Quiet Slang, Abi Reimold

Founder/frontman of Philly quartet Beach Slang, James Alex is a sentimentalist. Everything Matters but No One Is Listening, new from his Quiet Slang project, aggregates from his pop-punk day job’s first two albums while cranking down the volume with a hearty helping of twee. The boisterous, Replacements-inspired cacophony of Alex disappears, swapped out with piano, cello, and the whine-y affectation of the frontman’s vox. – Libby Webster