Warpaint are a four-member band from Los Angeles. All band members are female. The latter does not matter. Why evident during their concert in the ballroom of Kreuzberg.
Tonight is also the music business here - the Warpaint the "Next Big Thing" should be has gotten around. Two days after the concert in Berlin, the band smiling from the cover of the British NME. Among them: "Satanic Majesties The Queens of The New Underground": pathos and a little cult of genius for the better understanding, better for categorization.
The band takes the stage and the audience clap, clap until the first song - "Stars" - and then falls into a collective trance. The particular and the main fascination is the dynamics of the band, the interaction. The chords (and swirling space-filling) by Emily Kokal and Theresa Wayman settle over the driving bass of Jenny Lindberg. Which is held together by a precise structure behind the drums, the Stella Mozgawa sitting (which most of the time hidden behind her hair). The bass moves constantly between the role of rhythm and melody instrument, the dynamics of the songs in the set of Warpaint accounts for a large number of small, coherent unit.
That's not "new" in the strict sense, since that was all before: the polyphonic singing, the sound. And yet one has the feeling to watch them like there is something new, right on stage. Warpaint not deny their musical inspiration and claim not to be innovative. What it sounds? The reference cluster is mostly unfolded quickly, but there is no place at Warpaint approach. Noise, New Wave somehow, somehow 90s Independent. The band played together since 2004 - it has taken a long time to find their sound. Warpaint and a "girl group" will have neither the band nor - theme from the music press in particular - an astonishing way.
Warpaint have taken leave of categories - they have probably never served. The band is because they make the songs work in progress before an audience, their music defined as a process - the soundtrack for the period after the great crisis of the music industry. The plate is the image, the performance is presence and aura. And process.
Photos of Tim Wulff .
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