Ted Leo is renowned for his razor-sharp melodicism and personal-is-political lyrical purview. But his backing band, the Pharmacists, are also one of the most limber in American indie rock, whether toying with chicken-scratched, cowbell-clinking funk on the title track to 2003's Hearts of Oak or embracing ‘70s punk's reggae leanings through the dubby breaks on the otherwise rousing “Criminal Piece.”