It’s been richly rewarding for fans of Welsh rock band The Joy Formidable to see the group evolve from album to album. For most, that journey began in 2011 with debut album The Big Roar (though prior EP A Balloon Called Moaning is now available to U.S. audiences on Spotify), a record that lived up to its title via arena-ready riffs, fist-pumping anthems, and an affecting emotional through-line that leant an aura of intimacy to the larger-than-life sound. Two years later, the band delved into more complex song arrangements on Wolf’s Law, while singer-guitarist Ritzy Bryan’s vocals seemed to occupy a more confident, central place in the music. (As she put it in an interview with The A.V. Club at the time, the “sheer amount of playing” together they’d done since the first release tightened their musical chops considerably.) And while 2016’s Hitch was an arduously conceived attempt to capture the band’s electric live sound, the latest release is an even more ambitious effort.