Holy Wars
Holy Wars in an american rock band founded by Katherine Pawlak (ex-Sad Robo… Read Full Bio ↴Holy Wars in an american rock band founded by Katherine Pawlak (ex-Sad Robot) in 2017.
Every war has its point of origin, that moment when some long- simmering conflict boiled over. It’s the archduke’s assassination. It’s the sinking of the Maine. For frontwoman Kat Leon, the music she’s created in dark pop powerhouse Holy Wars was precipitated by a sudden change, but at the same time, it was born from an inner conflict that had long been there.In 2015, the Connecticut-born songwriter was fronting the buzzing L.A. indie band Sad Robot, collaborating with musician Nick Perez on the project and taking part in all the attendant stuff: the video, the studio time, the album release, the photo shoots. Then everything stopped.Leon--whose thoughts and work had always been informed by the spectre of death and the occult--lost both parents in short order that year, plunging her into a grief she’d never known. Music stopped for a while, or at least performing did; for the next year, she saw Holy Wars erupt. In early 2017, Leon re-emerged, altered as an artist by her darkest days. Holy Wars became an extrapolation of the turmoil she felt inside: the sacred and the martial intermingled, doubt and hope at once. Leon had penned in Holy Wars’ first collection of songs a set of letters to grief.The twisting chord progressions Holy Wars employs might at times call to mind Radiohead circa OK Computer; the band’s cannon fire riffs and soaring melodies could be likened to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Kat Leon doesn’t whisper or put on airs as a singer; her voice rises from deep down and takes flight. Some musicians have an agenda; some just want to make people dance. This one is another animal altogether. Holy Wars is less a choice for Kat Leon and more an inevitability. The real war is inside, set in motion by personal grief. That she’s able to transform her grief and conflict into these acts of beauty for the rest of us to connect with--that’s the real gift.
Every war has its point of origin, that moment when some long- simmering conflict boiled over. It’s the archduke’s assassination. It’s the sinking of the Maine. For frontwoman Kat Leon, the music she’s created in dark pop powerhouse Holy Wars was precipitated by a sudden change, but at the same time, it was born from an inner conflict that had long been there.In 2015, the Connecticut-born songwriter was fronting the buzzing L.A. indie band Sad Robot, collaborating with musician Nick Perez on the project and taking part in all the attendant stuff: the video, the studio time, the album release, the photo shoots. Then everything stopped.Leon--whose thoughts and work had always been informed by the spectre of death and the occult--lost both parents in short order that year, plunging her into a grief she’d never known. Music stopped for a while, or at least performing did; for the next year, she saw Holy Wars erupt. In early 2017, Leon re-emerged, altered as an artist by her darkest days. Holy Wars became an extrapolation of the turmoil she felt inside: the sacred and the martial intermingled, doubt and hope at once. Leon had penned in Holy Wars’ first collection of songs a set of letters to grief.The twisting chord progressions Holy Wars employs might at times call to mind Radiohead circa OK Computer; the band’s cannon fire riffs and soaring melodies could be likened to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Kat Leon doesn’t whisper or put on airs as a singer; her voice rises from deep down and takes flight. Some musicians have an agenda; some just want to make people dance. This one is another animal altogether. Holy Wars is less a choice for Kat Leon and more an inevitability. The real war is inside, set in motion by personal grief. That she’s able to transform her grief and conflict into these acts of beauty for the rest of us to connect with--that’s the real gift.
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Holy Wars Lyrics
1% MILK Verse 1: Smile bright with the high beams Pearl white teeth…
21ST CENTURY BITCH She's evil she's so sick She's a 21st version century bitch …
BATTERY LIFE Cutting off the dead weight, goodbye Sucking up my battery l…
BODY//TEMPLE Feel my heart, it's dislocated, tripping on a rhythm Paranoi…
BOLT TO THE HEAD I'm a bummer but a real good lover Never go unsatisfied…
BORN DARK First breath of life 3 o'clock in the morning Born to a…
Everyone Is Staring Shut up now you don't even want to know Shut up…
GET MINE Keep it hid. Safe in a deep breath I’m…
I'M MESSY Driving fast Full throttle to the crash Jumping off the edge…
IHATEMYSELF Here I go again, terrified myself I suffocated in these wall…
INTERMISSION Get you something good to eat Popcorn toes and bloody teeth …
Legend Born with a fire, a desire in me I’m a…
LITTLE GODZ I battle with a God inside my brain A torment into…
Mother Father I don't know where I belong Preacher tells me to go…
MY DRUGS ARE DIGITAL I′m spinning high, low Where did the light go? Algorithm fre…
Suck It Up I know you underestimate me What you can't relate or don't…
Tainted Love Sometimes I feel I've got to Run away, I've got to Get…
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