The eternally underrated Boston-area vets of Royal Wedding are back at it with Dry Lagoons. Their skeletal, razor-sharp take on a genre that can already be sufficiently creepy when it wants to be—new wave—is an eerie, but welcome, contrast to a Boston scene that’s saturated with friendly, fuzzy noise and wandering experimentation.

With monotone, almost robotic vocals paired with dissonant guitar lines and relentlessly driving bass and drums, Dry Lagoons embraces the coolly sinister vibes that made bands like Joy Division and, more recently, Interpol so compelling. (Adding to the hipness factor: It was produced at the very cool Berwick Institute in one of Boston’s grittier neighborhoods, Dudley Square.)

But not content to simply imitate their predecessors, Royal Wedding add their own unique touches to their musical approach, most notably a very noticeable surf/Middle Eastern guitar influence (prominent on “Xenophobe” and “Controllers”). And there’s a rawness felt here—hear the bottom channels of the bass crunch out a little bit—that’s so rarely heard on recordings from new-wave bands this good, generally because they’re signed to a major label. It’s like getting front-row seats to the coolest band in town, playing in your basement.

Find Dry Lagoons (name your price on Bandcamp) here, or streaming below, and check out other Royal Wedding releases while you’re at it. They’ll be playing this Saturday (March 7) at Out of the Blue Gallery in Cambridge.