Although her bandmates cut their teeth playing in various outfits in Northern Ireland’s music scene, Lyndsey McDougall had never been in a band until she formed New Pagans. “To be honest, I am so sick of young, male bands who look like they don’t care about anything,” she told us in our recent Band To Watch interview. And so her band is the opposite of that: three men and two women who care a lot. McDougall and New Pagans care deeply about many things: music, art, religion, history, motherhood, reproductive rights. And that care is more than evident in their debut album The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots And All, which is full of noisy, catchy indie rock with sticky pop-punk melodies and a biting punk-rock edge that never sounds anything less than urgent.