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.
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!
MNDR has a new split 7-inch out with Angolan kuduro stars Os Mais Potentes. MNDR’s side features an exclusive extended mix of “Jump In” and Os Mais Potentes bring the kuduro hard with their “Yoyo”. It’s part of a series of split 7-inches The Fader and Southern Comfort have been releasing featuring a wide variety of artists from Wavves to Little Boots to M. Ward and Jim James. To get your copy, leave a comment (make sure to use your real email) on Fader’s website. They’ve only got a limited supply so get on that quick!
SESAC just featured MNDR in their Spring 2010 Magazine. Tracking Amanda’s growth from North Dakota to playing with the band Triangle in California’s Bay Area to her work with The Yeah Yeah Yeahs to striking out as front person for MNDR.
MNDR in SESAC's Spring 2010 Magazine
“I make music every day, even if it doesn’t lead anywhere,” she says. “Peter and I will start making sketches in the studio, and things will start to develop. The only rule is that I want to avoid the ‘I want to make a song that sounds like this’ trap. The lyrics come along as the song gets built – I’ll usually have a picture or a story in my head, and together we’ll just kind of let it take us where it will.”
Read the full article online 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.