Cheem, Bummer Hill, Equal Creatures

Connecticut-based Cheem’s “Mango Glitch Gum Remix” kicks off like bouncy eight-bit music for a retro video game before becoming an earnest pop tune with soaring choruses and jackhammer hard-rock flourishes. Riding intricate coiling guitars and an insistent melody, Atlanta emo-rockers Bummer Hill launch their ‘City Limit’ EP with the sublime “Isn’t It Strange?” Tilling the same eclectic emo field is fellow Atlanta-based band Equal Creatures, crafting catchy songs about surviving, switching medication and queerness.