A far cry from the cool, calculated distance familiar to the indie-rock sphere, Florry — the Philly-bred septet and songwriting vehicle of bandleader Francie Medosch — are marking their territory as a band resolving to do something very different: they are having a really good time out there.

Cutting her teeth in the Philadelphia DIY scene starting in 2019 as a student at Temple University, Medosch spent the end of her teenage years releasing lo-fi bedroom recordings tinged with country melancholy. A lot has changed since then. The project snowballed into a barn-burning seven-piece rock band, and without sacrificing any of the emotional immediacy of Medosch's brashly earnest, bleeding-heart lyrical style, you're unlikely to find her lingering on the melancholy these days.

Their 2023 full-length debut The Holey Bible (via Dear Life) found Medosch flanked by six bandmates and trafficking in a wider, more rock-oriented approach, earning acclaim from Pitchfork, Stereogum, Paste, and Brooklyn Vegan and a run supporting Kurt Vile. On their winkingly titled second LP, Sounds Like…, the band ups the ante with a bigger, brighter, more abrasive sound closer to Rolling Thunder Revue-era Bob Dylan than their humble DIY roots — blending raw honky-tonk grit and rich instrumental textures with the disarming sincerity of their lo-fi beginnings. It's a record about searching: for home, for love, for meaning, and for a sound that captures it all.