Wildfires’ latest album, Wildfires (Skateland), dropped in 2021; their last Instagram dispatch dates back to the following year. All the more reason to catch the seemingly defunct quartet jangle their way through an early show alongside alt rockers Fehrenbacher, emerging from a yearlong hiatus of their own. Singer/guitarists Gabriel Baldwin and Johanna Heilman weave spacey harmonies in this shoegaze-indebted headlining act, bolstered on record with interludes pulled from real-life UFO sightings. Matt Fehrenbacher leads his self-titled openers with a heavier edge: 2023 single “Skeletin” snarls a dual axe attack, but a singalong melody holds the track together. – Carys Anderson
