Hyd, Umru

Hayden Dunham was born in Austin, but if you encountered them as “virtual popstar” QT, the erstwhile performance artist may as well have been from Mars. Vapid and inhumanly airbrushed, their essence directly distilled into a tie-in energy beverage (DrinkQT). QT epitomized the slick, bubbly corporate satire that made PC Music the 2010’s avant-EDM du jour. Following a half-decade musical break, Dunham has returned to the British label to reintroduce themself as, well, a human from Austin. This is intimate, deeply felt synthpop. Deconstructed club producer umru and local sample soothsayer L.Cie open. – Julian Towers