Kevin Bronson on April 22nd, 2015

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Speedy Ortiz’s eagerly anticipated sophomore album “Foil Deer” came out this week, and it does not disappoint. The Massachusetts indie-rockers — Sadie Dupuis, Darl Ferm, Mike Falcone and new addition Devin McKnight — unleash a primal, fuzzed-out tour de force with some sharp observations on cultural matters, as well as some strong affirmations (“I’m not bossy / I’m the boss,” Dupuis sings on “Raising the Skate”). Not that they’re all serious, though; in director Matthew Caron’s video for “The Graduates,” the band ingests some hallucinogenic candy, meets a big white rabbit and goes our for a night of karaoke.

||| Stream: “Raising the Skate”

||| Live: Speedy Ortiz plays the Echo on May 21 and the Constellation Room on May 22.

||| Previously: A brief encounter at SXSW 2015, “Bigger Party,” live at the El Rey

Photo by Shervin Lainez