S top scrolling. Look up. Exercise your imagination and make your own choices. These are the true desires nestled just below the batshit surface of ‘Fangs’: south London art-rock quartet HMLTD ’s audacious third album, where tales of cocks and cuckolds, German philosophy and biblical sacrifice wrestle for airtime under a sonic umbrella that veers from musical theatre to gabber techno to a breed of industrial EDM that they’re calling ‘ÜberGoth’.

It’s told through the analogy of gothic horror’s best-dressed baddie, the soul-sucking vampire. But really, ‘Fangs’ is an album about the perils of social media and blindly acquiescing to the algorithm. “The vampire lives this existence bereft of love, bereft of sunlight, bereft of any joy except the addiction of consumption.…