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Warpaint announce new album, Radiate Like This

By | Published on Thursday 27 January 2022

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Warpaint have announced that they will return with new album ‘Radiate Like This’ – their first album for six years – in May. New single ‘Champion’ is out now, alongside the announcement of a string of UK and Ireland tour dates.

In the time since their 2016 album ‘Head’s Up’, the four members of the band have been kept busy with other commitments in their personal lives, but eventually they decided that they still wanted to find a way to work together.

Unable to physically get into the same room at the same time to record – due to the pandemic, as much as anything else – they recorded alone, passing round tracks and adding new layers separately.

“I was saying the other day that we should’ve called **this album ‘Exquisite Corpse’”, jokes the band’s Emily Kokal, referencing both the parlour game and the title of the group’s debut EP.

The new single, the band say, is about “being a champion to oneself and for others. We are all in this together, life is too short not to strive for excellence in all that we do”.

‘Radiate Like This’ is out on 6 May. And here are the UK and Ireland tour dates lined up for the same month:

11 May: Bristol, Academy
12 May: Manchester, Albert Hall
13 May: Glasgow, SWG3 Galvanisers
14 May: Dublin, National Stadium
17 May: Bexhill, De La Warr Pavilion
18 May: London, The Roundhouse

Listen to ‘Champion’ here:



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