Hyphen Hyphen

HYPHEN HYPHEN : AWARD WINNING TRIO AND GIRL-FRONTED, QUEER POP/ROCK BAND WITH A STRONG MESSAGE Hailing from the coastal town of Nice, Southern France, meet the explosive Hyphen Hyphen and their uncompromising performance 🔥 Bridging the French Riviera and California, the Award-winning pop/rock trio HYPHEN HYPHEN released their third album "C’est La Vie" in January 2023, followed by stadium banger "Too Young" which was TF1's official song for the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 in July. This new album is full of prestigious collaborations such as Glen Ballard (6 times Grammy Awards winner) on “Don’t wait for me” ; or mix engineers Mark «Spike» Stent (Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, etc.) and Dan Grech (Lana del Rey, Moby) marking the first time either of them had worked with a French artist. Armed with such an impressive cast, this third album is also the most persona l for Hyphen Hyphen. Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/HYPHENHYPHEN/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/hyphenhyphen/?hl=fr Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/user/HYPHENHYPHENofficial with local support from Seance Crasher ! The newest single from Seance Crasher (the recording alias of Portland musician, Kevin Rafn) is about the stranger on the other end of the crisis line. "Charlie" is the disembodied voice we cling to when we're lost, like a flashlight sweeping the dark. t's also an extremely catchy, danceable homage to 1980s pop, complete with three synthesizers and a heavily reverbed tom solo. These elements might seem incongruous on first blush, but they're situated in a tradition. Think: Tears for Fears meets Purple Rain. "I appreciate that kind of contrast," says Rafn. "Serious subject, upbeat backtrack." The song's producer, Cam Spies, (Reptaliens, The Shivas, Radiation City), acknowledges the full-on throwback of the sound. This is not a daylight track. It's midnight. "There's steam coming from a sewer grate. There's a sax player in a tunnel." But as closely as "Charlie" hues to that sound, the high-stakes narrative delivered by Rafn's dreamy vocals (backed by Lia Gist) produces a kind of interior dissonance that restrains the song from all-out kitsch. "It's autobiographical," Rafn says. "It's about the narrator's perceived intimacy with that stranger on the other end." One lyric goes, 'I hear his voice / though I know he didn't have a choice,' and therein lies the rub. For the archetypal "Charlie," answering the phone might be a calling, but at the end of the day it's also a job. The cover art by Kevin's brother, Daniel Rafn bears an oblique resemblance to the Betamax sleeve for Miami Vice, but was in fact directly lifted from the most recent edition of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual, a corresponding '80s nostalgia tying the music to its theme (while inadvertently commenting on the state of psychiatry). Other contributors include Alexander Thomas on percussion, and photos by Todd Walberg. "Charlie" signals a shift from the psychedelic rock riffs of Seance Crasher's previo…