MP3+Video: Warpaint, “Elephants”
Hmm. You wouldn’t think you could put a few cute girls in thigh highs and translucent dresses and bore me to tears, but Warpaint have managed to do so. It’s a shame, because their song, “Elephant,” from their debut Exquisite Corpse (great Hedwig reference, kids) is a more highly refined version of what the Yeah Yeah Yeahs did with “Maps.”
I suppose the way the video’s speed is matched to the song’s tempo is pretty cool, but the windblown hair and baby doe eyes direct at the camera is more suited to something like Alannah Myles’ “Black Velvet” than anything out today.
Exquisite Corpse is out now on Manimal Vinyl. They’ve also got a track on Manimal’s David Bowie tribute, due out in May. They cover Bowie’s “Ashes to Ashes.”
