Kristin Welchez used to front the indie rock outfit the Dum Dum Girls as Dee Dee, but has recently taken up a new moniker for her solo pop project, Kristin Kontrol. This week, Sub Pop Records officially shared the release date of the debut solo record, X-Communicate, and shared the title track from the highly anticipated album, which will be available May 27, 2016. Listen to this new song and check out the album's tracklist below!
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According to Consequence of Sound, Welchez's Kristin Kontrol project's first record was produced by Dum Dum Girls producer Richard Gottehrer, along with Kurt Feldman and Andrew Miller.
Listen to "X-Communicate" right here:
As you can imagine, the pop sound of Kristin's new project is very different than the Dum Dum Girls. Leading up to this week's record announcement, Welchez explained in a new press release her desire to create a pop album and how Kristin Kontrol came to be.
"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," she explained. "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."
The album artwork for X-Communicate is at the top of this page, but you can check out the tracklist right here:
01. Show Me
02. White Street
03. (Don't) Wannabe
04. X-Communicate
05. Skin Shed
06. Drive the Night
07. What is Love
08. Face 2 Face
09. Going Thru the Motions
10. Smoke Rings
