Worriers frontperson Lauren Denitzio is one of punk’s keenest songwriters. Their anthems are packed with pith that rings painfully true. On the exemplary “Future Me,” from 2017’s Survival Pop, they go looking for a special someone’s old place only to find developers have beaten them there. “Like a friend you can’t forgive but then forgot,” Denitzio sings “Your house is on Your Neighborhood’s Next Top Parking Lot.” This is what heartbreak is really like. It doesn’t attack us in a vacuum, and we can’t stay in a dark room forever. We have to drag ourselves through dazed days in a world razed by people who barely even care about one another, let alone buildings full of memories. We still have songs, though. And they’re still beautiful.

by Chris Stamm