The Hellp

Before they founded The Hellp, Noah Dillon worked as a photographer, and Chandler Lucy was a model. They came together over a shared penchant for combining designer clothes and thrift-store accessories as much as their love for Bruce Springsteen, Aphex Twin, Blink-182, and Crystal Castles. Chris Greatti, who’s worked with Yves Tumor, Yungblud, and Willow Smith, and recorded The Hellp’s catchy track “California Dream Girl,” said that the world wasn’t ready for them when they started out in 2015. A few years later, critics were calling them “the last cool band on Earth” – or at least one of the few that haven’t given up the fight against algorithms and AI. Their sound is the kind that’s conspicuously absent in mainstream American music and challenges claims about the supposed death of music. Who says music’s dead? See you in August at the OFF Festival.