Carly Cosgrove

Carly Cosgrove is from Philadelphia, and it shows. The band’s debut, Woah, Just Take It Easy Man., continues a long-standing tradition of starting a band as an escape route from a row home basement. Beyond anchoring their melodrama in an uncertain present — dissecting flavor-of-the-week relationships, wondering if college is just a flopped spinoff of high school — this upstart trio has learned from the city’s overlapping past lives. Built by emo’s kinetic possibilities, sustained by episodic bites of rupture and repair: fueled by soul, man.