Kevin Bronson on August 29th, 2011

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Australian four-piece the Jezabels got our attention at SXSW, and it wasn’t singer Hayley Mary’s leather jacket. The quartet deals in layered, arena-ready rock anthems, with Mary wailing as if she want to be heard clear from Down Under. Which, thanks to the band’s three well-received EPs, she might be. The band is working on its debut full-length, “Prisoner,” and the arching single “Endless Summer” rings with a sense of isolation and longing you’ve heard dozens of rock bands iterate before – and, when it’s done like this, don’t mind hearing again.

||| Download: “Endless Summer”

||| Live: The Jezabels play Nov. 8 at the Echo