Kyunchi

Kyunchi is a candy-coated, gender-bending, post-modern, hyperpop, scene kid. Inspired by both post-internet aesthetics and MySpace-era bubblegum punk, their super saccharine songs investigate gender, beauty, and life in the digital world. Kyunchi began producing a unique blend of chiptune-inflected poptimism alongside Ayesha Erotica. Their deceptively superficial sound belies more empowering themes, exploring self-care through splurging and the importance of self-love. Their team up with Aja of “RuPaul's Drag Race,” titled “Murakami” (after the legendary visual artist), interrogates the lowbrow/highbrow divide and the construction of identity through fashion. Influenced as much by Jpop artists like Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and Perfume as by Western festival favorites like Poppy, Grimes, and Lana Del Rey, Kyunchi's bubbly brand of blippy synths and ear-wormy vocal hooks embody a complicated picture of gender in the new millennium. Mixing wistfulness and innovation in equal measures, their sound exemplifies the manic quality of a Gen Z Tumblr mood-board. Aesthetic cues for Kyunchi range from Final Fantasy to oneiromancy. Fully embracing the #20ninescene renaissance, Kyunchi's music was described by Paper Mag as “nostalgic and futuristic at the same time.” Taking their idiosyncratic spin on kawaii culture to the next level, Kyunchi is reinventing the sound of cyberspace.