Biography

Hypoluxo almost didn’t make it. Members of the Brooklyn-based quartet have been playing together in some form since their teens but their experience with the music industry could have broken a less tenacious group. Young and impressionable they signed an opaque deal that left them at the whim of a label with no interest in transparency or care for their releases. Many bands have broken up, fallen apart and moved on from lesser struggles but the frustration born from this experience crystallized into an aggressive and urgent album of power-pop inflected post-punk on Hypoluxo’s LP3. 
 On LP3 the band have crafted their most polished, unmediated and rousing songs to date. Eschewing the dream pop of their previous work LP3 hits immediately with lead guitarist Cameron Riordan’s angular post-punk lines whirling over the unrelenting rhythm section of drummer Marco Ocampo and bassist Eric Jaso while lead singer Samuel Cogen’s emotion packed vocals, replete with distinct yelps and near-screams grab you by the collar and refuse to let go. With help from @San Fermin’s Allen Tate, who produced LP3, these songs exude a charismatic charm that belies the surreptitious despondency that runs through Hypoluxo’s new album. 
 Their self-titled third album is out now.