The Murlocs

True to their garage blues roots, the Murlocs play with a straightforward swagger but also show an eager willingness to mix up styles and influences with each record they release. Made up of members of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and ORB among others, the band started off making stripped-down rock & roll on their 2014 debut Loopholes; future albums found them stretching the limits of garage, adding production polish on 2017's Old Locomotive, and by the time of 2021's Bittersweet Demons, crafting a piano-led set of melancholy and introspective rockers. Their ability to mix...