Warpaint tease first album in six years with new single 'Champion'

Culture
26 Jan 22

Listen to Warpaint's new single 'Champion' below, taken from the outfit's upcoming LP Radiate Like This.

Indie rockers Warpaint have announced their upcoming fourth album, Radiate Like This, with new single 'Champion'.

The new album lands on May 6th, marking the four-piece's first major release since 2016's Heads Up. The group co-produced Radiate Like This with Sam Petts-Davies, who worked with the band on 2021 single 'Lilys.'

They shared the track 'Champion' on BBC Radio 6 this morning (January 26), calling it an anthem for "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."

Listen to 'Champion' below.

In an interview with NME last spring, guitarist Theresa Wayman talked about the new direction the group will take in Radiate Like This.

“I’ve been thinking a lot about lyrics and so I’ve been thinking about Dylan a lot and how he strings a story together,” Wayman said. “He finds these perfect ways to say something that is so normal, it’s something that everyone experiences, but he unlocks this great metaphor for it.”

She continued to say this album will have more thematic variety than their previous releases.

“There’s a song from my higher self to my lower self on there, and a song about not needing to have anchors to anything. Em also wrote a song about the band and our relationship, and trying to evolve or grow with people who you’ve known for so long.”

Check out the track list for Radiate Like This below.

01 Champion
02 Hips
03 Hard To Tell You
04 Stevie
05 Like Sweetness
06 Trouble
07 Proof
08 Altar
09 Melting
10 Send Nudes

Warpaint are touring the UK and Europe the summer starting in May, including a night at Dublin's National Stadium on May 14. This will be Warpaint's first time back in the UK and Europe in five years.

May 09 Paris, France - La Cigale
May 11 Bristol, England - O2 Academy
May 12 Manchester, England - Albert Hall
May 13 Glasgow, Scotland - SWG3 Galvanisers
May 14 Dublin, Ireland - National Stadium
May 17 Bexhill, England - De La Warr Pavilion
May 18 London, England - The Roundhouse
May 20 Berlin, Germany - Huxleys
May 21 Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall
May 22 Hamburg, Germany - Fabrik
May 24 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
May 26 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique
May 28 Warsaw, Poland - Progresja
June 01 Istanbul, Turkey - Zorlu Performing Arts Center
June 03 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound