Warpaint plays Terminal West
The Los Angeles foursome returns supporting its latest album, 'Heads Up'
Back together since January following a 2015 hiatus, Warpaint returns with Heads Up, a refreshingly funky-but-still-ominous successor to 2014’s self-titled LP. Enlisting Exquisite Corpse EP’s Jacob Bercovici, Heads Up is an album-long metamorphosis, bringing dark resonance, swirling percussion and waife-like vocals into a new and uplifting light. “You’re a new song,” floats like a familiar trance-inducing mantra in “New Song.” The single that joins the syncopated post-punk heartbeat of Stella Mozgawa’s percussion with erratic disco inflections, punctuated by maracas and synth bleats over cavernous four-part vocals. It’s a sign of the times that Warpaint reunited to help us dance in the dark with bleak uncertainty.
$23-$25. 9 p.m. Thurs., Nov. 10. Terminal West, 887 West Marietta, Studio C. 404-876-5566. www.terminalwestatl.com.