The Hellp is back, and they’re here to spread the chaos. The partnership of Noah Dillion and Chandler Ransom Lucy is back with “Caustic,” a high-voltage, nostalgia-soaked anthem that mixes post-pop punk rawness with bubblegum-sleaze vigor. A hell-for-leather ride through youthful daredevilry, after-hours debauchery, and the bittersweet thrill of growing up, the single drops before their much-anticipated national tour this fall.
“Caustic” yanks you into a fluorescent vortex of mangled synths, stuttery drum machines, and The Hellp’s characteristic bar-bending sonics. Dillion’s vocals pierce through the fog with hypnotic urgency. “The problem is I could never remember how your skeleton looked among the grass.” With its explosive sound, it is as introspective as forward-looking, mixing indie sleaze aesthetics with a next-gen dance-floor-ready edge.
“Caustic” lingers like cigarette smoke on a thrifted leather jacket, caught between the rapture of the moment and the longing for something beyond you. The Hellp have a gift for making a chaos sound cinematic, and with “Caustic,” they’ve written an anthem for anyone addicted to the high of her own story.