In a day and age when even indie bands are gaming the press optics through fake virality and manipulative PR hands, it makes you wonder what’s actually happening in the underground when it’s all being fed to you by algorithm or e-mail. The story of Parlor Walls stretches many years at this point — the industrial punk duo’s first EP was released 12 years ago — though, in the recesses of the Brooklyn underground and with no mind (nor money) paid to publicity fuel, a band even with their longevity can easily get lost in the pileup of new releases. In fact, that’s kind of what happened just last year with frontwoman Alyse Lamb’s beguiling solo effort as the beguiling art-pop provocateur Alyse Dreamhouse during the Q3 peak, whose Body Mess you should also carve out time for in your life to explore if you haven’t already.

But Parlor Walls’ newly-released second full-length effort, Big Crystal Dream — which arrived this past Friday with no promotional singles ahead of it — is one that refutes ignoring. “Arrow” is right there to stab you, if you even so much as try. The highlight listen is Lamb and Chris Mulligan at their most viscerally fixated yet sharply chic in their dark design. Recorded with Model/Actriz collaborator Seth Manchester and mastered by former Talk Normal guitarist and Kim Gordon band member Sarah Register, the crosswires between burning industrial currents, digital currency, and a propulsive drum pulse beating through synthetic distortion cools the room while leaving a scene behind flushed in violent red. To be honest, the obtuse impressionism in its lyrics could point to just about anything, but the way their “Arrow” glides could only make for a deadly end.

Parlor Walls’ Big Crystal Dreams is available now on Famous Swords.