Mamalarky – Hover (CD)

With Hover, Mamalarky return with their most expansive and assured record yet-a fourth full-length that finds the Atlanta/Austin/LA quartet pushing their elastic indie-rock sound into stranger, dreamier, and more immersive territory. Following 2025's Hex Key, the band continues to treat genre as a loose suggestion, folding psychedelic flourishes, richly layered guitars, playful rhythms, and Lauren Larkin's coolly expressive vocals into songs that feel both meticulously constructed and wonderfully alive. There's a sense of scale to Hover, but never at the expense of intimacy: melodies drift, collide, and reveal new details with each listen, rewarding the kind of close attention that Mamalarky's music has always invited. The result is a record that feels simultaneously familiar and freshly unpredictable-sun-drenched one moment, beautifully off-kilter the next. Hover captures a band fully in command of it's peculiar, compelling universe, making music that is adventurous without losing it's pop instincts and cerebral without sacrificing joy.