Magnetizing undertow

LA foursome Warpaint return with their sophomore self-titled LP, continuing in the footprints of their debut The Fool (reviewed here). Warpaint is another brooding effort of immersive sound, but this time around the sound is bigger, fuller and richer with trip-hop drum beats and deep silky bass. 

Nothing here is quite as instant as Undertow, The Fools pinnacle moment, and they have pushed the lush harmonies deeper into the mix, choosing to submerge the vocals onto the dark regions of the sound, coming in and out of focus.

The beats throughout are what hooks you into the expansive dark side, like Tricky's Maxinquaye and Portishead's Dummy the intense atmospherics mesmerize the senses. Produced by Flood (Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, Sigur Rós and The Jesus and Mary Chain etc) Warpaint's highlight, if you can call it that is - Hi, a trippy rolling baseline and slowed down funky-drummer beat underpins the driving melody and desperate vocals.

Deep colours and rich think blood paints a melancholy canvas with heavenly touches. One things for sure, the more you listen the more you will fall under it's spell.

Like this? Try: Dirty Projectors, Deerhunter, Lykke Li, Portishead, Exquisite Corpse EP review here.

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