It’s always been a group effort for Swedish popsters The Concretes. They’re eight members deep, and despite the loss of distinctive lead vocalist Victoria Bergsman in 2006, they’ve soldiered on. It could have been easy for fans to turn away after the band’s first full-length minus Bergman, 2007’s lackluster Hey Trouble, but the Swedes look to be hitting their stride again after some well-deserved R&R. Last year’s WYWH takes a new direction, with some glossy production keeping the mid-tempo collection active. Just check out the keyboards on the enticing “I Wish We’d Never Met” and the bass-line of The Concretes’ best song in quite some time, “What We’ve Become.” With MillionYoung, Speaker Speaker. BRYDEN MCGRATH

Mon., Feb. 28, 8 p.m., 2011