The terse, persuasive songs of Brooklyn band Household explore two seemingly contradictory gestures: the effect of empty space on the pop song and the architectural strength of intricately tangled melodies. The house-of-cards precision that balances guitar, bass, drums, and multiple voices against each other recalls underground legends such as Slant 6, yet the breathing room left between notes falls closer to the tension of Wire. For Household, this balance echoes a larger conceptual theme of restlessness—a process of allowing for possibility married to an armoring against disappointment.