Daily Edit | Oct 9

​“Our music has never even been that good​. But it has something in it,” The Hellp’s Chandler Ransom Lucy told THE FACE last year. His leather-clad comrade, Noah Dillon, concurred:​“Even if it’s not the best, and even if it’s not the worst, there’s something real to it, and there are not many real things anymore.” For the best part of their career, the compelling LA-based duo have had more passion than musical skill, but the material from forthcoming album Riviera is impressively polished. On last month’s single Country Road, they merged moody glitch-pop with a pulsating club beat which would have Dan Snaith pulling up Shazam. On Doppler, Dillon’s melancholic lyrics allude to love, lust and heartache amidst a whirlwind lifestyle, while muffled acoustic guitars give way to rising, euphoric synths. They really don’t need be so humble these days. -The Face

10 / 9 / 2025

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