Internationally-renowned producer and musician Matt Wignall – whose credits include producing and playing with Cold War Kids – returns with his own project, the garage-funk outfit Wargirl.
Long Beach, Southern California. Whilst nearby Los Angeles is where dreams are shattered, in Long Beach people are getting on with their lives. It’s got a strong working class community and is known for its ethnic diversity. Add to that the sunshine and the fabulous beach. “Really,” Matt Wignall says, “Long Beach is what Los Angeles is trying to be: a cosmopolitan and creative sort of place.”
Wignall has been living there for years, runs a studio, seeks out old equipment to repair and prides himself in making it sound better than it ever did before. He produces bands, such as Cold War Kids. With them, Wignall has recorded tracks such as “Hang Me Out to Dry” and “Hospital Beds” with a sound that is to die for. So the interesting question is: Why does a musician who has such an understanding of sound and such awesome equipment not have his own band?
And now he has got one: WARGIRL. After brilliant first gigs, for example at the Clouds Hill Festival in Germany, their first EP “Arbolita” is coming out on the Hamburg-based label Clouds Hill: six tracks straddling funk, dub, disco, garage rock and afrobeat. All fabulously played, and sensationally produced by Wignall.
