Warpaint Return with Their Heads Held High on “Champion”

After almost six years, the group returns with “Radiate Like This,” out May 6.

Warpaint Return with Their Heads Held High on “Champion”

After almost six years, the group returns with “Radiate Like This,” out May 6.

Words: Margaret Farrell

January 26, 2022

It's been a hefty amount of time since we've heard from LA's Warpaint—their third and latest album Heads Up was released back in 2016. But today the quartet has shared that they're releasing a new album called Radiate Like This on May 6. The announcement from Emily Kokal, Jenny Lee Lindberg, Stella Mozgawa, and Theresa Wayman comes with the first single, "Champion."

"Being a champion to oneself and for others,” the band said of the breezy, hi-def dream-pop single. “We are all in this together, life is too short not to strive for excellence in all that we do.”

Radiate Like This was in the works pre-pandemic after tracking the songs' skeletons with co-producer Sam Petts-Davies. After lockdown took hold, the band built the layers of each track with all the members recording their parts separately.

Hear "Champion" below, and pre-order Radiate Like This here.