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Cold Court, a Philadelphia brother-sister duo, has released their debut EP \ (^^) / — known as Hands Up — a deliberately glitchy genre mashup that draws surface-level comparisons to hyperpop acts like 100 Gecs while operating with markedly more self-seriousness.
The project stacks influences without apology, which is either its defining quality or its commercial liability, depending on where you sit.
What separates Cold Court from the irony-soaked corner of hyperpop is tone: they mean it.
Opening Track "Nina" Shows the Range The EP's first statement, "Nina," opens in territory familiar to anyone who tracked the mid-aughts dance punk moment — Franz Ferdinand and Test Icicles are the named reference points — before shifting into something harder to categorize roughly a minute in.
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