Warpaint

Overview

There's something nostalgically romantic about the sound and story of Warpaint. It might be the fact that they formed on Valentines Day, or perhaps the level of reverb they use on their harmonised vocals, but there's no denying the happy place Emily Kokal and Theresa Wayman take you to when they start singing. Their sweet harmonies are weighted by Jenny Lee Lindberg's lethargically bounding bass lines and the heavy tom’s of Stella Mozgawa's kit, in what seems like an effortless ensemble — even for a post-punk band.

Of their live performances, it has been said that they can disarm a room and transform a crowd into a transfixed, star-gazing shuffle-ufagus. They’re coming to the Oxford Art Factory but really, these are stylish divas who should be performing in prairie fields of golden (non-GE) canola in the dusky haze of an autumn afternoon. Can someone maybe find one of those for them?