ABRAMS’ Blue City is where genre-defying heaviness and perfect melodic songcraft converge.

ABRAMS blast a cathartic mix of catchy, driving rhythms, soaring vocals and ethereal ambiance into the heavy music landscape. Fusing melody and dissonance, guitarist/vocalist Zach Amster, bassist/vocalist Taylor Iversen, drummer Ryan DeWitt and guitarist Graham Zander wield elements of heavy rock, shoegaze, grunge and post-metal with ease and fluency, creating a crystalline heaviness that’s bittersweet and nostalgic yet also gazes forward.

The Denver band’s arresting sound finds them sharing terrain with the likes of Torche and Cave-In, while their penchant for crunchy, irresistibly hooky riffs recalls alt-rock icons Hum and Quicksand. Even so, their swirling meld of influences isn’t the totality of ABRAMS.

New album Blue City is a sojourn through lush, cinematic passages and contemplative psychedelia. Its lyrics describe a metaphorical