Dum Dum Girls' Dee Dee announces debut LP as Kristin Kontrol
Kristin Kontrol (aka Kristin Welchez, aka Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls) announces her debut record X-Communicate and shares the title track.
Speaking about the new project, Kontrol says: "For me as leader of Dum Dum Girls it felt very stoic and serious, and I am serious, but anyone who really knows me knows I'm silly, too; I smile a lot. As the years went on, it was so weird that I kept so much of me out of what I was doing creatively... the first music I really identified as my own was very poppy, classic '80s, from Debbie Gibson and Tiffany to Janet Jackson and Madonna. I didn't want to make a record with typical rock vocals."
62 songs were originally written for X-Communicate, which Kontrol then shaved down to 10 for the final release.
X-Communicate is out 27 May via Sub Pop. Kurt Feldman (of Ice Choir and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart) and Andrew Miller have produced the LP.
Stream "X-Communicate" below. The album's tracklist can be found after.
Tracklist:
1. Show Me
2. White Street
3. (Don't) Wannabe
4. X-Communicate
5. Skin Shed
6. Drive The Night
7. What Is Love
8. Face 2 Face
9. Going Thru The Motions
10. Smoke Rings
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