Warpaint

Uhh, what Jon said.

I like the part where music is only valid if you are making "sharp noises about heroin or shoplifting or forced mutilation", but not if you just sing about broken hearts.

The weird thing is, when I first heard Warpaint, I thought "hey, this sounds a bit like Slumber Party" and then immediately thought it was unfair because of the "is it because they are women" thing - but to be honest, "woozy post-Velvets psych with female vocals" is a lot more of a cohesive genre signifier even though Warpaint are a lot more expansive and sprawling and epic while Slumber Party are more intimate and concise and perfect pop.

x-post I missed it completely because I saw "sharp noises about heroin or shoplifting or forced mutilation" being some kind of Velvets reference because I was so tunnel visioned on "woozy post Velvets psych"

Seriously that was a horse shit review.

i kinda like that dusted occasionally has batshit terrible reviews

i generally like dusted a lot, but that review was strange, and uncharacteristic.

that song up top kind of reminds me of angel'in heavy syrup if they were lifting more post-punk and less psych

angel'in heavy syrup is the jam btw, you should all listen to them.

this band is pretty good too. i'll probably pick this up based on the two songs i've now heard.

majesty is good. digging this so far.

Really love this album, so good. The closer, "Lissie's Heart Murmur" is so solid. Some really lovely textures throughout.

Really like this. It's weird, the songs themselves aren't that and I could imagine being bored shitless by them live, but the SOUND of the record is fantastic and manages to pull them up. The guitars sound so great.

*it's on Spotify now!

And wow, this is *LUSH*... (in the OMG amazing hugeness swoony beauty kind of way, naught to do with the band) They do have that guitar tone and that dreamy feel - funnily enough, I was listening to all those really early Verve singles recently because of the shoegaze poll and really, this band manage to capture that sense of warm woozy spaciousness.

Yeah, I was listening to this and thinking about Lush, but also thinking a little about Ut too. Especially Ut ca. Griller.

No, I don't think they sound like Lush. I think they sound lush. I meant the adjective not the band.

Well er, Lush sound kind of lush sometimes...

In quite different ways. Lush (band) were much spikier than this, they had much more going on in the drumming, they tended to use a quite blocky guitar sound, lots of solids and bold colour washes - this is much more strings and filaments of sound. Much more meandering than Lush ever were.

Getting deep into the second half and yeah, I see what you mean.

After the album, Spotify just decided to play me a Warpaint cover of Ashes To Ashes that I never even knew existed. Wow, this is really quite something. I didn't think it would work, but wow, it really does, brings out an even dreamier side of the song. This is sending shivers down my spine that has nothing to do with the air conditioning.

keep meaning to listen to the rest of the album but am stuck on listening 'undertow' on repeat tbh

The weird burbling synth noises on Majesty, oh yes!

Huh - Wikipedia says that Shannyn Sossamon used to be in this band (her sister is the bassist), as did Josh Klinghoffer, and John Frusciante produced their first album.

that song up top kind of reminds me of angel'in heavy syrup if they were lifting more post-punk and less psych

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, October 26, 2010 11:00 AM (2 days ago)

would never have listened to the youtube if it weren't for this. thanks, CAD.

They were on 6Music just a few minutes ago, playing a live session. Sounded alright, imho.
True story.

Wish they'd pushed their sound more into the spooky, off-kilter, spectral realm really, they're a little too polite.

like almost everything about this, based on "elephants". song, structure, textures & tones, and the GUITAR. holy shit, so many brilliant little moments in that one song. especially love the riff from abt 1:45 - 2:00. reminiscent of "baby song" by the raincoats (an all time favorite of mine), and not just cuz they all have girl parts. love everything except the singer and the name. singer isn't awful, but a bit too mannered for my tastes, and the band name is just horrid. but whatever, i can live with that.

and i can totally hear angel'in heavy syrup, especially in the spacier/quieter moments. nice.

I like the politeness, it brings this edge of surreality to it, much like Parlour Psych, that the contrast between the wild and strange and the comfortably familiar hides something bigger than you initially perceive. In a kind of "monster you don't see is scarier than the monster you do see" - it makes it a more subtle listen, what they are holding back is as interesting as what they show. It's what keeps them from straying too far into that eyerolling "kooky" territory so dangerous for ye ethereal womyns. It is the restraint that shows their true power.

^ interesting post. not sure i agree. 2nd vid posted here ("undertow") is less appealing to me because the parts are more orderly, less wildly discontinuous. thus lacks the sense of adventure i get from "elephants". i miss the squalling noise punctuation, the blissed-out interludes. extremity suits them, not least because the singing gives me the impression that they'll very quickly be moving towards a more pop friendly sound. nothing wrong with that, but i like the post punk psyche thing they've got going on atm.

majesty is fucking ace.

Wishing their U.S. tour in December was swinging through Chicago, hopefully in 2011.

and i can totally hear angel'in heavy syrup, especially in the spacier/quieter moments. nice.

― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:32 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

glad!!

Bought this yesterday, played it this morning. Interested to note that Andy Weatherall mixed a couple of tracks; there's certainly a danciness to it. Reminds me a bit of The XX in the heavy-breathing minimalism, and Electrelane in the girls-jammingness. The danciness is very welcome, almost... Primal Scream-ey, but not at all Primal Scream-ey? If that makes sense. Groovey indie rock with dance elements as psychedelic tool? That Dusted review is even more fucking incongruous now I've heard it.

NME front cover, I see...

They certainly had several copies in Exeter HMV, and I was quite surprised by that, so there's obviously a certain amount of push behind them. And fair play. Vaguely grossed-out by Guardian live review suggesting that it's the kind of music that David & Samantha Cameron like to fuck to.

If there's a dance element it's textural rather than rhythmic.

The other thing I keep getting reminded of is early 90s female fronted grunge-era alt-rock. Maybe a bit PJ Harvey in the vocals, when she flattens her voice and uses it as a pivot around which the rest of the music revolves. Undertow especially.

Also, "please don't call anybody else baby..."

Um, it's mainly textural, and they're not playing straight or obvious 'dance' 'beats', but there's something in the fluidity of the rhythm section that's several steps beyond regular indie bollocks. It's not Friendly Fires or Delphic, obviously, but... I think if I played it at a time other than breakfast, and turned it up, it'd make me want to move.

The rhythm section is a bit Stone Roses-ish, maybe?

A bit of the more psychedelic end of Baggy? Maybe. Dunno. It still reminds me most strongly of the first Verve album.

It's a load more fluid than bleeding Delphic.

Live, they do hit the 128bpm house pulse quite frequently ...

Yeah, Stone Roses circa Somethings Burning, first Verve album, that kind of groovey, post-dance psychedelia.

You're making it sound way too British.

Well that was a kind of British that desperately wanted to be playing in a groovey smokey club on the Sunset Strip with the Doors playing softly on the jukebox or something, so it's not completely off the mark.

Aye, definitely. Remove the frontmen from those bands and you've got some kind of Doors / CAN interface.

Verve yes, Roses no. But it still sounds more like post-rock + 90s alt-rock + Telepathe-style Brooklyn indie to me.

Actually I made the ill formed decision to listen to some Stone Roses on this thread. I can no longer stomach the self titled album. I think Nick means the kind of Fools Gold / One Love 12"s with all their B-sides, it totally has that kind of groove.

(Still kind of shocked I can no longer listen to that album any more. I feel like a part of my youth has truly died. The 12"s between the albums are still ace, mind you.)

Yeah, I'm talking about Fools Gold / Somethings Burning / One Love, the tantaslising glimpse at a Krautrock/psychedelia/acidhouse interface that they gave us before sodding off to take cocaine and fall off mountain bikes.

Yeah, back recently I managed to get the Deluxe (as opposed to the Collectors) 2CD+DVD of the Stone Roses' debut for a fiver in HMV, and tbh i'm tl;dl/meh about the DVD, played the 'interesting demos' once, and the main album I sort of didn't need to.

Still, it's now taken the place of the previous format on the shelf.

What about those "sacriligeuos" remix 12" versions of Waterfall and Res?

Or is the wrong thread?

So, erm, Warpaint, eh?

Dunno, will have to check them out.

https://open.spotify.com/track/4oK4XJa92LlpMNAzx1TMlP?si=-qQqtT8lR3u_121swUakgw&dl_branch=1

“Made for Love”
I guess a one off single?
Stella sounds great

It sounds great! Hoping it's a sign of more to come, it's been a long five years.

Oh right, they were featured as themselves in that HBO show, which was kind of a funny pick to be that character's favorite band, but it was cute.

Finally!

New album, Radiate Like This, out May 6th. I'm really excited, it's been a long wait.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJznPy_iM4M

01 Champion
02 Hips
03 Hard to Tell You
04 Stevie
05 Like Sweetness
06 Trouble
07 Proof
08 Altar
09 Melting
10 Send Nudes

Niiice

I'm happy they decided to make another one.

Jenny Lee Lindberg put out a couple singles last year, including one with Dave Gahan on guest vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H5Yg4EB3-I

10 Send Nudes

I been sending dirty pics
Hope they make it to the cloud

Hoping "Stevie" is a Royal Trux cover

Holding out until my copy gets here Tuesday, but super excited to hear it.

Giving it a cursory phone speaker listen right now and definitely enjoying it. Really like Stevie, Altar, and Melting so far. Going to have to go back and listen on better speakers or headphones though. Warpaint albums usually take a few listens to open up for me.

tried to give this a listen last night and just couldn't get into it, I fear that I'm one of those people who thinks their first few releases are excellent and everything since is blah...

I take it back, I really like this one. It doesn’t vary much in mood but it fits my maudlin and unhappy spring feeling at the moment.

Looking back Champion was as good as anything they ever did. Supposedly they celebrate being together for 20 years in spring of next year

also wtf shannyn sossamon was their drummer.

― akm, Friday, October 8, 2010 5:40 PM (fourteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

!

“Your brown eyes are my blue skies…”

"Stevie" has multiple all-time vocal melodies, like the best '70s AM Gold all in one. So much beauty! Just a fantastic tune, damn.