Getting To Know You: Warpaint

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Yeah...This Band is Call Warpaint

To read a one act play in the Ibsen tradition, based on the band Warpaint, please follow the jump.

Mp3: Warpaint – Billie Holliday

Mp3: Warpaint – Elephants

A small room with modern, yet sparse furnishings, a desk, a basic plastic and metal chair for the patient, and a much larger, padded chair behind the desk.  The doctor faces away from the patient, staring at the wall before him, while the patient, a young man with impeccable taste,  faces the crowd.

Therapist: Johnny, I’m going to say a word and I want you to respond with the first word or phrase that pops into your head.   Ok?

Johnny:  OK, Doc, anything to make these waking nightmares stop.

T: Alright, lets begin…House

J: Door

T: Cat

J: Umm…Tinsel

T: Warpaint

J: …Snuggling

T: Interesting…Now Johnny why would you say snuggling?

J: Oh gee Doc, I just love Warpaint.  They’re a Los Angeles based quartet that specialize in melodramatic folk pop with a heavy psychedelic influence.  Warpaint was also recently signed to Rough Trade Records, home of other big shot indie acts such as Jarvis Cocker, Julian Casablancas, and Monsters of Folk.

T: Monsters you say?

J: Yes and Warpaint also just released their debut ep Exquisite Corpse, while a full length album is expected sometime early in 2010.

Therapist: Yes that’s all well and good, but why the snuggling association?

J: Didn’t you see the picture at the top of the page?  They also have half a dozen more cuddling pictures on their Myspace.

T:  Interesting.

J:  Yes, who would have thought that a band called “Warpaint,” would make such delicate, yet haunting music.

T: Johnny, I don’t think you’re crazy after all.

J: You really think so?  I mean do you really Doc?

T:  I now pronounce you…HEALED!

J:  YAY!!! I’m not crazy

T:  And it’s all thanks to Warpaint!!