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Common Blue / Underneath

    Warpaint return with two new tracks, 'Common Blue' and 'Underneath', to mark their 20th anniversary.

    Emerging from the creative chrysalis, Warpaint release single 'Common Blue' on 14 February. Their first new material in two years, the four-piece mark 20 years as a band by reuniting with Rough Trade, the label behind their debut and creative home for most of their existence. Emotionally taking flight through Warpaint's innate sense of wonderment, 'Common Blue' marries an earthy groove with a fluttering melody that beguilingly evokes the ornate yet tender butterflies that enchant Warpaint's single.

    The 7-inch is backed by 'Underneath', which floats around an intoxicating acoustic riff with illusive emotions and fleeting feelings.

    STAFF COMMENTS

    Liam says: Stunning new 7" from our favs Warpaint. Common Blue on the A-side is up there with some of the bands best ever material and the delicate Underneath on the flip is lovely - limited, so don't sleep on this gem!!!

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Common Blue
    2. Underneath

    Monophonics & Kelly Finnigan

    Warpaint / Crash & Burn

      Monophonics are back with another 45 from their acclaimed concept album "Sage Motel." Featuring two heavy hitters, the A-side 'Warpaint' takes the band in a new sonic direction. Featuring heavy and layered guitars, rock-riffs, and the ever-soulful vocals of Kelly Finnigan, 'Warpaint' packs an ever-elusive punch. The B-side, 'Crash & Burn' is a luscious but solemn song about love and life, highlighting delicate percussion arrangements and textured layers of sound.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Warpaint
      2. Crash & Burn

      Warpaint

      Radiate Like This

        'Radiate Like This' - Warpaint’s much anticipated new record, not to mention their first in almost 6 years - arrives with its own very modern mythology intact, continuing the strange, brilliant, beautiful story of the band and quite neatly picking up where 'Heads Up' left off. If the previous album was the coming of age, 'Radiate Like This' presents Warpaint mk II in all their glory, a luminous coalescence of sound and vision which stubbornly belies its genesis, with the quartet of Kokal, Theresa Wayman, Stella Mozgawa and Jenny Lee Lindberg all recording their parts separately in various cities.

        “It’s the first time we’ve ever made an album like that, but in a weird way, it made us take our time with everything”, muses Kokal. “The process felt more meditative, less rushed”. This new sense of quiet confidence can be heard all through the album, in the hushed, slow build of first single “Champion” the beguiling push pull of “Proof”, the delicate intricacy and complexity of tracks like “Melting” and the winking “Send Nudes”. It’s an album that pulsates with ideas, energy and- most crucially – gorgeous melodies. Listen on in wonder.

        STAFF COMMENTS

        Barry says: As is the way at the moment, Warpaint recorded their new LP in several parts, from different cities and although it sounds like a recipe for a disconnected, diparate work, in Warpaint's case it couldn't be any less true. Incendiary groove, huge percussion and their impeccable sense of melody comes shining through, it's a triumph. A great return.

        TRACK LISTING

        1. Champion
        2. Hips
        3. Hard To Tell You
        4. Stevie
        5. Like Sweetness
        6. Trouble
        7. Proof
        8. Altar
        9. Melting
        10. Send Nudes

        Warpaint

        The Fool - Andrew Weatherall Sessions (RSD21 EDITION)

          On the completion of the recording of The Fool, Andrew Weatherall was given access to the album's master tapes to work on mixes for the finished record. The track Baby, along with Warpaint's iconic single Undertow, were both mixed by the Guv'nor and appeared on the finished album that was released in 2010. For the first time ever, this Record Store Day edition brings together all the mixes Weatherall created while working on the project, including a never released before, finished version of Jubilee. ìI remember that one of the main reasons why we wanted Andrew Weatherall to mix the Warpaint album was because we loved his brilliant work on the Primal Scream remix of Higher Than The Sun. I know that we discussed this particular track with Emily and she knew it of course and also loved it. I think it was a key reason they agreed to let Andrew do the mix. - Geoff Travis - Rough Trade Records 

          TRACK LISTING

          Side A 1.Warpaint 2. Undertow 3. Bees
          Side B 1. Jubilee 2. Shadows
          Side C 1. Majesty 2. Baby
          Side D 1. Composure 2. Lissies Heart Murmur 3. Set Your Arms Down

          TT (Theresa Wayman Of Warpaint)

          LoveLaws

          'Debut solo album from Warpaint guitarist & vocalist Theresa Wayman - It’s been 14 years since Wayman and her bandmates formed Warpaint in their early 20s, LoveLaws allows her to explore ideas that otherwise are difficult in a band. Though she’s a guitarist, she’s not much inspired by other guitarists. It’s been beats, basslines and samples since her teenage years. “I’ve never wanted to be a rock person, so I'm finally fulfilling my vision from 20 years ago”, she says. 

          STAFF COMMENTS

          Darryl says: Theresa Wayman of Warpaint fame is signing copies of her new album 'LoveLaws' here at Piccadilly Records on the release date of Friday May 18th at 1pm.
          Pop in to say hi, and get your copy signed!
          (It's FREE entry and no tickets are required)

          ‘Heads Up’ was recorded after the band spent 2015 apart working on solo projects. Reuniting in January this year, the band started to work with producer Jacob Bercovici, whom they had worked on their debut EP ‘Exquisite Corpse’ – into the studio to begin work on the new LP.

          The album was recorded in House on The Hill studio in downtown LA, their home studios and Papap’s Palace and for the first time ever, recorded in pairs and alone rather than as a full band.

          ‘The doors were a little more open in terms of what was accepted and what wasn’t, because we were sharing ideas so rapidly between us” says the band drummer Stella Mozgawa of the recording process. “

          “Everybody was allowed to have their space, time and creative freedom with songs and figure out, ‘I wonder what the best notes would be? I wonder what the best would be to play?” says bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg “Everybody got to sit and go, “What do I want to do to this? What’s my part? What’s My Role? How can I make it the best?”

          “I Feel really proud of what we made – almost surprised,” says Linberg “When we were making it, I was like “I wonder what this is going to sound like? How’s this going to come together so nicely? I feel so proud of it, and like its an evolution of our band, It sounds like a mature version of Warpaint”




          STAFF COMMENTS

          Barry says: Warpaint have obviously matured a bit. Their last album was a rawkous and forceful cacophony of sound, visceral and triumphant. This is somewhat more nuanced, confident and collected. Electronic drums are heard in certain sections, rippling and swaying instrumental breakdowns and smooth vocal melodies. This has much more of a swagger about it, like they have made their point and now they're just out to prove their worth. It's definitely working. Fantastic.

          TRACK LISTING

          01 Whiteout
          02 By Your Side
          03 New Song
          04 The Stall
          05 So Good
          06 Don't Wanna
          07 Don't Let Go
          08 Dre
          09 Heads Up
          10 Above Control
          11 Today Dear

          ‘Warpaint’ was co-produced by Warpaint and Flood (PJ Harvey, Sigur Ros, New Order, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Foals), and mixed by Flood and Nigel Godrich (Radiohead). The album was conceived after some writing and recording sessions that took place in The Joshua Tree late last year. Here the band was joined by visionary director Chris Cunningham who has partnered with them for many of the album visuals including the cover. He has spent the past two years filming and photographing the band as they made ‘Warpaint’.

          STAFF COMMENTS

          David says: The Californian sunshine bores the daylights out of Warpaint. Surf dudes to the left, Hollywood desperados to the right: their second album proper finds the band diving down deeper and darker than ever before in a valiant, but ultimately doomed attempt to escape LA's shiny, happy people. Hypnotic and bleakly claustrophobic; 'Warpaint' is an album that won't return your calls and will pretend it hasn't seen you on a night out but, like a doomed love affair, will keep you coming back for more, hoping for reciprocity, ignoring the truth, that this a record that will never love you back. Don't let that stop you falling in love though, having your heart broken is one of life's cruel constants. So, if it's inevitable, you could do worse than to have it broken by 'Warpaint'.

          TRACK LISTING

          1. Intro
          2. Keep It Healthy
          3. Love Is To Die
          4. Hi
          5. Biggy
          6. Teese
          7. Disco//Very
          8. Go In
          9. Feeling Alright
          10. CC
          11. Drive
          12. Son

          Warpaint

          The Fool

            Los Angeles all-girl four-piece Warpaint release their debut album proper, "The Fool" on Rough Trade, following last year's "Exquisite Corpse" mini-album.

            Warpaint weave intricate guitar lines, hypnotic vocals and driving post punk rhythms into gorgeous, sprawling songs that skirt the line between psychedelia and intimacy. Both live and on record, Warpaint sound like they're channelling something truly otherworldly, mystical.

            Recorded in a gym in LA, "The Fool" was produced and mixed by Tom Biller (Karen O – "Where The Wild Things Are" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" soundtracks), with further mixes from Andrew Weatherall (New Order, Primal Scream, Bjork) and Adam Samuels (Pearl Jam, Willie Nelson).

            Warpaint

            Exquisite Corpse

              This is their debut mini-album originally released on Manimal Records, now reissued in the UK on Rough Trade.

              Los Angeles' mystical Warpaint weave majestic, haiku-like guitars, hypnotic vocals, and driving post-punk rhythms into gorgeous, sprawling songs that skirt the line between the soundscapes of psychedelia / shoegaze, the haunting intimacy of folk, and rock's primal heaviness. At the core of the band are childhood friends Emily Kokal and Theresa Wayman who both met bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg at a commercial casting audition in LA. The trio quickly traded in their headshots for guitars and the fertile, diverse LA music scene has been much better for it since. Expertly mixed by John Frusciante, the album successfully captures the band's sonic textures and playful dynamism Warpaint is notorious for creating live. Onstage, Warpaint's disarmingly authentic package can shake a room into a dance frenzy—while simultaneously holding it in a trance-like dreamworld.



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