by Pat Pilch (@apg_gomets)
Osaka-based HYPER GAL are set to release Our Hyper tomorrow, and Post-Trash has first dibs. The project was introduced to western audiences back in January 2024, finding their home on left-field noise label Skin Graft Records. Our Hyper is their third record for the Midwest imprint, finding HYPER GAL doubling down on the dynamics of their relentless no wave pop.
HYPER GAL’s practice in noise is both cathartic and hypnotic. Their music makes dizzying revolutions around buried melodies, flipping the standard pop formula inside out. Remember the muscular diagram in science class? That’s the kind of pop music HYPER GIRL make; flayed, visceral, and entirely unmasked. With Our Hyper, visual artist Koharu Ishida (vocals) and noise artist Kurumi Kadoya (drums) have made their most authentic record yet.
Our Hyper is out tomorrow, 4/10 via Skin Graft Records. Listen early below: