4 o’clock in the afternoon is the 2022 EP from Long Beach based alternative rock band Chase Petra, following their debut 2019 album, Liminal. 4 P.M. is the time of day for me where I fucking hate everything, I cannot stand the afternoon, singer Hunter Allen says with a hint of laughter. Did I just waste my day? I wanna fall asleep and I feel like I dont know what to do with my afternoon and the morning was wasted. Its just a bad time historically for me. This state, and the time that brings it, are the thematic thread that ties together the six tracks on 4 OClock in the Afternoon. Allen, along with bassist Brooke Dickson and drummer Evan Schaid, initially planned a conceptual LP, but instead ended up with a blunt, bare-bones EP that works its way through depressions, grief, trauma, and quarter-life crises. Theyre recounted over a mix that darts between spritely garage-pop, thundering emo-punk, and acoustic alt-rock, all rendered with an earworm melodic knack that would make Patrick Stump blush.