Warpaint emerged several years ago with a distinctively languid sound: four women in California making music as if they were in a dingy British band from the early Eighties.
It worked perfectly until a difficult second album featuring a few too many drowsy tunes.
Warpaint have picked up the pace on their third record, which has the heady rush of a debut on New Song — an unlikely club banger from these arty LA post-punks.
In fact, they’ve always had a more muscular musical presence on stage and Heads Up captures that driving intensity.
The heavy beats, droning bass and downbeat harmonies cast a spell on the rumbling Don’t Wanna, the queasy chorus of Don’t Let Go and the scratchy groove of The Stall.
It’s a convincing comeback of startlingly good songs and no compromise.
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