Reigns

Steeped in the kind of night sweats sourced from Poe to The Blair Witch, UK brothers Tim and Roo Farthing have brewed a third album of foggy legends. Recording as Operatives A and B, the brothers allegedly explored and recorded musical phenomena and stories they discovered within the titular house, finding themselves stranded there for two days. The tales include a father isolating his daughters with the lie of an apocalypse and a widow pining on the shore for a husband lost at sea decades ago. These silver-tinted portraits are described in deadpan vocals and framed by music that fuses '70s horror soundtracks to chamber classical piano and bruised electronic pulses. The instrumentals are a kind of spirit photography, with subliminal voices, rattling coins and shredding paper occasionally rising up in the mix. It's served up like a modernized Hammer horror film: the House of Usher with elevators and haunted high speed internet.