Experimental Brooklyn art rockers Activity pre-emptively set Spooky Season in motion during Summerween with their highly evolved new album, A Thousand Years In Another Way, but they aren’t letting the actual season they were made for escape them completely. Described as their version of a holiday song, the new single “Halloween (Does It Make You Sad)” starts begins with an existential inquiry on costume traditions. As the listen wears on, the Brooklyn four-piece go several layers deeper into the subconscious, pondering the invisible man in a much more stark manner of the mind. Sonically, it creeps in between your ears like the opening montage to a 1990’s animated children’s special with keys and guitars spindling about playfully eerie. The apparition of Travis Johnson is that voice from the dark calling your name through the night to that strange house in the woods. Strangely-formed synth arpeggios and warped percussive rabbit holes work the rest of Activity’s black magic on your senses, leave you suspended between two worlds.

Activity’s “Halloween (Does It Make You Sad)” single is available now on Western Vinyl.