Rating: NN
On their debut album, buzzed-about L.A.-based quartet Warpaint create a brooding twilight mood with delicate, reverberating guitars, unhurried vocals and country minimalism. It’s the kind of music that drifts past the ears and floats away in a dreamy haze. What remains is the distinct impression that the group enjoys the darker spectrum of 90s West Coast alt rock.
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While The Fool has clear focus and crafts a particular sound, the music fails to resonate emotionally. In interviews, band members have likened the album to a film soundtrack, but without an accompanying visual a soundtrack is incomplete. Warpaint’s considerable musicianship casts an intoxicating spell, but the lyrics are limp, relying on the usual pining platitudes.
Top track: Undertow
