Coming up: the gigs and albums not to miss in October

Blokes on film: Nottingham duo Sleaford Mods have made a documentary. Photograph: Richard Saker

1 | Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain

Snarling underdogs Sleaford Mods have made a tour film-cum-documentary that pulls as few punches as their songs. London and Nottingham host screenings.

• Doc’N’Roll film festival, London, 3 October, and Nottingham Broadway cinema, 10 October
  

Low, on the road soon. Photograph: Zoran Orli

2 | Low

Intense Minnesotan trio Low bring their latest masterwork, the affecting Ones And Sixes, out for a spin.

• Tour starts Manchester 7 October, ends London 10 October
  

Be seduced by the loverman sounds of Miguel. Photograph: Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images

3 | Miguel

R&B’s most horizontal romancer plays three UK dates. But will there be – ahem - coffee in the morning (as per his summer single)?

• Tour starts London 13 October, ends Manchester 18 October
  

On tour: indie troubadour Ezra Furman Photograph: Andy Sheppard/Redferns via Getty Images

4 | Ezra Furman

Ramshackle genre-hopping troubadour Ezra Furman touts his third solo album of confessionals, Perpetual Motion People.

• Tour starts Belfast 19 October, ends London 22 October
  

Seinabo Sey’s debut is due.

5 | Seinabo Sey

Swedish soul-pop sensation Seinabo Sey has been bubbling under for some time; her debut album Pretend packs big vocals and slick production, with personality.

• Out 23 October
  

Joanna Newsom is back with Divers.

6 | Joanna Newsom

Five years on from Have One on Me, nonpareil harpist Joanna Newsom has promised an 11-track “paranomasaic Liederkreis of harmonic sympathies and knotted hierarchies” on new album Divers.

• Out 23 October
  

Låpsley’s debut album: coming soon on XL. Photograph: PR

7 | Låpsley

Merseyside-born producer-cum-vocalist Holly Lapsley Fletcher road tests songs for her hotly anticipated forthcoming album, expected to arrive in early 2016.

• Tour starts Cambridge 27 October, ends London 4 November
  

El Vy: spin-off project of the National’s Matt Berninger.

8 | El Vy

Anyone missing the dulcet bass rumble of The National’s Matt Berninger needs to hear this side-project’s album Return to the Moon, recorded with Brent Knopf (Menomena, Ramona Falls).

• Out 30 October
  

Guy Garvey: new solo lp. Photograph: Danny Payne/Rex Shutterstock

9 | Guy Garvey

Elbow frontman and burgeoning national treasure Guy Garvey has siphoned off songs that weren’t quite ‘Elbow’ off into a solo album Courting The Squall.

• Out 30 October
  

Patti Smith. Photograph: Walter Bieri/AP

10 | Patti Smith

The coolest woman in rock plays her seminal 1975 album Horses for two nights only.

• Roundhouse, London October 30 and 31