Really From: Really From

If deciphering self is the ethos driving Really From, the band’s main objective is amour-propre. The group’s name, the result of a restructuring in 2018, is derived from a question often aimed at its mixed-race members: “Where are you really from?” On the Boston emo/math-rock quartet’s exuberant third album, this invasive inquiry is ambitiously dissected at every turn. “If you ask me where I’m from/I’ll say the rage, the lights, the sea,” co-lead singer and guitarist Chris Lee-Rodriguez yowls on the anthemic chorus of “I’m From Here,” the album’s thorny crux. It’s a catharsis that carries an electric charge.