You can now order your own copy of MNDR’s single “Caligula” on 12-inch vinyl from the Rough Trade online store! This is a super-limited (138) edition release from What The…? Records and is hand numbered.
MNDR’s Amanda Warner is making her music video debut in Mark Ronson’s first single “Bang Bang Bang”. The video was directed by Warren Fu and also features Q-Tip along with some intergalactic breakdancers and other party-goers.
MNDR was given Pitchforks’s “Best New Music” stamp in their review of “I Go Away” from her debut EP.
Brooklyn’s Amanda Warner makes dynamic electro-pop under the moniker MNDR, and she’s been building buzz with her project while also working with folks like Mark Ronson. “I Go Away”, a major highlight from the her debut EP, E.P.E., is filled with distinctive synths that melt all over a spare, echoing drum beat like a candy house left out in the hot sun. It’s a serious slow-dance pop confection, but Warner keeps a clear head lyrically. “I Go Away” initially sounds like a post-relationship-fallout slow burner, as she asks, “How did I get here/ Without feeling anything”. Soon, though, you realize that she isn’t calming down– she’s getting pumped up. “This is my anthem/ I know it like I know everything”, Warner softly declares, as if she’s getting ready to step out in front of the curtain, before letting out titular squeaks during a chorus that favorably evokes Santigold as the track builds to its cathartic peak.
Take a listen for yourself here.
VBS.tv (Vice magazine’s online video haven) just posted a great segment on Mark Ronson as part of their Creator’s Project series with Intel. In the clip Mark talks about his career as a DJ and producer and how his new single “Bang Bang Bang”, featuring MNDR and Q-Tip, came together. Watch out for some great live shots of MNDR at about 3:30. Mark Ronson Creator’s Project
Look out for MNDR playing alongside Mark Ronson at the Creator’s Project on June 25th/26th in NYC.
NME has selected MNDR’s “Fade to Black” for the latest installment of it’s Radar Mixtape series. NME’s Radar Mixtape Volume 3 is stocked with some great other “breakthrough” artists such as Funeral Party, Twin Sister, and MNDR stage-sharer, Class Actress. The mixtape is available as a free download, so get it while it’s hot!
“Bang Bang Bang (feat. MNDR and Q-Tip)” is the first single from Mark Ronson’s forthcoming album Record Collection. The song debuted May 25th on Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 show. “Bang Bang Bang” written by Mark, MNDR, Peter Wade and Q-Tip features additional MNDR style synths provided by Wade and MNDR. Record Collection is due out this fall, but you can hear the premiere of “Bang Bang Bang” here!
Music blog King of the Gigabitches wrote another great review of MNDR’s show at Bowery Ballroom last night. Not gonna paraphrase, just check it out:
How did I just find out about you last night? I can’t really say much about what was going on stage because I was too busy texting my friends in DC about you. I’d like you to teach a course to every other New York “dance” artist out there on how to work a stage. How to use Ableton to sequence your set to that each tracks flows to the next. How to use visuals. Basically, just how to “be.” Get them out. Get them out of music venues and get them into raves. Teach them how people fucking dance…
You did all of this with a 102-degree fever? Fuck. Just. Fuck. I am almost angry that I had never seen you before.
Read the whole review here.
MNDR played a great show with V.V. Brown and Class Actress at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC last night and The Village Voice was on hand to soak it all in. They really loved her projections, calling it a “a hell of a mind-bending spectacle going behind her, a mixture of Atari-style blocky stuff and digital Spirograph fantasias synced up to respond to both her voice and, ideally, ours.” Though of course that’s nothing without “her muscular, blaring gearhead-techno anthems, with startlingly gooey pop centers, are rousing enough; the mighty ‘Fade to Black’ especially.”
As a physical presence, too, Warner is fascinating, with her blocky white glasses and slightly regal, slightly nerdy air, gripping her mic stand with authority and vogue-ing with aplomb. She casually mentions that she was in the ER last night with a fever of 102; her set actually climaxes between songs, where she tests the whole voice-activated light show thing, wherein we all scream and the screen behind her slowly turns solid white. “Now we’re all connected, like string theory,” she announces, satisfied. “Even though string theory is kinda fake.”
Read the whole article on the Village Voice’s website.
WonderSound latest riddim project “Tip Pon Toe” has leaked to the internet. Named after Rihanna’s scorching version (penned by Peter Wade and Angela Hunte (who also penned “New York” for Alicia Keys and Jay-Z)), the “Tip Pon Toe” riddim also features wicked versions from Spragga Benz, Shelene, Don Rey and Stamma Ramma and is now voicing additional artists. Check it out here:
Available soon from WonderSound Records.
For those of you who didn’t get a chance to pick up your copy of MNDR’s E.P.E. release on her recent tours with Yacht and These Are Powers, you can now download it from iTunes! It’s MNDR’s first official release and features four songs we’ve been listening too quite a bit lately here at WonderSound. Get your copy here!
