Older songs like the disco-vibey “Love Is to Die” and the vaguely new wave “New Song” both had the crowd dancing. The sweaty crowd cheered Kokal’s folky guitar intro to “Keep It Healthy.” Between songs, Lindberg exclaimed “It’s hot in here!” Kokal and Wayman, in T-shirts and shirt skirts, were dressed for the heat, while Lindberg was clad in black and drummer Stella Mozgawa wore a brown jumpsuit. The song arranged itself around the unique noise, much like The Cure with the grinding bass of “Fascination Street” or even the strange bird sounds that punctuate “Like Cockatoos.” During “Bees,” from 2010’s The Fool, Lindberg coaxed a strange clanging buzz from her bass. On “Intro,” from the band’s self-titled 2014 album, guitarists Emily Kokal and Theresa Wayman wove together intricate melodic lines over bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg’s throbbing bass line. Perhaps Warpaint’s closest musical comparison is The Cure, who can play just about anything and still sound like itself. Warpaint performs at the UC Theatre in Berkeley on Aug.
On “Hips,” another song from their latest, the percussion-heavy jams became suddenly mellow, and then forceful again as guitarist-vocalist Emily Kokal sang, “I won’t forget, I won’t forget/ I will remember, will remember, will remember this.” Monday’s rendition of “Champion,” the first single off of the band’s new album, Radiate Like This, which came out earlier this year, began with sparse synth samples and sultry vocal harmonies before growing in volume and intensity mid-song and finally blooming into a groovy, spacey jam. The band didn’t just skip around musically between songs it leapt between genres often between the verses of a single song. quartet brought its unique musical combination of rock, soul, funk, disco and hip-hop to The UC Theatre Monday night. Also regionally known as a “graveyard” or a “suicide,” the cloying mixture is a pretty good metaphor for the music of Warpaint. Sean Liming/STAFF.īERKELEY - “Swamp water” is a term of endearment for the syrupy concoction that results from filling a cup with equal parts of each available selection from a soda machine. It's that good.Warpaint performs at the UC Theatre in Berkeley on Aug. Highlights include Whispering Smith's funky "Cold Black Mare" and his harmonica-and-foot-stomp-accompanied "Baby Please Don't Go," Silas Hogan's wry "Dry Chemical Blues," Arthur "Guitar" Kelley's poignant "How Can I Stay When All I Have Is Gone," and Clarence Edwards' stark and acoustic "Cooling Board." Considered a stone cold classic in Britain, Swamp Blues should be afforded the same pomp it's due in the States. Not as loose and bayou atmospheric as Jay Miller's famous Excello productions, these tracks still have that swamp something going for them, and the whole collection is a wonderful testament to Excello's stable of blues artists.
Vernon recorded everything included here in Baton Rouge over the course of four hot summer August days in 1970, and ended up breaking the two resulting LPs into a 12-song band set and followed it with a 12-song set that featured these blues artists working solo (in this CD reissue, obviously, the solo sides simply follow the band sides with no break in between). in 1970 by Mike Vernon's legendary Blue Horizon Records, Swamp Blues isn't technically an Excello Records product, but all of the veteran blues artists included in the set have strong ties to the Louisiana label.
An instant classic when it was released as a double LP in the U.K.
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