On the Sir EP, Hecuba explore a wide variety of musical ideas, beginning
with the dark dub gospel of the original “Sir,” and moving through down-tempo sad dance
cartoon music, to train-yard work song, abstract techno, and even straight-up doo-wop
exaltations. Never easily categorized, Hecuba’s music has been likened to everything from a hiphop
dance party, to a punk electronic explosion, to something more introspective and strange.
Devendra Banhart calls Hecuba the “best band in LA” (Harp Magazine). City Beat described a
Hecuba performance as “syncretic pandemonium...brimming with punk, prog, hip-hop, and a
kind of bracing dada,” while the LA Weekly says, “I was shocked. And in this day and age it is
damn hard to be shocked. They are performers in a true sense.”