Shanghai’s Hyph11e commits a debut album of brooding sound design and gnashing breaks to her home city’s Svbkvlt stronghold

Harald Grosskopf

They blend shimmering guitars and power chords with washes of dreamy synthesizers and new-wave basslines on “Florence Girls

Featuring members of Cut Sick

as the French singer-songwriter goes straight for the throat again with her guitar / loop pedal / voice pattern

MEAT SHIRT - Acid Dove LP Spoken Word Shanghai’s Hyph11e commits a debutIn just over a year, MEAT SHIRT has found its way into the most demanding ears, and not only within the punk scene. The french far west (aka Brittany) saw the birth of a trio which does not forbid itself in any way, not unlike the pioneers of US hardcore that MEAT SHIRT readily cites as references : Zero Boys, Dicks, Minor Threat or Bad Brains. The band also knows how to venture into moving regions from garage punk (The Osees, Ty Segall, anyone?) to