I play it on guitar and it kind of gives me the goosebumps in a weird way or just makes me really sad. I think that the third song on the record, "(Don't) Wannabe," as a song, is my favorite. I really enjoy that the songs are pretty different. I've seen thus far that people are really picking up on a few of them, but I don't know if there's really any one that dominates.ĭo you have a favorite track on the album? Like, "Oh, well this song kind of touches on 90s English guitar stuff," or "This song has a very early 2000s kind of hip-hop or some reggae." There's ten different things that are going into it. But then there are still a lot of little tidbits that you can pick out from that. So I opened it up to the first music that I loved as a little kid, which was all of that late '80s super pop stuff that has the big dance beats on it. It's not like I turned my back on the kind of music that you could hear on Dum Dum Girls-I just also decided to incorporate a lot of other new things. The music was obviously just the biggest thing.
Besides the sound, what are some other changes that you pursued? I've noticed that your music has taken on a more '80s or '90s pop feel.
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But it wasn't that I said, "Fuck this, I'm gonna do something brand new." It was more that I said I'm not gonna worry about how it was all gonna fall into place later. I'm just gonna make music that I want to make and we'll figure out how to release it and a way to serve it later. KK: I think for me it was really just reaching the realization that I probably couldn't do a lot of what I wanted and still have it exist as Dum Dum Girls. So it was the creative freedom that really drove you to pursue an independent music career? I wanted to follow the song wherever it goes instead of feeling like I need to keep in mind what Dum Dum Girls sounds like, how to play it and what people would expect. It took a lot longer than I anticipated, I think because I was trying to do things pretty differently, in an attempt to proactively expand on the sound and incorporate a lot of things that I had not been able to prior. Kristin Kontrol: I basically finished up touring the last Dum Dum Girls record at the very end of 2014 and I started writing what would eventually become X-Communicate late January of 2015. Harper's BAZAAR: You first started working on X-Communicate in 2015, what was the process like? The artist spoke to about what it was like making her solo album, and what changes (including sartorial ones) she made along the way.
With X-Communicate, Kristin is enjoying the freedom in writing, singing and wearing whatever she pleases. Though she appears on the cover of her debut album dressed in all black, the music itself brings in plenty of color with its '80s pop and electro influences-an apparent change from the Dum Dum Girls' signature sound. The singer gives off an edgy but retro air, which you can probably blame on her jet black hair, red lips and cleverly-curated vintage wardrobe. It's a name that reflects her fledgling solo career, freedom with writing music and her long-time email address. Now you can call her by her new name, Kristin Kontrol. About eight years ago, Kristin Welchez was better known as Dee Dee, founder and frontwoman of Dum Dum Girls, her black-leather-clad garage-rock outfit.