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Gavin B. · 11-17-2010, 12:42 PM

Warpaint Delivers On Highly Anticipated Debut Album

Warpaint- Reverb soaked psychedelic music with ethereal female vocals

Last year the Los Angeles based quartet (until recently a trio) Warpaint released Exquisite Corpse, an EP of hypnotic, reverb soaked, dirge tempo neo-psychedelic music with ethereal vocals by three female members of the band. Exquisite Corpse was a self produced effort which created enough buzz to land Warpaint a contract with Rough Trade. Warpaint developed a cult following outside of their own So-Cal regional base with a regional Northeastern tour with Beach Fossils, the Brooklyn based haze pop crew.

Neither Exquisite Corpse or their highly anticipated Rough Trade debut The Fool (released on October 26), fully captures their brain-melded live performances in which their delicate and ghost like vocals float in a fine mist of guitars. On stage, each song reinvents itself within a constantly shifting array of tempos & themes.

To be honest, Warpaint's Rough Trade debut, The Fool doesn't open up any new musical ground or deviate from the script of the Exquisite Corpse musical project, but more of the same from Warpaint is a good thing. I'm a true believer in the band and I've given their two recordings a humongous amount of airplay on my college radio show.

In today's musical environment of low-fi man-with-a-laptop performers, Warpaint challenges the notion that rock music bands are only recycling old trends. Post rockers argue that earlier generations of rock musicians closed down the creative frontier by claiming all of the available space. Over the past five years, we've seen a fearless vanguard of visionary artists (often female & often without a record label) prove that the creative boundaries of rock music are only limited by the imagination of the those who play the music.

The first video is an impromptu performance of Undertow by Warpaint for BBC 3 at Reading. A studio recording Undertow can be found on The Fool, their newly released debut album.

The next video is a parking lot acoustic performance Billy Holiday from their Exquisite Corpse EP, released in 2009. Notice how the song mutates into spooky version of My Guy, Mary Wells' 1963 Motown hit single.

Elephants is also from last year's Exquisite Corpse EP and gives you a better idea of Warpaint's plugged in live sound.

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Gavin B. Model Worker Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,248	Warpaint Delivers On Highly Anticipated Debut Album Warpaint- Reverb soaked psychedelic music with ethereal female vocals Last year the Los Angeles based quartet (until recently a trio) Warpaint released Exquisite Corpse, an EP of hypnotic, reverb soaked, dirge tempo neo-psychedelic music with ethereal vocals by three female members of the band. Exquisite Corpse was a self produced effort which created enough buzz to land Warpaint a contract with Rough Trade. Warpaint developed a cult following outside of their own So-Cal regional base with a regional Northeastern tour with Beach Fossils, the Brooklyn based haze pop crew. Neither Exquisite Corpse or their highly anticipated Rough Trade debut The Fool (released on October 26), fully captures their brain-melded live performances in which their delicate and ghost like vocals float in a fine mist of guitars. On stage, each song reinvents itself within a constantly shifting array of tempos & themes. To be honest, Warpaint's Rough Trade debut, The Fool doesn't open up any new musical ground or deviate from the script of the Exquisite Corpse musical project, but more of the same from Warpaint is a good thing. I'm a true believer in the band and I've given their two recordings a humongous amount of airplay on my college radio show. In today's musical environment of low-fi man-with-a-laptop performers, Warpaint challenges the notion that rock music bands are only recycling old trends. Post rockers argue that earlier generations of rock musicians closed down the creative frontier by claiming all of the available space. Over the past five years, we've seen a fearless vanguard of visionary artists (often female & often without a record label) prove that the creative boundaries of rock music are only limited by the imagination of the those who play the music. The first video is an impromptu performance of Undertow by Warpaint for BBC 3 at Reading. A studio recording Undertow can be found on The Fool, their newly released debut album. The next video is a parking lot acoustic performance Billy Holiday from their Exquisite Corpse EP, released in 2009. Notice how the song mutates into spooky version of My Guy, Mary Wells' 1963 Motown hit single. Elephants is also from last year's Exquisite Corpse EP and gives you a better idea of Warpaint's plugged in live sound. ====================================== __________________ There are two types of music: the first type is the blues and the second type is all the other stuff. Townes Van Zandt