Kevin Bronson on September 13th, 2016

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The big news isn’t that L.A. post-punk outfit Dignitary is dragging you, chained and moaning, into dark places — they’ve been exceptional at that for a while. It’s that the band — Mike Cuenca, Gabe Huerta, Fallon Scherzinger and friends — will finally release their full-length album “Full Moon in Vertigo” on Oct. 16 via Wiener Records. And Cuenca, the indie filmmaker behind the band’s “Demon Beside Me” and “Destiny’s False turn” mini-films, says it’s the first of three albums to be released by the band within the next year. (This month, Dignitary also formally released its two-year-old EP “Lady in White.”)

The new song “Mississippi Red” is an opaque tale of Hugh and Jane and their abusive relationship, with Jane admitting “I’m paralyzed, I’m paralyzed.” Propelled by driving bass and echoing guitar, it’s every bit the trip back to every darkwave band you ever loved — as if “we on a winding road again,” leading into the glorious shadows of the 1980s.

||| Stream: “Mississippi Red”

||| Also: Stream “Let Her Burn”

||| Also: Watch the video for “Bricella’s Highway”

||| Live: Dignitary celebrate their album release with a show Sept. 29 at Union. They also play the Silverlake Lounge on Oct. 13.

||| Previously: “Destiny’s False Turn,” “Demon Beside Me,” Ears Wide Open