MNDR

MNDR serves as both the synth pop identity of Amanda Warner and the production-songwriting partnership she maintains with Peter Wade. Warner acquired her earliest recording skills from her father, who had constructed a four-track reel-to-reel setup inside the basement of the family farmhouse in Fargo, North Dakota; during her teenage years she independently mastered beat programming. While attending college she launched the electropop outfit Triangle, which issued two EPs and a pair of full-length albums across its active span.

Warner relocated to New York City in 2009 with the goal of establishing herself as a songwriter and soon connected with producer Wade, who had just founded his WonderSound imprint. In addition to their joint work, she contributed bass to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ 2009 album It’s Blitz! and created a touring keyboard rig for the group. MNDR’s first single, “C.L.U.B.,” appeared in March 2009, followed a year later by the EP E.P.E. on WonderSound. Also in 2010 Warner joined Mark Ronson on the lead single “Bang Bang Bang” from his third album Record Collection and spent the next twelve months on the road with him. After inking a deal with Ultra Records in 2011, MNDR issued the Patty Hearst-inspired single “#1 in Heaven” and the debut album Feed Me Diamonds in 2012.

That same year MNDR toured with Duran Duran, an association that later prompted Wade to remix “Beautiful Clothes” for the Duran Duran offshoot TV Mania in 2013 and led Warner to substitute for keyboardist Nick Rhodes on portions of the band’s 2016 U.S. trek supporting Paper Gods. Throughout this period MNDR lent her voice to numerous projects, among them the 2013 RAC single “Let Go” featuring Kele, Sweet Valley’s 2015 EP Dance 4 a Dollar, Michna’s 2015 track “Solid Gold,” and Flume’s “Like Water” from the Grammy-winning album Skin, while also teaming with Jai Wolf, Charli XCX, and AlunaGeorge. MNDR stayed active through 2017, rejoining RAC and working with Martin Solveig and Oliver. In June the duo and Scissor Sisters unveiled “SWERLK,” issued to mark the first anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub Massacre and to support the Contigo Fund, a Central Florida organization serving LGBTQ and Latinx communities.