Review: Hiperson – Live at Zhenghuo, Chengdu

Review: Hiperson – Live at Zhenghuo Art Space, Chengdu Saturday 25 October 2020 *** There’s something special about seeing a local band play a packed out show on home turf, and in Chengdu, few are more beloved than five-piece rock band Hiperson 海朋森. The atmosphere surrounding Hiperson’s homecoming show in Chengdu last Saturday was suitablyContinueContinue reading “Review: Hiperson – Live at Zhenghuo, Chengdu”

Hiperson Reconstruct Narratives on Bildungsroman

On their third full-length album Bildungsroman, released last month via Beijing tastemakers Maybe Mars—Hiperson’s incisive, kinetic reconstructions of post-punk, art rock and noise manifest with bright, new sonic self-awareness. “We want to discuss the urgency of now,” says Chen Sijiang, lead singer of Hiperson. We’re sitting in the courtyard of Yishan, a long-running retro antiquesContinueContinue reading “Hiperson Reconstruct Narratives on Bildungsroman”