Warpaint shares new track "Hips," confirms U.S. tour, Radiate Like This out May 6

WARPAINT UNVEILS NEW TRACK “HIPS” CONFIRMS RADIATE LIKE THIS U.S. TOUR NEW ALBUM RADIATE LIKE THIS OUT MAY 6 Photo credit: Mia Kirby April 22, 2022—Celebrated L.A. quartet Warpaint shares a new track today, “Hips,”—listen here. The new track is taken from Radiate Like This, Warpaint’s first full length in six years, out May 6—pre-save/pre-order here. Additionally, the band confirms the Radiate Like This tour, a run of U.S. dates beginning in July with stops in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Washington D.C. and more—see full routing below and purchase tickets here. Belief, the side project of Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa and L.A. producer Boom Bip, will support on the east coast dates. The new track, which Warpaint’s Emily Kokal likens to “gyrations of the birth of a new world,” follows initial offerings from Radiate Like This, “Champion”—praised by Stereogum as a “masterful reintroduction” to the band—and “Stevie,” which arrived alongside a video made in collaboration with Fascinated By Everything—watch the fully immersive video made for Oculus here and the 2D version here. In the six years since 2016’s much-lauded Heads Up, Warpaints four members—Emily Kokal, Jenny Lee Lindberg, Stella Mozgawa and Theresa Wayman—have been busy living. Babies, jobs, tours, solo albums, intercontinental and cross country moves all became priorities, presenting mounting logistical challenges to getting the band back together, as they say, and allowing a little space to think “what if we didn’t?” Eventually, though, each of the women found themselves drawn inexorably back together. Warpaint is as much a home for them as a band, having been together for nearly 20 years. They had just completed the foundational tracking sessions with co-producer Sam Petts-Davies (Thom Yorke, Frank Ocean, Skullcrusher) when the pandemic hit and they were forced to retreat to respective safety. What followed was the making of a wholly different Warpaint album. Physically separated by the pandemic, each musician recorded her parts separately—often in makeshift home studios—before sending on to the next, creating songs layer by layer. Deciding to delay the release until they could tour allowed them to further hone each track, spending more time building and rebuilding than they had in the past. The result is a body of work that is sharper and more focused than any of their previous, each song as tight, beguiling and proud as a diamond. “I was saying the other day that we should’ve called this album “Exquisite Corpse”, but it was already taken,” jokes Kokal, referring to the title of the band’s debut EP. Radiate Like This captures what’s always been the magic of Warpaint—the delicate interplay of four separate parts coalescing in motion—while somehow allowing each individual to shine a little brighter. The band will make their live return with a run of shows in the U.K. and Europe this spring with global dates to follow. See full tour routing below. Warpaint is Emily Kokal (guitar, vocals), Jenny Lee Lindberg (bass, vocals), Stella Mozgawa (drums, vocals) and Theresa Wayman (guitar, vocals). Radiate Like This follows their critically beloved debut EP Exquisite Corpse, 2010’s The Fool, 2014’s Warpaint and 2016’s Heads Up. WARPAINT—RADIATE LIKE THIS 1. Champion 2. Hips 3. Hard To Tell You 4. Stevie 5. Like Sweetness 6. Trouble 7. Proof 8. Altar 9. Melting 10. Send Nudes WARPAINT LIVE May 9                                                            La Cigale                                                 Paris, France May 11                                                       O2 Academy                             Bristol, United Kingdom May 12                                               Albert Hall, Manchester                                 United Kingdom May 13                                                  SWG3 Galvanisers                    Glasgow, United Kingdom May 14                                                    National Stadium                                        Dublin, Ireland May 17                                                  De La Warr Pavilion                       Bexhill, United Kingdom May 18                                                    The Roundhouse                        London, United Kingdom May 20                                                           Huxleys                                             Berlin, Germany May 21                                                      Live Music Hall                                   Cologne, Germany May 22                                                             Fabrik                                         Hamburg, Germany May 24                                                           Paradiso                              Amsterdam, Netherlands May 26                                                   Ancienne Belgique                                 Brussels, Belgium May 28                                                          Progresja                                           Warsaw, Poland June 1                                            Zorlu Performing Arts Center                             Istanbul, Turkey June 3                                                     Primavera Sound                                    Barcelona, Spain July 20                                            Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia                            Philadelphia, PA* July 22                                                   Capital Turnaround                                Washington, D.C.* July 23                                                         The Sinclair                                         Cambridge, MA* July 24                                                      Brooklyn Made                                           Brooklyn, NY* July 27                                                       Opera House                                             Toronto, ON* July 28                                                            El Club                                                       Detroit, MI August 18                                                The Observatory                                        Santa Ana, CA August 19                                         John Anson Ford Theatre                              Los Angeles, CA August 20                                                 Psycho Festival                                         Las Vegas, NV August 22                                                 The UC Theatre                                            Berkeley, CA August 23                                                  Ace of Spades                                       Sacramento, CA August 25                                                  The Crocodile                                               Seattle, WA August 26                                        The Commodore Ballroom                              Vancouver, B.C. August 27                                                 Revolution Hall                                             Portland, OR * with Belief http://warpaintwarpaint.com/