"All Again." That's the title of the upcoming album from Philadelphia's Queen of Jeans. The LP spans a range that, with the closing vibrato of "Do It All Again," returns to the atmospheric opening seconds of the record. "Thought I'd call tonight, hear how you're dealing," sings Miriam Devora in the opener "All My Friends" in a neon-lit, melancholic tenor, the precise sound of lonely love for a distant lover. The entire band accompanies her in a beautiful nocturnal cradle, but it's all for naught: "The rest of the album follows this relationship as it staggers through loneliness and longing, to elation and joy, to pain and anger, and finally to its misty end, where Devora admits: 'If I could do it all over again, I'd find you there, just like I did back then.'" "all Again," released on Memory Music, is first and foremost an enveloping, rich indie rock album that shifts between sweet 60s pop, gritty 90s alt-rock, expansive and painful emo, and the songwriting and melody of the best acoustic singer-songwriter acts. Devora (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Matheson Glass (lead guitar, piano) have gone to great lengths this time around to create a Queen of Jeans album that reflects, in both sound and structure, the emotional depths they explore. It's the first time since their 2015 debut, "Dig Yourself," that they have a full band at their disposal, with drummer Patrick Wall and bassist Andrew Nitz. While Devora and Glass, on releases like 2022's sparkling lockdown pop album *Hiding In Place*, went into producer and mixer Will Yip's Studio 4 with sketches and collaborated with Yip to arrange the songs in the studio, this time they entered the studio with a complete vision for the record. This allowed them to use their time in the studio to expand the album's sonic boundaries. "We had a lot more room to play with some of the earworms we'd always wanted to explore and to get even crazier in the studio," says Glass. These elements lend a physicality and playfulness to the memories and emotions that unfold in *All Again*. "We're trying to tell the story of looking back on an important relationship," says Glass. "The years go by, and the more you think about it, the more distorted it becomes, and the facts get a little less clear." "We wanted to play with that and make the story surreal." (Quite literally: Listen to a "monster" voice in the already released banger "Karaoke.") The album artwork, conceived by Devora, reflects this idea with chilling clarity. Tracklisting LP: All My Friends, Horny Hangover, Karaoke, Enough to Go Around, Neighbor, Let Me Forge, Books in Be, Bitter Pil, Go Down Easy, Last to Try, Do It All Again