Audio By Carbonatix
Some bands carefully craft themselves on image, plunking out generic tunes while trying to maintain their artistic appearance. But this isn’t the case with Los Angeles-based psychedelic outfit Warpaint, whose debut full-length, 2010’s The Fool, packs a serious punch. It didn’t take long after that album’s release for the band to garner a big support system—big enough that Warpaint snagged the opening spot on the fall tour for last year’s “it band,” The xx, selling out shows all over the country along the way, including a stop at the Granada Theater last October.
The attention is well deserved: The Fool is a dreamy art-rock album that deals in whispers and hushed tones, a work that gets into your head and refuses to leave until it has been properly digested. And the ladies in Warpaint are a striking collection of live performers, too: At shows, Emily Kokal, Theresa Wayman, Jenny Lee Lindberg and Stella Mozgawa can easily lure pretty much any audience into trance. And, with them also closing their eyes and swaying to the music as they play, it’s clear that they get caught up in their own unearthly sounds, too.
