Salem Wolves, “Teenage Wonder”
This North Shore rock and roll trio permanently entrenched itself in our 617 playlists at the start of the year with the Black Books EP, then followed that up with a brilliant ode to late-1600s accused witchcrafter Giles Corey (“More Weight”). But it seemed like those early tracks were all gentle practice for “Teenage Wonder,” a ferocious guitar-rock bandit with a ’60s-pop swing and some rockabilly infectiousness that finds frontman Gray Bouchard losing the plot in life (“I’ve been down so long I don’t know what’s up”), but figuring out just what it takes to make one of the best Boston songs of the year.