Chvrches' Lauren Mayberry Reviews Warpaint's New Album

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The Talkhouse is a site where artists go to write about works by other artists. They've had St. Vincent on Arcade Fire, Ezra Koenig on Drake, and most famously, Lou Reed on Yeezus. Today, Chvrches frontwoman Lauren Mayberry has penned a review of the Warpaint's new self-titled album.

Her overall review is positive—she calls the band "brave and uncompromising". Here's an excerpt:

I love the feel of it. There is atmosphere. There is ambiance. The shoegaze elements of previous material are alive and well (enhanced by Flood's production and the touches added by Nigel Godrich), exemplified through the Bat For Lashes-esque vocal of “Biggy,” the woozy, Moog’ed-up shoegaze of pre-album single “Love Is to Die,” and the synth-heavy, downtempo “Teese.” The tight, undulating rhythm section of bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg and drummer Stella Mozgawa is intact, to say the least, shown to its full force on tracks like the floor tom- and rim shot-heavy “Feeling Alright,” ensuring that this album does sound like what we know Warpaint to be from their previous work, but that it is also wonderfully weird. Typical song formats are eschewed. Sounds which do not seem like they should go together; songs that don’t even seem like they should be on the same record as each other, somehow belong.

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