★★★★★
On their self-titled sophomore effort, Warpaint take a decisive turn toward emphatic inversion, a perhaps telling reaction understood within the context in which the band's 2010 debut, The Fool, was critically received. It's as if the all-female four-piece -- featuring Emily Kokal (vocals, guitar), Theresa Wayman (vocals, guitar), Jenny Lee Lindberg (bass and backing vocals), and Stella Mozgawa (drums) -- wanted to make a point of their having decided to shun and consequently dismiss the...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2014-04-22
★★★★★
Warpaint(Rough Trade) Krautrock's metronomic headspace encountered a ripple in the force via Warpaint's 2010 debut full-length, The Fool. Aquatic somnambulance rather than Germanic jam powered the L.A. foursome of Emily Kokal, Theresa Wayman, Jenny Lee Lindberg, and Stella Mozgawa, the former two vox moaning monastically Portishead, while the latter rhythm section applied a Tortoise epidural...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2014-03-13
★★★★★
What I miss most about playing music regularly is those little two to twenty minute jams that come out of nowhere and just murrrrrder. Bass player is fiddling on a riff, the drummer is situated and starts in behind it and both start to smile. Guitarist is halfway across the room with a pick in his mouth SPRINTING to plug in and join, strap flapping over his shoulder behind him. Then it's like you're playing in the best band on the planet because of that specific feeling...
- www.syffal.com
2014-03-07
★★★★★
Los Angeles based Warpaint have released their self-titled third album, produced by post punk revivalist Mark Ellis aka Flood and mixed by Nigel Godrich. The gang (girls in the group, boys behind the board) waste no time, diving into the brooding material with reckless abandon. The results are usually very easy on the ears and often a huge advancement from their 2010 breakthrough The Fool...
- www.adequacy.net
2014-02-14
★★★★★
Plonking your name on your record is a declaration of intent. This might just be a personal hang-up, but even if the source of that declaration is sheer laziness, even if we retroactively endeavour to disguise the band's brazen attempt to define themselves (The White Album, The Black Album, The Blue Album), the choice still signifies something significant about that band...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2014-02-13
★★★★★
A few seconds into Warpaint's second full-length release, the music stops, somebody laughs and then the band counts the song over again, and this moment embodies the record--revealing a band more concerned with capturing and preserving a mood rather than simply producing a product. Songs like "Biggy" and "Teese" demonstrate how the band dips into seemingly opposing genres and styles in order to create an unrestricted and unexplored musical landscape...
- filtermagazine.com
2014-02-08
★★★★★
For many, Warpaint made a fairly big first impression with their single Undertow, a breezy, summery track that, like its title suggested, had something going on underneath, its low bass rumble and accusatory refrain undercutting the sweet, slightly C86ish, vocals and jangling guitars, like gingham fabric stitched in gothic black...
- www.noripcord.com
2014-01-31
★★★★★
WARPAINT - Warpaint
Album:
Warpaint
Artist: Warpaint
Label: Rough Trade
Release Date: January 14, 2014
www.roughtraderecords.com
BY MICHAEL TOLAND
Anybody who's seen Warpaint in action knows what a musical powerhouse the L.A. quartet is. So it's a bit of a surprise to spin the band's new, eponymous record and get an entirely different experience...
- blurtonline.com
2014-01-30
★★★★★
It's taken a surprisingly long three years for Warpaint to follow up their debut album The Fool. For a band that seems to play and write music so instinctually together, there might have been a little bit of worry that their chemistry had dissipated in the studio in recording their second album. And, on early listens to Warpaint it almost seemed like that is what happened...
- www.thefourohfive.com
2014-02-12