# Jenny Lee Lindberg
**Jenny Lee Lindberg** (born 1981 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American musician, songwriter, and producer, best known as the bassist of the Los Angeles rock band Warpaint, which she co-founded in 2004, and for her solo work released under the moniker **jennylee**.[1](https://issuemagazine.com/jennylee-2/) • [2](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0003453006) She released her debut solo album, *right on!*, in 2015 on [Rough Trade Records](https://www.edgepedia.org/rough-trade-records), and her second solo album, *Heart Tax*, in 2022.[1](https://issuemagazine.com/jennylee-2/) • [3](https://bassmagazine.com/issues/issue-11/jenny-lee-lindberg-deep-radiations/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 1981 in Honolulu, Hawaii; raised in Reno, Nevada[2](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0003453006) • [4](https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/28448/1/jenny-lee-lindberg-true-spirit) |
| Main band | Co-founder and bassist of Warpaint since 2004[1](https://issuemagazine.com/jennylee-2/) |
| Solo moniker | jennylee, a name she adopted for solo work announced in September 2015[5](https://pitchfork.com/news/61020-warpaints-jenny-lee-lindberg-announces-solo-album-as-jennylee-right-on/) |
| Debut solo album | *right on!*, released December 11, 2015 via Rough Trade; ten tracks recorded at Happy Ending Studios in Silverlake, California[5](https://pitchfork.com/news/61020-warpaints-jenny-lee-lindberg-announces-solo-album-as-jennylee-right-on/) |
| Second solo album | *Heart Tax*, an upbeat indie-pop record on which the bass was the last part composed for each song[3](https://bassmagazine.com/issues/issue-11/jenny-lee-lindberg-deep-radiations/) |
| Signature gear | Rickenbacker 4001 bass with an ever-present Boss chorus pedal[3](https://bassmagazine.com/issues/issue-11/jenny-lee-lindberg-deep-radiations/) |
## Warpaint
Lindberg co-founded Warpaint in Los Angeles in 2004 and has played bass with the band throughout its recording career.[1](https://issuemagazine.com/jennylee-2/) She grew up in [Reno, Nevada](https://www.edgepedia.org/reno-nevada), where creative outlets were limited; she sang in choir in elementary school and played harmonica because it was cheap, and has said her mother would not buy her the piano she wanted.[6](https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/jenny-lee)
The band's self-titled second album reached the top 10 of the Billboard Independent Albums chart in 2014, and the band played main-stage sets at Coachella and [Glastonbury](https://www.edgepedia.org/glastonbury) that year.[6](https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/jenny-lee) Lindberg's bass playing is widely described as central to the band's sound: Pitchfork wrote that her "inventive bass playing grounds Warpaint's lush, painterly compositions," and the [Evening Standard](https://www.edgepedia.org/evening-standard) called her the band's "bassist and presiding spirit," whose figures anchor the compositions.[7](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21309-right-on/) • [8](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/jennylee-right-on-album-review-a3135821.html) Her sister, the actress [Shannyn Sossamon](https://www.edgepedia.org/shannyn-sossamon), was also an early member of the band.[4](https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/28448/1/jenny-lee-lindberg-true-spirit)
## right on! (2015)
Lindberg announced her solo project under the name jennylee in September 2015, with the debut album *right on!* released on December 11 via Rough Trade.[5](https://pitchfork.com/news/61020-warpaints-jenny-lee-lindberg-announces-solo-album-as-jennylee-right-on/) She had wanted to make a solo record for a long time but hesitated; work began in earnest around late 2013, during breaks from touring Warpaint's self-titled album, and her husband, the filmmaker [Chris Cunningham](https://www.edgepedia.org/chris-cunningham), encouraged her to put out her own music.[6](https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/jenny-lee) • [9](https://www.drownedinsound.org/archive-i-m-a-perfectionist-but-i-m-flexible-too-dis-meets-jenny-lee-lindberg-4149661/) • [10](https://www.theaureview.com/music/jenny-lee-lindberg-on-stepping-out-from-warpaint-going-solo-with-debut-album-right-on/)
**Recording.** The album was recorded at Happy Ending Studios in Silverlake, California, co-produced by Lindberg with Norm Block, an old friend who also engineered and played drums.[5](https://pitchfork.com/news/61020-warpaints-jenny-lee-lindberg-announces-solo-album-as-jennylee-right-on/) • [10](https://www.theaureview.com/music/jenny-lee-lindberg-on-stepping-out-from-warpaint-going-solo-with-debut-album-right-on/) Collaborators included Warpaint drummer [Stella Mozgawa](https://www.edgepedia.org/stella-mozgawa), guitarist Dan Elkan ([Broken Bells](https://www.edgepedia.org/broken-bells), Them Hills), Tony Bevilaqua (Spinnerette), and Jonathan Hischke (Dot Hacker).[5](https://pitchfork.com/news/61020-warpaints-jenny-lee-lindberg-announces-solo-album-as-jennylee-right-on/) • [10](https://www.theaureview.com/music/jenny-lee-lindberg-on-stepping-out-from-warpaint-going-solo-with-debut-album-right-on/) What began as a planned ten days of recording stretched into two and a half months, an open-ended process Lindberg described as having no rules and no self-imposed limitations.[4](https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/28448/1/jenny-lee-lindberg-true-spirit)
**Sound and reception.** The record mixes the goth and [new wave music](https://www.edgepedia.org/new-wave-music) Lindberg grew up on, including [The Cure](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-cure), Depeche Mode, New Order, Joy Division, Bauhaus, and Siouxsie & The Banshees, with Warpaint's spacious dream pop.[2](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0003453006) • [4](https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/28448/1/jenny-lee-lindberg-true-spirit) Pitchfork called it subtle and immaculately produced, praising how the bass drives the songwriting on tracks such as "boom boom" and "never" while noting that a few tracks meander.[7](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21309-right-on/) The Guardian's review was more critical, finding the music hazy and understated but lacking gratifying melodies, and describing lead single "Never" as pairing a Transmission-esque bassline with wayward drums.[11](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/03/jennylee-right-on-review-jenny-lee-lindberg-warpaint) The album's ten tracks run from "blind" to "real life," and include "bully," "riot," "offerings," "white devil," and "he fresh," the last an ode to her husband.[5](https://pitchfork.com/news/61020-warpaints-jenny-lee-lindberg-announces-solo-album-as-jennylee-right-on/) • [6](https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/jenny-lee)
For the solo shows that followed, Lindberg moved from her usual place behind the bass to frontwoman, touring with an all-male backing band and ceding bass duties to a live player.[4](https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/28448/1/jenny-lee-lindberg-true-spirit) • [12](https://www.gigwise.com/features/105130/warpaint-jennylee-interview-on-freedom-solo-touring-the-future/) She described the project as liberating after Warpaint's fully democratic writing process, where she was for the first time the sole person in charge.[12](https://www.gigwise.com/features/105130/warpaint-jennylee-interview-on-freedom-solo-touring-the-future/)
## Heart Tax and recent work
After a six-year gap, jennylee returned in October 2021 with "Newtopia," her first new solo music since 2015, a song she described as being about being her own best friend, followed by a series of indie-styled seven-inch singles at the tail end of 2021.[13](https://www.nme.com/?p=3075062) • [14](https://www.guitarworld.com/features/jenny-lee-warpaint-radiate-like-this)
During the pandemic, Lindberg relocated to Utah for three years and wrote, recorded, and released her sophomore solo album, *Heart Tax*, while simultaneously finishing Warpaint's fourth studio album, *Radiate Like This*; the two releases came out close to each other, and she worked on both at once, tracking Warpaint vocals remotely over Zoom.[3](https://bassmagazine.com/issues/issue-11/jenny-lee-lindberg-deep-radiations/) *Heart Tax* has a prominent, upbeat indie-pop feel centered on her vocals, with the bass written last on every song so she could interplay with the finished arrangements.[3](https://bassmagazine.com/issues/issue-11/jenny-lee-lindberg-deep-radiations/) She has also worked as a producer for other artists, producing the 2022 record *T.E.A.R.S* by the project Spring Summer, the moniker of singer-songwriter Jennifer Furches.[15](https://talkhouse.com/spring-summer-and-jenny-lee-lindberg-warpaint-on-how-t-e-a-r-s-came-together)
## Bass playing and gear
Lindberg took up bass at 18 or 19, after moving to Los Angeles from Reno; drums felt impractical for her living situation and guitar did not appeal to her, so a friend in Reno simply gave her a bass and an amp.[3](https://bassmagazine.com/issues/issue-11/jenny-lee-lindberg-deep-radiations/) • [14](https://www.guitarworld.com/features/jenny-lee-warpaint-radiate-like-this) She took four or five lessons, then taught herself through obsessive daily practice of scales, her own basslines, and playing along to drum machines.[14](https://www.guitarworld.com/features/jenny-lee-warpaint-radiate-like-this) Her summary of the instrument: "bass is easy to learn but really hard to get good at."[3](https://bassmagazine.com/issues/issue-11/jenny-lee-lindberg-deep-radiations/)
Her consistent setup is a [Rickenbacker](https://www.edgepedia.org/rickenbacker) 4001 bass, chosen for its brightness and clarity and how it responds to chords, paired with a Boss chorus pedal; she also owns a 1978 [Fender Precision Bass](https://www.edgepedia.org/fender-precision-bass) with flatwound strings and a late-1950s or early-1960s Kay bass, on which she often writes lines before playing them on the Rickenbacker.[3](https://bassmagazine.com/issues/issue-11/jenny-lee-lindberg-deep-radiations/) • [14](https://www.guitarworld.com/features/jenny-lee-warpaint-radiate-like-this) She has said she composes repetitively, treating a basic bass or guitar skeleton as a blank canvas over which to find vocal melodies and counter-rhythms, and cites Jah Wobble of Public Image Ltd and [Bernard Edwards](https://www.edgepedia.org/bernard-edwards) among the bassists she studied when learning.[3](https://bassmagazine.com/issues/issue-11/jenny-lee-lindberg-deep-radiations/) • [14](https://www.guitarworld.com/features/jenny-lee-warpaint-radiate-like-this)
## References
1. [Jennylee, Issue Magazine](https://issuemagazine.com/jennylee-2/)
2. [jennylee Biography, AllMusic](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0003453006)
3. [Jenny Lee Lindberg: Deep Radiations, Bass Magazine (January 9, 2023)](https://bassmagazine.com/issues/issue-11/jenny-lee-lindberg-deep-radiations/)
4. [Jenny Lee Lindberg: true spirit, Dazed (November 18, 2015)](https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/28448/1/jenny-lee-lindberg-true-spirit)
5. [Warpaint's Jenny Lee Lindberg Announces Solo Album as jennylee, right on!, Pitchfork (September 15, 2015)](https://pitchfork.com/news/61020-warpaints-jenny-lee-lindberg-announces-solo-album-as-jennylee-right-on/)
6. [Jenny Lee, Interview Magazine (December 10, 2015)](https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/jenny-lee)
7. [jennylee: right on! Album Review, Pitchfork (December 8, 2015)](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21309-right-on/)
8. [jennylee - right on!, album review, London Evening Standard (December 11, 2015)](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/jennylee-right-on-album-review-a3135821.html)
9. ["I'm a perfectionist, but I'm flexible, too" - DiS meets Jenny Lee Lindberg, Drowned in Sound (January 21, 2016)](https://www.drownedinsound.org/archive-i-m-a-perfectionist-but-i-m-flexible-too-dis-meets-jenny-lee-lindberg-4149661/)
10. [Jenny Lee Lindberg on stepping out from Warpaint & going solo with debut album right on!, The AU Review (January 15, 2016)](https://www.theaureview.com/music/jenny-lee-lindberg-on-stepping-out-from-warpaint-going-solo-with-debut-album-right-on/)
11. [Jennylee: Right On! review, The Guardian (December 3, 2015)](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/03/jennylee-right-on-review-jenny-lee-lindberg-warpaint)
12. [Jennylee: 'I have nothing to lose, let's have some fun', Gigwise (January 25, 2016)](https://www.gigwise.com/features/105130/warpaint-jennylee-interview-on-freedom-solo-touring-the-future/)
13. [Warpaint's JennyLee shares first new music since 2015 with 'Newtopia', NME (October 20, 2021)](https://www.nme.com/?p=3075062)
14. [Jennylee: "Bass is a really easy instrument to learn, but it's a really hard instrument to get good at", Guitar World (April 7, 2022)](https://www.guitarworld.com/features/jenny-lee-warpaint-radiate-like-this)
15. [Spring Summer and Jenny Lee Lindberg (Warpaint) on How T.E.A.R.S Came Together, Talkhouse (September 16, 2022)](https://talkhouse.com/spring-summer-and-jenny-lee-lindberg-warpaint-on-how-t-e-a-r-s-came-together)
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