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The obvious hook is the can of beans, but that’s something to save for later. First, the story of how Seah Maister, Jenna Earle and Karli Rose MacIntosh morphed from the prog-folk project Sound of the Sun to the heavier-than-heaven trio known as Space Queen.

To dive into Space Queen’s recorded output—a string of singles and the 2023 full-length Nebula —is to be transported to a better place. Even though all members are in their 20s, the Vancouver-based trio seems beautifully obsessed with a time when guitars ruled the universe, and loud-and-weird was a blueprint for world domination.

To that end, Nebula ’s distortion-churned opening track, “Battle Cry”, suggests L7 slathered in

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