At some point in 2014, Matt Scottoline wrote a song called "Shake it Off." So did Taylor Swift. But because Hurry is a scrappy Philadelphia trio and not Taylor Swift, it's Scottoline who's in the awkward position of having to preemptively explain the coincidence of sharing a title with the lead single from the best-selling record of last year. Whether or not "Shake it Off" existed pre-1989, it's more difficult to believe that it came out post-1995; Hurry's power-pop situates itself somewhere between Weezer ca. The Blue Album and Guided By Voices' Alien Lanes.-=-=-=-

Hurry's been busy cultivating their own rep as Scottoline's band Everyone Everywhere remains quiet after releasing the first great album of this decade's emo resurrection (both of their self-titled LPs qualify). In the process, they've managed to establish themselves in a city that keeps stockpiling young talent like the Sixers. On "Shake It Off", Scottoline projects a prodigious inability to stick up for himself, but he's more than capable of helping someone else. A number of fellow Philly bands—Modern Baseball, Beach Slang, the Weaks, Spraynard and Marietta—share a six-way split with Hurry for Lame-O Records' Strength in Weakness, the proceeds of which benefit United Cerebral Palsy.