Kevin Bronson on September 13th, 2019

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There’s no shortage of bands in Los Angeles right now who are using the template of 1990s grunge, shoegaze and alternative rock to make bold statements (and for those who delineate by gender, there’s a solid two-day festival’s worth of female-fronted rock bands grabbing headlines). Add WRENN to the party.

The quartet today released its first single since 2017, “Psychosexual,” a searing rocker that takes on an increasingly common theme: the fact that we all seem to be actors in the life stories we shape on social media.

WRENN is fronted by self-professed “sad girl” Zoe Mirkovich, daughter of Paul Mirkovich (sideman for the likes of Cher and Janet Jackson and currently the musical director on “The Voice”). She started the project as a teenager and made a splash with the slow-burning single “You,” released in 2016.

“Psychosexual” takes things next-level, embodying her mantra “angry in the best way.”

“The creative air which inspired the song revolved around the intersection of the physical, emotional and digital world, and what self-sacrifices are necessary to exist in the strange Reuleaux triangle created from them,” the songwriter says. “‘Pyschosexual’ is a conversation on how technology has a visually external impact on the way we live out our lives today. The ‘what would you do for attention’ line is a commentary on the cyclical, self-sacrifice and toxic modernity we all are seemingly forced into via social media. It’s a partial takedown of the bullshit ‘influencers’ do, but is aware of how we all are secretly taking notes on their soul-sucking tactics for our own ‘internet personas.’”

||| Stream: “Psychosexual”