Bleep

Hypnos finds Brooklyn-based duo Sean McBride and Liz Wendelbo - AKA Xeno & Oaklander - taking their spring-loaded synth pop and consolidating it into an even tighter package. The works born from McBride and Wendelbo’s shared love of electronics and a pointed respect for the art, existing at once with and without the global synth wave revival. A stylish darkness consistently exudes from Hypnos, taking whispered François Hardy style vocals and the Upper East Side New Wave sophistication and melding them with a near-future cyberpunk aesthetic. Given the duo’s past forays into film scores, it’s also a bit Blade Runner; a bit Twin Peaks: The Return. In other words, this is synth wave to lose yourself in.