Photo by Kristopher Kirk

Ahead of last and this coming weekend’s Coachella, KUMO 99 take the stage ahead of UK rap-punks Bob Vylan and nu-gaze It girl WISP. If none of this logic makes sense to you, then that’s even better. The Los Angeles hyper hard electronic duo of Ami Komai and Nate Donmoyer have become a perplexing-to-pin-down sonic force within the scene. Which scene you ask? Well, that would depend on if you’re seeing them at a hardcore fest like Sound and Fury or at a gothic new wave festival like Substance LA, or — in the case of the present — smashing senses somewhere between all of the louder genres. For the uninitiated, “Eyesore”, their latest single, is a mutant electron bomb formed by jungle and dub particles fast-stepping to a hardcore energy once the fuse is lit. You don’t need to be fluent in Komai’s Japanese tongue to understand this track is an all-out confrontation as much as it is a rager, while Donmoyer — no stranger to bursting synths as a former drummer of Passion Pit — toys with its intensity in how much hype they can collectively pack into the pit before it explodes. You don’t need to know what to call it in order to know that destruction is its end game.

KUMO 99’s “Eyesore” single is available now.