It's been a long few years for fans of Theresa Wayman, Emily Kokal, Jenny Lee Lindberg, and Stella Mozgawa, who last filled our ears in 2010 with their acclaimed debut The Fool. Since then they've been honing their sound on the road before escaping to The Joshua Tree to record their eponymous second, co-produced by the band and Flood (PJ Harvey, New Order, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds) and mixed by Flood and Nigel Godrich. Artist and director Chris Cunningham also worked closely with the band to create artwork for the album, as well as a forthcoming documentary - nutsack monster hopefully not included.

Alongside previous single Love Is To Die, Warpaint bring beefed up electronics to their tracks to sculpt their woozy shoegaze into something sinisterly sexy. "I don't know if this is TMI or something," Wayman told the Guide this weekend, "but if you really fall into music while you're playing, it's the same space as when you are with a lover. You can see guitar players in the way that they're playing that they're in some ecstatic moment and it could equally be a sexual moment where they're alone with someone. So if I were to actually put it all into a pot and think about it, playing music can take you closer to that same kind of state of ecstacy as an orgasm. Sometimes that can be very alarming if you're onstage."

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