Monster Study, the new eight-song LP from Durham's Effingham, boasts tunes about heartbreak and proletariat solidarity, mass murder and ideological upheaval. The songs themselves swivel from gentle ballads to bracing rock. But they're all united by frontman Jeremy Blair's deftness with hooks, delivered uniformly with his worried rasp. With Melissa Swingle, The Glorious Veins and Magnolia Collective. —Grayson Currin