Wired for art rock adventure: Lars Karlsson by Song for a Gorgeous Blonde crashes crunchy guitars into Gentle Giant territory with gloriously unresolved results, while Avlägsna förmögenheter peers into distant fortunes with heavily orchestrated hopefulness and dread. Seventeen by Kindness Inc. aches with the wish to travel back in time to every moment someone needed you, and Honesty Doesn't Pay unfolds as a cerebral 11-movement song cycle of heartbreak and absurdist nostalgia. Threefold by Imperial Measures delivers powerful vocals and deeply resonant lyrics across themes of love, loss and politics, while [DIS]COMFORT by Joel Julian blends folk, electronic and noise into a meditation on circular thinking and self-destructive comfort.