The band’s second album by the same title is an unclassifiable mood piece: a strangely heightened world of desperate characters and hooks like enervated simulacra of more familiar songs.

Nine years since their last album, the Providence punks return with another record dripping with righteous fury—and a punchier, newly polished sound to get the message across as clearly as possible.

A year after playing the final show with their longtime band, the Disarmers, the Chapel Hill country musician returns with a more focused sound and newly forthright perspective.

The French composer leans into her music’s ghostly qualities on a score for a cult-favorite 1960 horror film, stitching together contrasting layers of sound to conjure the movie’s looming dread.