Description
HOLYCHILD formed in college, found their artistic inclinations were in sync, and began making music together. Sure, theres more to that storya long trail of events that stretches from New York art galleries to the sun-baked streets of Los Angeles, where the duo now lives. But both members, Liz Nistico and Louie Diller, are far more concerned with the why behind their twisted electro pop creations than the how of where they are today.
Although in the past they have described their music as the halfway point between Katy Perry and Björk, the pair is more likely to name-check F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Bukowski when describing their glittery dance tunes. The classic authors subverted the written form in order to make readers question their assumptionswhy cant they do the same thing with music? HOLYCHILD call their genre of music, brat pop. Their manifesto is simple but intense.
Its experimental pop, its often sarcastic, and its pretty thick with social commentary, says Nistico. If you make music within pop form, and just having poppy melodies, people are used to consuming that. People will consume that easily with no difficulty. If you are saying something beyond that, thats when you can make people think. We definitely want to reach a very large audience and make them think differently, whether it be about gender roles, or the social economic status of the U.S. right now.
But dont expect HOLYCHILD to waste too much time preaching. From touring alongside the likes of Passion Pit and MØ, to turning NYCs Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) into an electro pop rave, theyre out to make the kind of music thats aimed in equal parts at the intellect and lust.
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