Artists We Love: Painted Face 04/05/2011
Painted Face
(by Dawn Reed) Recently we caught up with Mexico City born/DC based electronic dance artist, Allie Alvarado, aka Painted Face at the U Street Hall Music Hall before she opened up for Australian dance pop band, Miami Horror. She had just completed a tour across the states, including a showcase at SxSW put together by the magazine about female drummers, Tom Tom Magazine, and even held a workshop via the event on beat making. This chick rocks.
After achieving a couple college degrees up in New York (one in Biology!), and performing in Brooklyn based bands Blood Lines and Telepathe (pronounced "telepathy"), Alvarado made her way back to DC to collaborate on some songs with her dance music producer brother Alvin Risk. The result was truly amazing...(see my EP album review below.) Now, she's currently back in the studio working on some more dance floor smashes, and knock on wood, a music video in the works- which we will definitely air once completed! Check out this title track of her EP Undreamt, and the review that got her Album of the Month in the DC Deli Magazine.
After achieving a couple college degrees up in New York (one in Biology!), and performing in Brooklyn based bands Blood Lines and Telepathe (pronounced "telepathy"), Alvarado made her way back to DC to collaborate on some songs with her dance music producer brother Alvin Risk. The result was truly amazing...(see my EP album review below.) Now, she's currently back in the studio working on some more dance floor smashes, and knock on wood, a music video in the works- which we will definitely air once completed! Check out this title track of her EP Undreamt, and the review that got her Album of the Month in the DC Deli Magazine.
***"Undreamt" is the genius debut EP from DC's Painted Face, the solo project of Allie Alvarado (formerly of Telepathe and Blood Lines) in collaboration with producer Alvin Risk. Fans of Kate Bush and Bat For Lashes ought to include this gem in their collection of pop shoegazey-driven dance anthem albums, with swirly chants found in every hit after hit track on this "I can't believe she's not playing arenas yet" EP.
The title track 'Undreamt' oozes lushy synths with layers of spiraling keys over a beat that urges your whole body to let go as Alvarado's bewitching voice croons "So if you feel it, you better make the first move..."
'Favorite One' is a beautiful ballad delivered over spasms of glitch melting into 'Sum of Me', an energetic track where Alvarado questions "did you ever know the truth, did you ever try?"
Ending the EP is 'Girls in Love', which transports you to mid 80's pop in the first few seconds before taking a giant leap back to the future of electronica and riding the synth waves 'til the end, where you just want more. Until an LP is revealed, we can always just hit the repeat button. Love it.***
The title track 'Undreamt' oozes lushy synths with layers of spiraling keys over a beat that urges your whole body to let go as Alvarado's bewitching voice croons "So if you feel it, you better make the first move..."
'Favorite One' is a beautiful ballad delivered over spasms of glitch melting into 'Sum of Me', an energetic track where Alvarado questions "did you ever know the truth, did you ever try?"
Ending the EP is 'Girls in Love', which transports you to mid 80's pop in the first few seconds before taking a giant leap back to the future of electronica and riding the synth waves 'til the end, where you just want more. Until an LP is revealed, we can always just hit the repeat button. Love it.***
