One to watch: the Belair Lip Bombs

The Australian quartet’s punchy, hook-packed songs combine immediacy and complexity in a way that recalls the StrokesLush Life, the 2023 debut album by Melbourne four-piece the Belair Lip Bombs, is the kind of punchy, hook-laden rock record that hardly gets made any more, straightforward in sound but borderline unassailable in its construction. Principal songwriter Maisie Everett, formerly of the garage rock trio Clamm, has a singular knack for writing earworm hooks: Lush Life’s firs