Following a string of releases that spanned everything from Disney to spooky season, Magnolia Park have taken their storytelling talents even further with their fourth album, VAMP. The follow-up to 2023’s Halloween Mixtape II, guitarist Tristan Torres explains that the band’s new LP chronicles “an insane, cyberpunk dystopian world, Nocturne Nexus, where vampires have to fight against a Final Fantasy-type organisation to save the world.” So far, so intriguing, right? “I would say it’s a loose concept,” continues Tristan, who suggests VAMP is striving for something even bigger. “We wanted to write something that the fans could love and start a community that people can go to and express their feelings for the record and what we’re doing as a band. We wanted it...