Warpaint - female hard-folk quartet - released their latest single No way out last week, in a harder, angrier, progression from 2014's eponymous album.
While no way out has had outings at gigs for almost a year, it's the b-side I'll start believing that is really the new material here. It's tribal, almost childlike shouting is very Warpaint, and it's fast tempo makes it irresistibly danceable.
2 songs are nice, but I'd really like a new album please Warpaint. Ok, thanks.
Whenever, wherever new Zola Jesus material lands, like a dream high school boyfriend, you better know I'll be there.
Enter compass, the b-side to hunger, the second single from taiga. And with taiga in mind, compass doesn't go in the direction you'd (well, I'd) expect. It's distinctly softer, less abrupt.
Zola also holds back on the superhuman vocals, and lets us into a side that is more relaxed, less forceful.
Perhaps for that reason, compass is the perfect ying to hunger's yang.
