Watch the video for Cupid & Psyche’s “Serenity’s Pit”

Michael Vidal and Juan Velazquez, former members of the esteemed Los Angeles post-punk outfit Abe Vigoda, have reformed as the duo Cupid & Psyche. Today (August 30), they’re premiering the second single from their upcoming debut LP, Romantic Music, due out October 13 on Felte Records. “Serenity’s Pit” follows the project’s lead offering, “Angels On The Phone,” released last month.

Like “Angels…” before it, the new song takes Vidal and Velazquez’s sound in a dreamy, synth-pop-indebted direction, opting for cavernous arrangements over the spartan, angular attack their previous group favored. “Shadow, dripping off me / Knows what I want, does this for me,” Vidal sings over thumping automated percussion, a visceral bass line, and a faraway electric guitar. “Confuse the feeling, though it’s obvious / Loses meaning, the more that it’s said.”

The song’s visual treatment, directed and by Vidal himself, is a slide show featuring experiments in light and shadow; water features that range from gushing to dropping to stagnant; forlorn monuments to late-capitalist blight; a Google search for “is it possible to kill god!!?!?!?!?,” which leads to the Wikipedia page for the Tampa death metal band Decide; cobwebs; well-dressed mannequins standing on a balcony; and a T-shirt that reads, “Be Awesome Today.”

Watch the video exclusively below, stream the track on its own, and check out Romantic Music’s cover art and tracklist below.