By reconfiguring the traditional gig into an informal setting (somewhere between a living room and a studio, with screens, projections and scattered instruments), KlangHaus make a sharp comment on the pomposity of rock while retaining a sense of urgency and musical power. The proximity to these performers, and their genial presence, offers an intimacy impossible when the stage separates band from audience, yet their songs have a post-punk immediacy whether in pastoral or transcendental moods.

As a band, The Neutrinos (who along with visual artist Sal Pittman make up KlangHaus) oscillate between folk and jazz influences, while injecting a rock dynamism and electronic pulse. The vocals coo or demand, the lyrics conjuring a world of compulsion, anxiety and promised escape. After a brief gentle interlude, with the audience gathered together and invited to hum, they return to the serious business of driving towards a savage ecstasy, a reminder of how rock’n’roll yearns to evoke a Dionysian spirit.

Their ability to suggest different genres and styles (there are elements of space rock, terse punk-funk and stentorian New Wave polemics) is focused into a scathing, acerbic ferocity and a hauntological mysticism: the images of streets, people and stop-motion captures, and looming waves and birds trapped forever in a snatch of flight, encroach on the ensemble. Even as the band chase that profound release, they are hemmed in, the repetition of beats, chants, choruses or riffs dragging them back to earth in a comment on the contradictions of a music that simultaneously revels in abandon and is caught in its context.

KlangHaus: InHaus, Summerhall, until 27 August, 5pm, 7pm, 9pm.