Nearly three years since their last album Invoke, Oakland dream-pop outfit Night School return today with a new EP titled For Keeps that drops via their longtime label home of Graveface Records. The project’s title track is the perfect blend of gossamer shoegaze and Graveface’s signature eerie nocturnal feel, with the lyrics similarly balancing the purity of love against mankind’s darker instincts in the face of romantic obsession. “‘For Keeps’ is a story written from the perspective of someone who is so desperately in love, they’d do anything to hold onto that love,” the band shares. “[We] just wanted to explore a really dark part of the human psyche.”
To further elucidate on these themes, Night School has shared a music video that pairs performance footage with a narrative of amour fou that gets a little bit too fou—I won’t spoil anything, but there is manslaughter involved. Check it out below, and stream the full EP here. You can also expect a cassette/vinyl release for For Keeps in June.
