“When people try to describe our music we really laugh our asses off, whether it’s bad or good it always… somehow… sounds ridiculous…” –Luki
It’s not hard to see why, Berlin’s Warren Suicide are about to change the way the world looks at pop music. A perfect premise really, electro beats, feedback charged guitars & a cartoon character from the very bowels of hell itself. Imagine if you will, ‘Gorillaz’ with fantastic songs, perfect stage presence & none of the pretentious world music Albarn & co. so wrongly patronised. This is definitely for grown ups with a sense of humour – but that’s not to say singer Luki, guitarist Nackt and soundscape engineer Cherie don’t take their work seriously.
Rewind three years and Luki and Nackt completely sick of the music industry decide to write songs for none but their own amusement…
“Cherie painted Warren’s face at the same time in the next room…” Soft spoken Nackt casually informs us (Nackt and Cherie are partners). “We listened to the track (‘Warren Suicide’) and decided this face should be our cover…” Thus Warren Suicide was born, which you actually get to witness on a giant screen at the beginning of their live shows. No, not the character being painted but the much stickier business of him entering the world as a baby. Set to a sound track of his mothers agonising screams it goes down as the best stage entrance this writer has ever seen.
You may have heard single ‘Butcher Boy’--Pounding techno beats, a guitar riff that can pierce skin and punch drunk vocals and what a chorus. Cherie’s sexy hushed tones slink beautifully over a gorgeous melody that’s as dark as it is uplifting. Performed live she jumps up and down and wriggles over the stage like a cat with its tail on fire. In short four essential minutes of music that will have anyone that hears it completely hooked. Talking to them after their Liverpool gig all three were completely charming and incredibly witty. It really is just a matter of time before they have the world at their feet.
“We have played Amsterdam, Madrid, Belgium Paris…Austria, Switzerland; it’s a lot of gigging, travelling and a lot of fun. We play a lot of electronic places and it’s a bit different to rock venues…” Luki tells us. “The clubs have more money and they fly you in, you play at 3am & then party and your back on the plane for like 5pm” Cherie concludes.
The fact that they quite naturally play both electro and rock crowds is testament to how unique their sound is. “I love techno…” Guitarist Nackt divulges “but also I love The Beatles”. You can hear this in their music as they take in the best bits from Rock n’ Roll (performance, growling guitars and attitude) and mesh with it pounding rhythms and dazzling bleeps to form a hybrid that never once sounds laboured.
With Electronica back on the right path and Rock n’ Roll enjoying an almost golden age the scene is set for Warren Suicide’s twisted take on everything -- Songs about holding the white house to siege with cheerleaders and (naturally) suicide we need them. At the risk of making the band fall over in hysterics I’ll attempt to describe their music in one word…Wunderbar.
Cherie Luki and Nackt & their combined alter ego will this year own the festival circuit. Their (extended & revamped) album is due for release in the upcoming months (on Fume records) & whatever lengths you have to go to to own it, robbing old ladies even, I suggest you do…
Or Warren will get you…
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