Warpaint

Artist- Warpaint
Album- The Fool
Label- Rough Trade


All-girl LA quartet revives the sound of early 90's 4AD, especially the mellower end of Throwing Muses. Dueling, languid vocals weave over spare, angular guitar figures (chorus pedals: ON). Other influences show through: "Undertow" recalls Nirvana's "Polly"; and "Baby", one of two largely acoustic numbers (the other is "Shadows") quotes the Beatles' "Long,Long,Long". There are no obvious singles here, but the best song is probably the faintly-menacing, bass-heavy "Bees", also fine is the incantatory "Composure", which shows off the band's excellent rhythm section. A promising debut.