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Following the experimental rock and roll group Check Icicles disbanded in 2006, Devonté Hynes released Lightspeed Champion as his own folk-driven task. The new endeavor allowed him to spotlight his like for pop melodies, a fondness that started with Hynes’ child years like of Broadway musicals and, years later on, …

Having a goofy name along with a sound that spans sound, metallic, dance-punk, and pop, London’s Check Icicles formed in 2004 from several friends who composed spur-of-the-moment bands and played impromptu gigs. Before arriving in London, Florida-born Sam Merrann relocated to Australia at age group seven and performed in metallic …

A shape-shifting, multifaceted singer/songwriter, composer, acting professional, author, and maker, Houston, Texas-born and London, England-raised polymath Devonté Hynes has recorded under his personal name and with the combustible chillwave clothing Test Icicles, aswell as beneath the pseudonyms Bloodstream Orange (atmospheric and cinematic electro-R&B) and Lightspeed Champ (rootsy, psych-tinged fantasy pop). …