There’s a really terrific “last minute” (not really) show at Healthy Times Fun Club tonight, featuring a gaggle of Seattle’s finest DIY acts. Peppy punk duo Masters and Johnson will perform, along with the fresh-from-tour Eel Eater, Stephanie (read Eric’s apt appraisal of their sound here) and Haunted Horses.

• Haunted Horses

The others acts have been pretty thoroughly lauded in their time, but Haunted Horses are somewhat new on the scene. Full disclosure: I romp with HH members Myke Pelly and Colin Dawson pretty regularly which, believe it or not, actually predisposed me to be skeptical of their band, but when I got an earful of their sound, I was pretty floored. Dudes have found a relatively uncultivated niche in the Seattle garage scene, and it’s easy to see why they were chomping at the bit to open for Liars (sadly it was not meant to be).

The duo’s definitely got that Sisterworld thing going on. “Crystal Desert”—which you stream for free at hauntedhorses.com—is a consistently eerie, white-knuckled introduction to the Haunted Horses sound. It’s a witch’s brew of incongruous elements: guitars are overdosed with reverb and spit out sinister, twangy melodies. Drums transform like cinematic wolfmen—first they’re locked into 4/4 dance patterns, then they careen into wild, animalistic spasms. The vocals, fittingly, are a supremely haunting mix of inchoately shouted lyrics and high-pitched ghost moans. The whole song sounds dangerously out of control, as if it could collapse into insanity at any moment, but somehow it stays figuratively tethered to a relentless and increasingly tense through-line.

“Crystal Desert” appears on HH’s side of a cassette split with Eel Eater, which they’ll likely be hawking at Healthy Times tonight.

For a supposedly slapdash lineup, I’d say this gig tonight’s looking pretty stacked. Show starts at 9 PM.