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.
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!
Brooklyn Vegan posted MNDR’s track “I Go Away” on their website as a free download as a follow up to their announcement of MNDR’s upcoming tour with YACHT. Listen to the “I Go Away” here.
Snowboard-inspired outdoors wear company, Isaora, has featured MNDR’s unreleased “I Go Away” as the musical backdrop in their launch video for their debut collection. Check out men’s and women’s fashions in the Isaora online store and of course, the video below:
