When Julia Wolf came up on my radar recently, I initially wasn’t sure where my interest would fall. Would she be just another indie-pop girl playing at being edgy with distressed industrialcore font on her website and a public Tumblr? I didn’t know if I could deal with another one of those, Gen Z’s answer to repurposed teenage nostalgia when they’re barely out of their teens.

Before I listened to even a single track there was an unfounded generalization forming in my brain. Not my finest moment, sure, but there’s a lot of style without substance out there. It’s one thing to have a distinct image; it’s another to back it up. Then I heard “Kill You Off,” the opener from Wolf’s newest album PRESSURE which dropped in May, and I realized I’d been very, very wrong.

If I was tasked with remakin

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