CHARLY BLISS Forever (Lucky Number) — Five years have passed since the last Charly Bliss album, and that is like a lifetime for the sort of bright, brash, youthful pop blast the band creates. When songs are made to accompany defiant slams of locker doors, leaving too much time between offerings can be dangerous business. On Forever, the band hasn’t so much grown up as settled into more certainty about their approach. They joyfully ragged edges that could show up on their earlier songs are most hemmed up here. Eva Hendricks, the Josie belting the lyrics in front of these Pussycats, remains as offhandedly charismatic as ever, luring the listener in as a conspirator on the tangy powerhouse “Calling You Out.” There is plentiful playfulness to be found, as in the cheerleader-chant rhythms of “Back There Now,” but Charly Bliss are also committed to stretching the form they shape here. “I Don’t Know Anything” has enough steely buzz to recall the Breeders when Tanya Donelly was still in the fold, and “Here Comes the Darkness” reaches for the epic. If the pop isn’t perfect, it sure is potent. Pledge eternal gratitude for the following cuts: “Tragic,” “I’m Not Dead,” “Waiting for You,” and “Last First Kiss.”

WISHY Triple Seven (Winspear) — Like most bands, Wishy are a clear product of the music that raised them. Hailing from Indianapolis, the group members grew up bathed in the firehose blasts of Midwestern emo bands, and their debut full-length, Triple Seven, is full of tracks that echo the noisy, forlorn power-pop blasts of their forbears. What distinguishes Wishy is the way their callbacks has a fresh smack of the new. The title cut’s crunching guitars are met with a tender, sweet pop sensibility that has a kinship to Beabadoobee’s latest work. Mainly, though, luxuriant loudness prevails, whether in the proper punk clatter of “Game,” the shoegaze-y wash of guitars on “Honey,” or the grunged-up “Spit.” Wishy are adept enough at experimenting with sonic textures to earn comparisons to Cocteau Twins, albeit a more earthbound version, on the cut “Just Like Sunday.” If they’re walking paths that other bands have read well, Wishy does it a way that makes it clear they’re seeing the landscape from a new perspective. In addition to those already mentioned, try your luck with these tracks: “Sick Sweet,” “Love on the Outside,” and “Busted.”