Last year, producers Tanner Ross and James Watts released an EP and a bunch of singles that gave techno-heads a tiny taste of the sound they called “haunted.” Now, with their debut 10-track LP for Claude Von Stroke’s label, there’s a whole house full of ghosts, skeletons, and dark corners to explore.

Each track is like wandering down a dark corridor. You never know what’s going to pop out of any given doorway or drip down unexpectedly onto your face. Spectral keyboard effects, insectine buzzes and bone chilling rattles lace the entire album, while usually maintaining enough thumping bass to rock any club. The eerily lonely synth stabs of “The Third Floor” and the title track’s minimalist slow build and unsettling chimes trade tempo for mood. But “Skeleton Key” and “Deadend Motel” provide excellent examples of Voodeux’s ability to fuse their creepy sound with the club-friendly. Looks like they’ll be haunting the underground for a while to come.

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