Best New Band

You always know a band is good if it makes you mad that you can’t listen to their whole record yet. By that metric Heaven Honey makes me furious. “Total Abandon,” singer Jordan Gomes-Kuehner’s first single since uprooting from Bloomington, Ind., to Nashville, is an immediately arresting sneer toward male privilege. Gomes-Kuehner carries an effortless cool, bolstered by an undercurrent of mechanical riffs in a sound triangulated somewhere between Karen O, Mazzy Star and Nick Cave. “Tomorrow I’ll Try” goes in a totally different direction, opting for minimalist sounds and emotionally rich vocals over the electronic chug of its predecessor. Both present a fully formed vision of what Heaven Honey can do, and I can’t wait to hear what’s next. LANCE CONZETT

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