Cupid & Psyche

Though they pull from a wide array of '80s and '90s influences, Cupid & Psyche bring together disparate moods and genres through their own esoteric lens on 'Romantic Music' — making for a singular sound that at once feels familiar and alluringly hypnotic.

Listeners will detect the gloom of post-punk and goth, the haziness of dream-pop and shoegaze, the bittersweet guitar melodies of second-wave emo, and the manic electronic rhythms of trip-hop and big beat. Now as Cupid & Psyche, Vidal and Velasquez return to a friendship that creatively feels like home except this time, with more experience, self-knowledge, and less pressure to make anything other than the music that emerges naturally. FOR FANS OF: Abe Vigoda, Garbage, Curve, hysterical love project, a.s.o, Adore era Smashing Pumpkins, Disco Inferno, Daisies, Deftones, an upbeat Bowery Electric.