S.E. Ward, Dear Blanca, Jenny Besetzt

S.E. Ward casts her haunted vocals in varying roles for each song, as shape-shifting guitars change the mood from nervy indie rock to shimmering shoegaze. Jenny Besetzt, meanwhile, pulses and throbs, its dancy post-punk somehow simultaneously dreamy and dark. Gown makes a rare appearance with orchestral doom and furious, feminist punk, while Dear Blanca’s ragged, emotional vocals threaten to tear their own power-pop songs apart at their frayed, folksy seams.