Boston rockers Gollylagging are in many ways the Allston Pudding band of this current era. Debuting around the turn of the decade (much like many of the AP staff steering the ship now), the band has slowly drifted from the adenoidal burst of their compellingly youthful early material towards a more robust, and dare we say classicist indie rock slant. You’ll hear Gollylagging talk up the slacker-y end of bands like Teenage Fanclub, Dinosaur Jr. and their ilk outside shows these days, and while there’s definitely plenty of that big guitar feeling moving around, the now-quartet are closing in on their own thing. Something that feels both emotionally resonant and terrifically fuzzbombed.

All of this is to say their latest single “Jackknife” is yet another leap forward. All lurching stop and starts and red-hot distortion squeals that almost recall the gnarly tracks of a Green Line station stop (or maybe its just some carefully layered synths?), the band drapes themselves around Jake Regulbuto’s enigmatic and cyclical prose about a friendship that ended explosively.

“Jackknife” is out now, and there’s a music video too, watch that below.