If a video could perfectly capture a band’s style and temperament, look no further than the Adam Stafford-directed clip for The Twilight Sad’s Seven Years of Letters, the new single from the standout 2009 album Forget the Night Ahead.

In typical unnerving Twilight Sad fashion, this video is gray and bleak — some might even say downright haunting. Though seemingly cathartic in the end, the means to reach it are fairly chilling.