The duo’s wild-eyed genre mishmash covers chiptuned pop-punk, chintzy trance synths, and the closely mic’d intimacy of indie pop—sometimes all in the same song.
The madcap duo’s second album is about many things—junk food, being dumb, the ska revival—but mostly it’s about two savants making pop music sound absurdly fun.
A world away from the technicolor rave that’s defined hyper-pop but there’s still a good time to be had across Glaive’s debut album, alongside a riotous sense of unpredictability.
The songs of Midwxst feel like beacons in a tempest - a blend of rap, rock and whatever else he needs to bottle up the exact feeling in his heart. And on his debut album, E3, it is on prime display.