East coasters know damn well these brutal spells of wind are marking winter’s entrance, but all the way of the way on the opposite side of the coast in the warmer climates of California, Still Ruins are sparking a frozen chill in the air just as well. Last year, the Oakland trio earned their buzz cred behind the release of their self-titled debut EP, an evocative profession of forlorn, dreamy post-punk housed within spotless glass prisms and solidified with icy keys that could turn any season into winter. It’s really no wonder that the band was properly initiated into the scene’s esteemed gothic cold wave corner recently with an invitation to play at this past October’s Substance festival.

With the arrival of their new single, “Our Penance”, vocalist Frankie Soto, guitarist Jose Medina, and bassist Cyrus VandenBerghe again inhabit an emotive space that finds them floating somewhere between the past tangible and a present nothingness. “I can see / You don’t want to / Tell me goodbye / For the last time,” Soto sings over soft keys and the final bumps of blood before the body goes cold. That the listen comes attached with four wildly different remixes of the same song by recent LOTTO winners They Are Gutting A Body of Water, sensual EBM makers Normal bias, morbid goth popper Blood Rave, and dream-pop kindred Foliage gives you many reasons to freeze your heart in place.

Still Ruins’ “Our Penance” single is available now on à La Carte Records.