Overheard’s indie rock/folk/grunge debut album is compact and more than a little unsettling. It’s eight tracks of trance-like rhythms under lyrics about bodies returning to nature, the forward march of time and the cyclical truth of human lives.

Intertwined was created during a week at producer and musician Dylan Nowik’s Pine Knoll Studio in Palenville, New York. Autumnal melancholy seeps through the album. It’s haunting and atmospheric, thanks to the vocals of guitarists Erin Barth-Dwyer and Will LaPorte.

In the single “Time on a Good Day,” Barth-Dwyer croons about “a lifetime of hunger / Filled with intangible plans / Swallowed up by Appalachia / Never to be seen again.” It’s goosebumps-inducing stuff, ripe with the potential for urban legends.

LaPorte takes the lead on “Freckles.” His voice is well-suited to Barth-Dwyer’s, and she harmonizes on the track. The transition from Barth-Dwyer to LaPorte and back again is smooth, with similarly spooky content in the lyrics:

“Tell my dog goodbye / Beneath the tree / Dead long before we / Fled our misery.”

“This Time” is a clear standout for its chaotic marriage of bass, drums, and guitar and vocalizing. Bassist Kenny Thomas seamlessly shifts between soft and aggressive rhythms as needed, and drummer Kenny Hauptman is rock-steady as usual. Barth-Dwyer’s full range is on display here with siren-like vocals that ensnare the listener and refuse to release.

All of the songs are steeped in intrigue, but “Home” is perhaps most poignant. It’s a mother’s lament of her child leaving, made suitably dark. Barth-Dwyer sings, “You will build a house / Out of skin and hair and bone / Fill it up with blood / But don’t ever forget your home.”

Halloween is over, but the darkest days of the year are yet to come, and Overheard has fans of the macabre covered with its finely crafted debut album.