Head Body Legs

HEADBODYLEGS is a genre-fluid trio crafting anticapitalist anthems from the dissonance of modern life. Formed during the pandemic’s digital isolation, we are Adrien Peter (multidisciplinary artist, actor, and satirical wordsmith), Conor James (Los Angeles-based vocal alchemist and The Voice contestant), and Sho Ishikura (New Jersey-based producer-therapist).

Our practice is a non-hierarchical collision of hyperpop, experimental noise, and dark humor—a sonic revolt against the commodification of joy. We work as nomadic scavengers, stitching songs from found samples, layered vocals, and accidental glitches. Our lyrics dissect late-stage capitalism’s absurdities: hedonism as survival, digital alienation, and the fragile hope of rebuilding community. The pandemic forced us to master virtual collaboration; now, we ask how to reclaim physical space without replicating the systems that isolate us. Our process is improvisational, democratic, and defiantly messy. We reject the myth of the solo genius, instead treating music as a communal ritual performed under a full moon. Songs emerge from chaotic digital sample-collaging, traded voice memos, and the hum of broken amplifiers. We blend organic instruments with digital debris—field recordings of protests, ASMR whispers, the hum of a 7-Eleven freezer—to create soundscapes that feel like group therapy for the algorithmically damned.

Our work is a reminder that art can be both a mirror and a hammer: reflecting the world’s fractures, then shattering them.