly, so make sure you save this page. Feel free to join in the conversation in the comments section at the end with your own recommendations of what you’re listening to at the moment.

Madness
Theatre of the Absurd Presents C’est La Vie
★★★★☆
Ever since a generation of British kids did silly dances around the playground while singing along to Baggy Trousers in the early Eighties, Madness have been hiding sophisticated music under a veneer of carefree abandon.

There are shades of the Kinks’s music hall nostalgia to their latest, a concept album of sorts about the absurdity of the modern age.