THiQ :: The New Cats

With his solo Paint project, Pedrum Siadatian has been steadily inching out of the Allah Lahs’ gritty, fuzzy, sweetly disruptive garage aesthetic and into cleaner, synthier, electro-fired dance music. Now with the Montreal producer and Sheer Agony frontman Jackson Macintosh in tow, THiQ pushes further into electronic grooviness. Day-glo fantasies of synth and keyboard open up like a psychedelic curio cabinet, with tableaux after tableaux of anime flavored hyper-realities.