Any listener who felt that Warpaint’s self-titled 2014 album erred on the side of understated textures and half-formed ideas over actual songs might feel a sense of deja vu about the opening track on bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg’s solo debut. Blind dawdles along so amorphously and anonymously that one suspects even Lindberg herself has difficulty recalling it within 10 seconds of its ending. He Fresh and Long Lonely Winter are little better. Thankfully, there are more arresting moments to punctuate the torpor. Boom Boom and Never are both helped along by fizzing basslines and more engaged vocals, while the unhinged screaming that marks the end of White Devil sounds jarringly out of place. It’s all immaculately executed (with help from Warpaint bandmate Stella Mozgawa on drums), just too often desperately unmemorable.
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