Holiday Ghosts are a band that contains multitudes. Give a listen to their upcoming album, Coat of Arms, out March 29 on Fat Cat Records, and several seemingly disparate facets immediately come into focus. Powerful, gut-punch punky garage rock; classic jangly indie pop; songs of protest and resistance; songs that resonate emotion and introspection. The four-piece line-up of Katja Rackin (drums, lead vocals), Sam Stacpoole (lead guitar, vocals), Morgan Lloyd-Mathews (bass), and Ben Nightingale (rhythm guitar, vocals), who came together to hone their skills on the band’s previous album, 2023’s equally kinetic Absolute Reality, have perfected a skin-tight flow that grabs onto the listener and refuses to let go until each brazen lyric and earworm hook has worked itself into their brain. Across its ten tracks, Coat of Arms marries the band’s signature style of self-assured indie with a new brand of urgency, serving songs that feel more direct, more compelling than ever before.