Evoking a rich tapestry of ice-frosted forests, peasant revolts, and silent knights, the Philadelphia punk band Poison Ruïn stabs at the pulsing heart of what it means to live under the permanent midnight of contemporary life. With Harvest, their latest release, the band aligns their sonic palette to their godless, medieval-inflected aesthetic symbolism, creating a record that strikes with an assured sense of darkened harmony. The band stares into the abyss of modern living with a sober and empathetic outlook, portraying our cracked reality as a complex and difficult to parse miasma of competing desires. Flashes of electronic and synth textures colour the dark and damp corners of Poison Ruïn’s sound and bring brief glimpses of an open horizon we can all strive for.