Los Angeles-based post-punk band Provoker has announced their sophomore album Demon Compass for October 13th via tastemaker label YEAR0001 (Viagra Boys, Yung Lean, Bladee, etc.). With production help from Zach Fogarty (Girlpool, Jean Dawson, The Blssm) and Daniel Fagerström (Viagra Boys), the band has perfected the languid post-punk that made them an artist to watch for many with their debut Body Jumper, reemerging from an in-between world once again with deep hooks and plaintive, bright melodies to create the dragging, atmospheric ache of melancholia. The news arrives with a new single and video for “Valley Ghoul.” Directed by Gustav Stegfors (Swedish House Mafia, Bladee, Yung Lean), the video follows a young ghoul struggling to fit in with his friends as they kill and eat the flesh of their classmates. He starts to form a connection with a human classmate who ends up playing a decisive role in ending the bullies.

Crafted under the influence of a city where daily events flirt with myths, legends, and curses, this sophomore album channels rich darkness to tell a story of desire, loss, and confrontation. Written while waiting for the release of the band’s esoteric yet pop-oriented debut Body Jumper, Provoker found themselves shifting their focus from projecting familiar, shadowy figures to embodying them — if only as a means of accessing the dregs of their internal world and confronting the demons that lurk even deeper. Demon Compass is a collection of songs that work together as an experience taking the band’s interest in horror iconography and desolate soundscapes to tell introspective stories about desire, loss, and growth.

Pre-save Demon Compass HERE.