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Sai Boddupalli (Courtesy Nick DiNatale) In the closing moments of Mercet’s “Mirst,” a recording of a man speaking fades into the lush, melancholic harmony of strings. “There are two parts associated with our self beyond the senses: The mind, and the intellect.” He continues: “If the mind is still, the senses are still; if the intellect is still, everything is still.” It’s the voice of Dr. Sekhar Boddupalli, a biochemist, Hindu spiritual leader and father of Sai Boddupalli, the Boston-based multi-instrumentalist and producer who now makes music as Mercet. Mercet (Courtesy Nick ...

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,â€...

Left to right: Maya Mortman, Amy Hoffman, Daniel Radin and Colby Blauvelt of Future Teens. (Courtesy Adam Parshall) There’s a number of things that could define Boston’s breakthrough “bummer pop” quartet Future Teens: Their reverence of pop classics, their grindstone, DIY ambition, the wave of buzzworthy cover compilations with their names attached. But to its members, Future Teens is a sort of endless riff of their name, a slight piece of performance art. Listen to the first four tracks on the group’s new melodically polished EP “Deliberately Alive” (out now) and you’ll not...