Texas folk act The Oh Hellos are centered around the brother-sister duo of Tyler and Maggie Heath, with a cast of friends giving the band a big, room-filling sound. After two albums and a Christmas record, Dear Wormwood is their fourth release in four years—the band is begging to get out there as much on record as possible. The Oh Hellos land right in between the corners of three of modern folk’s heaviest hitters, fusing the urgency of Mumford & Sons, the pop-savvy of The Lumineers and the orchestral flourishes of Illinois-era Sufjan Stevens. That is to say, this is nothing you haven’t heard before. But The Oh Hellos have an unquestionable knack for melody. First single “Bitter Water” is a banjo-led picker, lit like a neon sign by a shout-along “Whoa-oa-oa” chorus. Dear Wormwood was written as a series of letters from a narrator trapped in an abusive relationship to her captor, giving the album some weight. Lines like “You have taught me well to sit and wait. Planning without acting, steadily becoming what I hate,” from the title track are haunting. But ultimately, Dear Wormwood is an album from talented musicians waiting to carve their own corner in the folk landscape.