Dylan Hadley and Cole Berliner used to make giddy art-pop together in the band Kamikaze Palm Tree. Now, they’ve got a new group called Sharpie Smile. Sharpie Smile are named after a Kamikaze Palm Tree song, but the music is all different. In Sharpie Smile, Hadley and Berliner make tough, bleepy synthpop that owes something to the Knife and 100 gecs. Berliner’s vocals are shot through a ton of filters, and Berliner’s production is sometimes soothing and sometimes intensely sleek. Often, it’s both at once.
