LoveLaws TT

• 1 Mykki 04:10
• 2 I've Been Fine 04:01
• 3 Love Leaks 06:02
• 4 The Dream 03:57
• 5 Tutorial 04:38
• 6 Dram 04:39
• 7 Safe 04:38
• 8 Sassafras Interlude 01:19
• 9 Take One 04:18
• 10 Too Sweet 03:54
• Total Runtime 41:36

Info for LoveLaws

TT, also known as Theresa Wayman, vocalist and guitarist of Warpaint, has announced the release of her debut solo album, LoveLaws, on 18 May through LoveLeaks/Caroline International and has shared the first track ‘Love Leaks’, which can be heard below.

LoveLaws reflects Wayman’s personal growth and growth as a musician over the past 14 years, as well as enabling her to explore ideas that are otherwise difficult in a band setting. The album is written by a mother of a 12 year old son “coming from a position of what it’s like to have and to get unconditional love.”

The record is also about the ups and downs of romance, viewed through Wayman’s experience as a traveling musician, where the routine can be maddening in its loneliness and where relationships are difficult. The songs were her way of processing this loneliness. The result is an album that, in Wayman’s words, is: “down tempo, pretty sexy, and a bit emotional. I’m a romantic person in a world where a relationship is difficult. But I also needed to be on my own and not force having a relationship.”

TT is a one-woman band on LoveLaws: she plays bass, guitar, and synth on the album, and she programmed the drum beats on most of the tracks. She also had a little help from Warpaint bandmates Jenny Lee Lindberg (bass) and Stella Mozgawa (drums). Wayman co-produced the album with her brother Ivan with additional production contributions from Dan Carey (Kate Tempest, Bat For Lashes) and Money Mark (Beastie Boys).

Critically acclaimed LA quartet Warpaint have been confounding expectation since the band’s inception in 2004. They have put out three albums and one EP to considerable critical acclaim.

Theresa Wayman, guitar, vocals, bass, drums

Theresa Wayman
is one-quarter of Warpaint, the band whose rousing siren sounds have bewitched music-lovers since their formation way back in 2004. This September sees the group release their latest album, Heads Up – which founding member, vocalist, and guitarist Wayman has crafted while simultaneously working on her own solo electronic album, BOSS.

If you're fortunate enough to have witnessed Warpaint perform live, you may have noticed that all four members seem intrinsically close – even spiritually linked – to one another. Wayman says that they listen to music together frequently, but rarely talk about it, as they already know which deep-rooted music has informed them individually. And then there’s the dark charm in their songs. 2009’s Exquisite Corpse transported women to the bedrooms of their pubescent selves and captivated men with a seductive but sinister 'Lisbon Girls' effect. Four albums later and their sound has evolved into an exciting new experimental, electronic direction prevalent on new single, New Song. Heads Up looks to be a new chapter: a mature, evolved piece of work that has allowed the outfit to explore new sounds and even instruments, in order to create something entirely fresh.

For Wayman, the music that has influenced her sound over the past decade is rooted in her teenage years. “These albums and songs that I have picked I still go back to because they sum up everything that I find valuable in music and also everything that I'm trying to achieve with the music I make,” she explains. “I have albums right now that influence me, but these ones always ring true. They’re not something that was the case for just that moment in time, you know?” Here, she reveals the five albums that have informed her musical practice.

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