Photo by Zoe Hopper

You don’t catch a glimpse of a “Comet” too often in the sky, let alone watch a few of them hit the tar, but even with the happenstance of doing so, Gollylagging can’t seem to catch a break in this life. Over the past year, the Boston underground rockers have really been going through it in every which way. It turns out, that was all building up to a major plot point behind their upcoming debut full-length, Real Life.

With its lead single, the quartet are doing their most to catch others from falling around them just like those damn comets, all while trying to keep their own selves from spreading thin. That’s reckoned with in the listen’s wavering structure — a wonderfully noisy and nearly borderless container of power-pop made out of fuzzed-out guitars and smashed rhythms where nothing seems to stick to the wall aside from the tune. “I’m watching the collapse / I’ll throw it all away,” sings vocalist Jake Regulbuto. If everyone around them is going through it, too, they’re willing to go down with them together if they have to.

Directed by: Andrew Garas and Trent Reeder

Gollylagging’s Real Life will be released October 16th on Disposable America.