The members of New York’s favorite ‘nervous-soul’ outfit, the indomitable Ava Luna, are back with their third record in as many years, and things have only gotten stranger... Infinite House (Western Vinyl) finds the band in, of all places, the sleepy southern ghost town of Benton, MS. There on a writing retreat, they begin to notice things... an apparition in the form of a shadowy black dog, the interior of an abandoned house that seems to go on forever, local characters who smile and nod and hint at mysteries deeper still. Weaving their way into the fabric of the songs, these experiences make the resulting record one haunted by its initial setting, though that’s not where our story ends.

Back in New York to finish the writing process, more familiar themes creep into the frame... amorous pursuits, financial woes, inevitable mortality. Our heroes return to their modest city lives but the landscape looks somehow different, colored by their foray into the misty southern gothic, shot through with prismatic light and littered with hexagonal stacks. The amorous pursuit becomes a ruby-colored fabric come to life. Financial woes are mandrake roots clinging to a hill, then a mangled elevator caught between floors. A family member’s death seems forewarned: the black dog.

Recorded at their now full-time studio (Gravesend), mixed with Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, MGMT), and mastered by Josh Bonati (Mac Demarco, Zola Jesus), it is safely the band’s most polished recording to date. But their trademark intensity, mirthful humor, and taut angularity remain resolutely in place, the burnished surfaces illuminating the labyrinth beneath like never before.