Years before it became associated with an algorithm-driven playlist on streaming services, hyperpop was an unruly and nebulous internet subculture driven by independent musicians obsessed with pop ...
The microgenre — fueled by teen upstarts like osquinn and glaive, and more established names like 100 gecs and A.G. Cook — has a modest but dedicated following, and many different kinds of sounds. By ...
In 2019, Spotify launched a hyperpop playlist, featuring a wide scope of artists as well as guest curations from 100 gecs, Cook and more. This collection further proved that the undefinable sound of ...
"Being music," in the all-encompassing sense, seems to be the aspiration of the genre 100 gecs has come to represent: hyperpop. Since the 2010s, that name has been a controversial catch-all for a ...
Underscores, the musical pen name of April Harper Grey, has quickly risen to the top of the growing hyperpop genre. Her 2021 debut album “fishmonger” brought a breath of fresh air to the genre, ...
Reviews may call it unforgiving and harsh, maximalist and blown-out, high-pitched and squeaky, electronic and glitchy. While these terms are sometimes applicable, the genre of hyperpop’s most defining ...