TEO.x3 named their debut EP iDidntMeanToGhostYouButMyWifiCrashedAgain, which tells you most of what you need to know about their approach to hyperpop. The title is too long, deliberately chaotic, and reads like an inside joke.
The lead single “sprite,” featuring pop icon Tamta, has racked up over 210k streams since dropping in November. It’s a track about hiding emotional chaos behind shiny distractions, and the production matches that premise perfectly. Glitch textures layer over sugar-rush melodies, everything pushed to the edge without tipping into noise. Tamta’s vocals cut through with precision, adding an alt-pop sharpness that keeps the track from collapsing under its own weight.
The hook is sticky, annoyingly so, in the best way. “Have you ever seen a sexy person drinking sprite? Me neither” shouldn’t work as a lyric, but it does. It’s the kind of hyperaware whimsy that makes hyperpop either click or completely alienate you. Here, it clicks because there’s actual emotion underneath the gloss. This isn’t just chaos for chaos’s sake.
TEO.x3 describes wanting to blend vintage synth warmth with glitch and ASMR textures around a punchy pop melody, and that’s what you get, though “blend” undersells how densely packed this production is. Every element competes for space, which could be exhausting, but the track moves fast enough that it works. By the time you register one sound, it’s already shifted to something else.
The London-Athens artist has been building toward this. His credits include music for Prada, Dsquared2, and Camper, plus collaborations with RuPaul’s Drag Race star Charity Kase. He produced Tamta’s entire album THE VILLAIN HEROINE earlier this year, which makes sense given how well their styles complement each other here. Tamta’s been in the game long enough (Eurovision, 250 million streams, major Pride performances) that she knows exactly how to navigate this kind of maximalist production without getting lost in it.
London underground producer JEONNE recently remixed “sprite,” stripping away some of the glitter and leaning into the anxiety underneath. It’s a darker, club focused take that reveals how much tension was sitting beneath the original’s shiny surface.
As debut singles go, “sprite” does what it needs to: establishes a sound, gets stuck in your head, and makes you curious about what comes next. The full EP delivers more of the same, restless, overstimulated, and refusing to sit still. A remixed edition is coming in early 2026 with new vocalists and bonus tracks, which feels appropriate for a project that’s already this layered.
“sprite” gets it right because heartbreak doesn’t always sound like a ballad. Sometimes it sounds like this, frantic, overstimulated, trying too hard to distract yourself.
“Sprite” is out now.
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Below is the remix of “sprite” by JEONNE
