“Innocence” his latest single, arrives as a distillation of that identity. He describes it as “a modern version of what makes Nocturne’s Kiss, Nocturne’s Kiss”. Where previous work has explored wide ranges of emotions and overarching concepts, “Innocence” arrives with clarity, heavy, dark, dreamlike and drilled with momentum. It feels less like a pivot than a tightening of focus.

Atlanta’s underground seems to reinvent itself every few years, mutating around a new network of artists who care more about the art of gathering rather than the confinements of genre attribution. Right now, a band at the center of that motion is Zija, fronted by Danny Griffin and Holden Fincher on guitar. Over the last year the group has turned glitch, hardcore and shoegaze into something that feels equally volatile and intentional.