Kristin Kontrol Announces Headline Tour in Support of Debut Album 'X-Communicate'

Kristin Kontrol is the new project from Kristin Welchez - fka Dee Dee, leader of internationally acclaimed rock outfit Dum Dum Girls. Dum Dum Girls was Kristin's guise for the best part of a decade. After posting her bedroom recordings online, she caught the ears of Sub Pop, assembled a group of badass, black-clad cadets and toured the world. Over the course of three albums, four EPs and numerous singles, Dum Dum Girls morphed from the girl group-gone-bad moves of debut album I Will Be (2010), to the comparatively plush noir-pop of 2014's Too True.

Now she's shed her skin, ditching Dee Dee - the name she had assumed for Dum Dum Girls

- for her given name, Kristin. She recorded X-Communicate with producers Kurt Feldman (of Ice Choir) and Andrew Miller (who played guitar in the Dum Dum Girls' last incarnation).
"She's hitting reset, forcing us to rise to the occasion and see female creators as something more than our preconceptions," said MTV News. Stereogum observed, "Kristin Kontrol is radically different from anything we would've expected from Welchez as Dee Dee. It draws on various strains of pop from various eras, collapsing them together into slick, infectious synth-pop... X-Communicate and the evolution into Kristin Kontrol show Welchez becoming an absolute machine when it comes to hooks."

"Kristin Kontrol's first album is a comet-powerful, bright, and trailing glitter as it goes...a

smashingly fun debut album that will leave you hungry for more," said Bust. "Yes, this is a dance- pop record, but think a modern spin on Kate Bush's The Hounds of Love, Siouxsie and the Banshees' Tinderbox," noted Under the Radar. Idolator said, "The title track takes Berlin's buoyant synth-pop and gives it a goth nail polish sheen, and it features some

of the strongest vocals of her career."