Melbourne alt-rockers Kisschasy view The Terrors of Comfort as a sister album to their 2007 breakthrough, Hymns for the Non-Believer. If that record was a coming-of-age exercise in finding oneself, the quartet’s fourth full-length is about life on the other side of that journey—older, wiser, and with more lived experience, good and bad. A key thematic through line is singer/guitarist Darren Cordeux’s realization that he feels most alive when confronting uncomfortable situations and emotions rather than avoiding them, best summed up in the quiet-loud anthem “Uncomfortably Numb” (“I feel alright when I’m flying too close to the sun”). “Parasite” explores the struggle of holding on to something that’s actively hurting you, while “Lie to Me” speaks to the bliss of ignorance in a relationship (“Keep your feelings to yourself/I’d rather be in naive heaven than in educated hell”). The Terrors of Comfort may be the band’s first album since 2009’s Seizures, but time has done nothing to dull their emo and alt-rock punch.