Crack considered three of the album's tracks ("New Song", "So Good" and "Dre") as alternative pop " potentials", which are "a reflection of the times … dealing in moody atmospherics and left-of-center reworkings of mainstream trends". According to Lindberg, Heads Up is less guitar-oriented than the band's back catalogue and "half of the album has more emphasis on guitar and the other has less" Lindberg considers Heads Up as " like a mature version of Warpaint". Dre Warpaint included a track titled "Biggy", a reference to the Notorious B.I.G. Composition Ĭonsequence of Sound referred to Heads Up as "an eclectic collection" influenced stylistically by Björk, Janet Jackson, Kendrick Lamar and Outkast, and Crack magazine described it as an " au courant post-genre exploration of the sounds grew up hearing", noting that the album includes a track titled "Dre", a reference to the rapper and hip-hop producer Dr. According to one post, the band finished mixing Heads Up on May 9. The band regularly updated its Instagram account with images and video from the sessions. Describing the process of recording individually, Mozgawa said: "The doors were a little more open in terms of what was accepted and what wasn't, because we were sharing ideas so rapidly between us" Lindberg said that each member "was allowed to have their space, time and creative freedom with songs". The album was recorded at House on the Hill-a studio in downtown Los Angeles, California-and Papap's Palace, with additional recording taking place at each band member's home studios. Warpaint began recording sessions for Heads Up on Janu with producer Jake Bercovici, who had produced the band's debut EP, Exquisite Corpse (2008), and the 2015 single "No Way Out"/"I'll Start Believing". "No Way Out", a song originally intended for Warpaint, was released in February 2015 and "I'll Start Believing" was released in March both songs, and a "redux" version of "No Way Out", were released together as a double A-side single the same month. That's a lesson we've learned-not to overanalyse". " Kokal added that the band's writing process had become more simplified and that when the band "agree that we're stoked about, we're done. We want to do bits here and there, like back in the day when they used to make single. Wayman explained that the process of "writing, recording, mixing, mastering, releasing, touring … it's two years dedicated to one thing. In an interview with NME in early 2015, Warpaint declared its original intention to release single songs over a period of time in lieu of a third studio album. According to Lindberg, each member's projects gave the band a "fresh perspective" when writing material for Heads Up. Vocalist and guitarist Emily Kokal collaborated with folk musician Paul Bergmann, contributing vocals to Bergmann's extended play Romantic Thoughts (2015) vocalist and guitarist Theresa Wayman formed a supergroup, BOSS, with Sarah Jones of Hot Chip and Guro Gikling of All We Are, and recorded material for a solo album drummer Stella Mozgawa recorded with Kurt Vile, Cate Le Bon and Kim Gordon and bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg released her debut solo album, Right On! (2015), on which Mozgawa also performed drums. The band toured in promotion of the album until summer 2015, after which its members began separate projects. Warpaint released its eponymous second studio album in January 2014 to generally favorable reviews. The album was preceded by the single " New Song". Heads Up was produced by Warpaint and Jake Bercovici, who had previously worked with the band on their debut extended play, Exquisite Corpse (2008). It was released on September 23, 2016 on Rough Trade Records. Heads Up is the third studio album by the American indie rock band Warpaint.
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