Our Hyper by Hyper Gal

For fans of YHWH Nailgun, early Xiu Xiu, Melt-Banana, the Zach Hill discography, and endless anxious obsession, Our Hyper by Hyper Gal sifts through the ruins of monoculture to craft a stunning tribute to the emotional pressure cooker of the algorithmic age. While Hyper Gal’s 2024 record After Image wore pop influences on its sleeve, a pivot towards the noise tradition leaves behind only the faintest residue of accessibility, found only in the most surgical dissection of Our Hyper’s shimmery synths and frantic vocals. Bolstered by blisteringly intense drums and abrasive digital noise, this increase in energy clearly reveals the mid 2020s zeitgeist, one accustomed to a state of high alert and bursting at the seams with repressed rage. By recovering the scraps of synth pop in a similar way to the industrial scene in its reclaiming of manufacturing waste and 90s hip hop in its reinvention of discarded drum machines, Hyper Gal reveals to us exactly how far we’ve departed from cohesive popular culture, requiring us to embrace this bristling future or waste a lifetime in pathetic nostalgia.