Dazed and Confused Magazine

Hyperpop

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“If quarantine hadn’t happened, I truly believe hyperpop wouldn’t have been created or as big as it is now. We all got in our bags and were pushing out great music,” says 17-year-old Edgar Sarratt III, AKA midwxst, of the internet-born music phenomenon that’s somewhere between glitch pop and post-emo. “I made more songs than I ever did – (quarantine) was a blessing and curse.” As a kid, Sarratt hopped between states and countries before his family settled in Indiana, the state that

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