“Fade to Black”
Reach out your hand
I’ll promise it’s easy
You’ll fade to black
You’ll fade to black
You’ve made your plans
Drawn out your feelings
And now it’s faded black
All around you
The marble cracked
Don’t be so distant
Oh
Out of touch, your touch through my bones
Turns me to white gold
While we fade to black
Underneath my skin, I’m shining
Makes me feel uneasy
Afraid to ask, we fade to black, we will
This is electricity, this is electricity
In four square windows
In added spaces
You’ll fade to black
You’ll fade to black, you will
Typeset on paper
Indents your memory
But now it’s faded black, all around you
People made of wax
You keep your distance, oh
Out of touch, your touch through my bones
Turns me to white gold
While we fade to black
We fade to black
Underneath my skin, I’m shining
Makes me feel uneasy
Afraid to ask, we fade to black, we will
Out of touch
Your touch through my bones
Turns me to white gold
While we fade to black,
We fade to black
Underneath my skin, I’m shining
Makes me feel uneasy
Afraid to ask, we fade to black, we will
Written A. Warner, P. Keusch
Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Peter Wade Keusch
Programming and Synthesizers: Amanda Warner and Peter Wade Keusch
Additional Engineering and Digital Editing: Emmett Farley
Tune in tomorrow night to watch MNDR perform 2 songs on Last Call With Carson Daly! The setlist includes “Fade To Black” and “Cut Me Out.” The all new episode also features Mike Mills and Foster the People. The show starts Tuesday May 24 at 1:35AM EST on NBC.
When MNDR performed recently at Santos Party House, Pitchfork’s Tunnelvision crew was there to capture the show and find out a couple details about how the live show came together. Check out the video here.
UK label, Trouble Records, will be releasing Fade To Black and I Go Away as a double single. It will be available in limited edition silk screened CD, vinyl 7-inch, and digital download on January 10, 2011 and pre-orders are currently filling up. Order yours here.
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!
For those of you who didn’t get a chance to pick up your copy of MNDR’s E.P.E. release on 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!
It was a congregation of abbreviations when NME stopped MNDR to talk about her music at SXSW.
I found out later on that she’s a professional ‘top-line’ writer for numerous mahoosive major label popstars. Combine that fact with a nifty sideline in serious minimal techno disc-spinning and all the pieces of her puzzle begin to fall ever-so-neatly into place. We got chatting afterwards. We covered the same conversational ground you’d expect with any lektro-pop hopeful. Y’know; Black Flag, world economics etc.
Watch video of MNDR live at SXSW and her interview with NME here.
The Fader posted a video and reviewed MNDR’s show on February 16th at the Brooklyn Bowl. Take a look!:
When MNDR played our monthly FADER Bowl, we were convinced the crystal necklace she was wearing was going to shoot lasers out of it, or perhaps assist in her animorphing to a unicorn and spiriting away to save a distant land. While that didn’t happen, she did look pretty superhero-like beneath the pink light of the stage, holding court with yet another one of her future mega-hits. And even if she can’t control the universe with her accessories, she clearly has quite a handle over pixel-stars and synth modules, which is good enough for us if she’s gonna keep making songs like this.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC-Jg2zVdT8
Read more at The Fader.
MNDR’s “Fade to Black” was featured in the Singles File column of the Washington Post. They described it as an “infectious dance-pop track” and we’re tempted to agree.
The one-woman DJ squad MNDR (pronounced “mandar”) is spearheading the second wave of vowel-less electro acts from Brooklyn, aided by this infectious dance-pop track.
Take a listen here.
