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Manimal Vinyl | L.A.'s Warpaint weave majestic, haiku-like guitars, hypnotic vocals, and driving post-punk rhythms into gorgeous, sprawling songs that skirt the line between the soundscapes of psychedelia/shoegaze, the haunting intimacy of folk, and rock's primal heaviness. At the core of the band are childhood friends Emily Kokal and Theresa Wayman who both met bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg at an audition in LA.  Music was instantly a common thread for the trio and they quickly formed the band. The fertile, diverse LA music scene has been much better for it since.

Playing to many captivated audiences in LA, Warpaint has recently opened for acts like Flea, The Black Heart Procession, The Slits and many others.  Earlier this year they self-released their debut EP "Exquisite Corpse" going straight to # 1 on the Amoeba local artists charts. While already a much buzzed about entity in LA, Warpaint are just beginning to stir the masses with recent national (and international) praise from the FADER, The Independent UK, Dazed and Confused, and URB. Also, the increasingly relevant LA label Manimal Vinyl (Hecuba, Rainbow Arabia) will be giving "Exquisite Corpse" an official release on vinyl/CD this September complete with a new bonus track. Expertly mixed by John Frusciante, the EP successfully captures the band's sonic textures and playful dynamism Warpaint is notorious for creating live.

Recently, the band solidified their live line-up with drummer/multi-instrumentalist Josh Klinghoffer now in tow (the bands lineage of drummers have previously included DJ David Orlando and Jenny Lee's sister Shannyn Sossamon). Onstage, Warpaint’s disarmingly authentic package can shake a room into a dance frenzy—while simultaneously holding it in a trance-like dreamworld. With plans to tour throughout the end of of 2009, Warpaint are poised to win over new fans willing to join them on their complex, melodic, dark odyssey.

"We emailed LA mystics Warpaint after listening to all the songs on their MySpace page and having a psychic revelation that they ruled. We were like, Yo, what’s you guyses [sic] deal? And they were like, We are collectively a libran cancerian lioness with a bit of geminiacal insanity and scorpionic fire. Seriously they did, how awesome is that?" The FADER

“Exquisite Corpse” is the debut release from Los Angeles fuzzy, cosmic heartbreak quartet Warpaint...a collection of magical psychedelia drifting over sublime moments of raw melody courtesy of the three free ethereal vocalists...Kinda Sonic Youth and Cat Power with more Los Angeles nightfall." Dazed and Confused

"They make a quite lovely sound with dreamy vocals, off-kilter hazy guitars and elements of psychedelia" Independent UK

Albums

• Exquisite Corpse

  Manimal Vinyl

On Tour

No dates posted at this time.