"Relentless experimentalists"
DAZED & CONFUSED"Blurring the boundaries of gender and singular identity, the nine tracks on Modern play with what our ideas of emotion and love really mean, packing massive weight within deceptively sparse song structures. One listen to the shimmering, shimmying beat of 'Faith' or the skeletal pulse of 'Hurt You' is enough to make one thing clear: this is the future of pop music: eternally catchy, constantly evolving, never compromising…. a beautiful, important record."
ELECTRONIC BEATS"Showing the world what the future sounds like"
SOMA MAGAZINE"No matter what they attempt, they seem to execute it beautifully. The best part is that it's unclassifiable. It's nothing you've heard before. It's Hecuba."
URB"An inventive, darkly addictive album. All these songs twist and turn and fuck with your head, especially when they turn into pop tunes… building atmospheres pregnant with dread and desire."
NME"In short: a mood masterclass"
ARTROCKER"Glorious, sci-fi inspired Greek tragedy"
DAZED & CONFUSED"That first refrain found me singing along to a song I'd never heard before, a diabolical catchiness I didn't question until I realized what I was singing: "I got beat up but I'm laughing now/I got beat up but I'm laughing now"—to the most deviant meter this side of the prime meridian. Hecuba is like Sparks meets Depeche Mode no wait '50s R&B no wait, fuck it, Hecuba is like nothing else. After recently shaving their eyebrows and cropping their locks, Isabelle and Jon became visual synonyms, elevating androgyny from charade to brilliance… Like their mythological namesake, Hecuba begets heroes. Listen to their songs, and you'll know what I mean."
LA RECORD"Every element of Paradise provides a unique taste of what-the-fuck pleasure… captivating, beautiful, and otherworldly strange."
URB"A melodic Suicide"
BIG STEREO"Plays out like a dream"
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