Inspired by ghost-hunting reality TV shows, Veronica 'Vern' Avola's latest alias found the Portland, Oregon based artist leaning into the brief with an album of bone-crunching beats, wailing electronics and ectoplasmic synth extrusions. Leah Kardos said: "Avola relishes taking things to playful, noisy extremes with acrid atmospherics, creepy unidentifiable clangs and clunks, and oodles of goopy pungent distortion.