“Kristin Kontrol represents not so much an artistic pivot as a quantum leap for Kristin "Dee Dee" Welchez, formerly of Dum Dum Girls. Where that project channeled the peppy vocal harmonies and thwacked tambourines of '60s girl groups, Kristin Kontrol fast-forwards two decades and then blasts into the stratosphere from there. Eighties synth-pop provides the foundation for "X-Communicate," the first ”