In Endless Awe & Agony , the debut album from Filipino Australian artist daine , fizzes over with voices like a shaken-up Pepsi. Woven throughout the hyperactive production are distortion-smothered field recordings and dialogue samples, chopped-up smatterings of daine’s own vocal, and the occasional canned “Woo!” On “Product of Profit (P.O.P),” daine themself is both angelic Jekyll and vengeful Hyde: “I’ll have your head,” they intone sweetly on the song’s lullaby-esque chorus, while screams rage in the background. It’s a visceral distillation of what they’re best known for: walking a winding path between disparate screamo and hyperpop influences. It also sounds like the exorcism of a lot of genuine frustration.

“I’ve been in the mud,” daine told NME recently, reflecting on the six years that led up to the release of their debut. The 23-year-old musician first broke through as a teenager in 2020, with a string of emo-cloud-rap singles.…