HXXS

With their taut hybrid of post-punk and abrasive electronics, HXXS take 21st-century angst to surreal levels on releases including 2019's debut album Year of the Witch. HXXS (pronounced "hexes") began in Portland, Oregon, where Gavin Neves was working on music on his own before he met Jeannie Colleene. They became creative partners not long after they became a couple, and their musical experiments led them away from standard guitar and drums fare to choppy, noisy electronics. A few months after they started making music, HXXS moved to California, where they were both raised (Neves grew up...