Britain’s Sunday Times that rock music has “reached a dead end,” but the Orwells might disagree. Since emerging in 2012, the Illinois rock traditionalists have possessed all the qualities necessary for greatness, but have yet to overcome their own suburban sensibilities. (See the band’s breakout single, “Mallrats (La La La).”) Last month they released two new tracks from their forthcoming release, Terrible Human Beings: “Buddy,” a punchy nugget of proto-punk that’s less Ty Segall and more Midwestern grit, and “They Put a Body in the Bayou,” a swampy Eric Burdonesque stomper. It may be too soon to tell, but perhaps on Terrible Human Beings the Orwells will outgrow their current role as masterful imitators of rock ’n’ roll’s finest moments. WILLIAM KENNEDY