Hyphen Hyphen, a Queer Pop/Rock band from France, crosses borders and excites a worldwide audience
BY ORLY LYONNE
Queer Pop/Rock Band Hyphen Hyphen, a French electropop band from Nice, has released a brand new track, “Call My Name,” offering a preview of the highly-anticipated new album C’est la Vie, out this month on January 20 via Parlophone France.
The album features two singles “Don’t Wait For Me,” “Too Young” and latest track, “Call My Name.”
“Call My Name” is a new powerful extract of their upcoming album C’est la Vie, along with a live video—a cinematographic universe that makes us rediscover the acrobatic and remarkable voice of front singer SANTA.
Forced into isolation, the band managed to turn the pandemic lockdowns into an opportunity to reset and refocus on the thing that has connected them for more than ten years: a genuine love for music, performance and songwriting.
Having already performed more than 500 concerts in Europe, Hyphen Hyphen already took the next step and seduced the American public with their performance at Summerstage Festival in NYC this year. Following up with an international tour in 2023, it seems quite certain that this new album and the collection of infectious songs has the potential to cross borders and to excite a worldwide audience.
Four years have passed since the release of Hyphen Hyphen’s second album, the brilliant HH, which was entirely written and self-produced by the band. And what a roller coaster these four years have been… with the trio going from a spectacular sold-out tour (nearly 200 gigs in two years) to quarantine and isolation, imposed by the global pandemic. For a group that has long built its reputation on stage and spent week after week on the road, this return home could have been fatal. But it turned out to be quite the opposite: forced into isolation, the band managed to turn these successive lockdowns into an opportunity to reset and refocus on the thing that has connected them for more than ten years: a genuine love for music, performance and songwriting.
“When we recorded our previous album, it was all about showing we could be producers. For this one, it was about showing that we are musicians. Everything was recorded live in the studio. We really wanted to get back to the soul of the band,” they said.
More on Hyphen Hyphen at www.hyphenhyphen-music.com.
