Melbourne’s Between You & Me cherry-pick the best parts of pop punk and combine them into one catchy whole. There are rapid-fire beats and textural, intertwining guitar lines (“Dakota”); a heartwarming sense of nostalgia (“Friends From ’96”); brutal breakdowns (“Deadbeat”); early-2000s summer anthems (“Nevermind”); and, best of all, earworm choruses and sing-alongs (every song). Relationships lie at the heart of many of vocalist Jake Wilson’s lyrics, whether he’s cataloguing the end of a romance (“Kill My Vibe”, “In the Middle”) or a friendship (the venomous “Twice Shy”, in which he rages, “How do you still think we’re friends/You never called to make amends”). “Friends From ’96”, meanwhile, takes a far more warm-hearted look at now defunct childhood friendships (“Just a picture to show all the times that we had/And I’ll keep it framed in my head”). The singer casts the net a little wider on “Go to Hell” (featuring Yours Truly’s Mikaila Delgado), in which he sings of his frustration at society’s fascination with celebrities and influencers while ignoring issues around the environment and sustainability. That Between You & Me make such a serious issue into an unforgettable anthem is, of course, par for the course.