The Ophelias are no newcomers, but they’re probably about to get discovered by a whole bunch of new fans. The Cincinnati band has been releasing music for a decade, going back their 2015 debut album, Creature Native, and their forthcoming full-length is the fourth overall. What’s sure to earn the new disc added attention is the presence of Julien Baker as producer, part of that particular genius boy’s impressively busy victory lap run in the afterglow of the sensational success of The Record that she released with her supergroup pals. Baker’s not exactly swooping in either. She has been happily in the Ophelias’ orbit going back at least to their 2021 single “Neil Young on High.”

If Baker’s imprimatur gets a few more ears on the Ophelias’ music, that is a very good thing indeed. “Salome” is brisk, meaty indie rock that takes its title from the biblical story about the Jewish princess who settled a grudge against John the Baptist by successfully demanding that his severed head be brought to her. Given the treatment that women have received for millennia in various global cultures, that gruesome, violent retribution almost seems like a model of reasonable restraint.

Spring Grove, the new album from the Ophelias, is scheduled for release in April.