Gladie is the indie rock outfit led by Augusta Koch, who grew up in the Poconos and moved to Philadelphia after high school, fronting the beloved local punk trio Cayetana between 2011 to 2019. On the first Gladie album, 2020’s Safe Sins, Koch unpacked the feelings of grief and isolation that resulted from the group’s dissolution over introspective, lo-fi arrangements. It followed the 2018 Everyone Is Taking But You EP, a collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Matt Schimellfenig, to whom Koch is now engaged. But the pandemic brought even more big shifts: Koch was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, and she quit alcohol.

With a five-piece lineup that also includes guitarist Pat Conaboy, bassist Dennis Mishko, and drummer Miles Ziskind, she was able to explore the well of feeling that had suddenly opened up: “The way I feel, I could fill the ocean/ When the wave comes crashing in, it said I’m not a fixed thing,” she sings on ‘Born Yesterday’, an early single from their sophomore album Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out, which is out today. The result is their most dynamic and expressive record to date, fuelled as much by anxiety and fear as it is by love and a rejuvenated sense of self. At the end of a never-ending cycle, standing at the precipice of change, Koch seems to find her grounding. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.