Hyperpop / synth-driven pop rock tricksters Passepied (パスピエ / Pasupie) launch メケメケ (Mekemeke / Méqué méqué, “What is this?”) like a manga panel exploding out of a modular synth, all glassy uplift, crooked pop geometry, and guitars going gyan-gyan in the back like caffeinated gremlins. Formed around Tokyo in 2009, the band’s newest digital single wraps rock and EDM into hyperpop circuitry, while the title nods to a distorted French phrase meaning “What is this?” — a perfect little chaos password for Passepied’s art-school pop brain.
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