DRUG FOR THE MODERN AGE (LP)

The second album from six-piece Kopecky, Drug for the Modern Age takes the many shake-ups the band's endured over the past few years and turns them into inspiration for groove-driven, melody-heavy alt-pop that's intensely emotional and strangely exhilarating. "The album was written in this weird time of so much pain but also happiness, and that really informed the writing and recording," says vocalist/guitarist Gabe Simon, who co-founded the group with vocalist/keyboardist Kelsey Kopecky in 2007. "Our goal was to talk about all these very serious things we were dealing with, but in a way that felt nothing like wallowing and more like standing triumphantly, or even dancing our way through it."