Warpaint - Champion
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Warpaint - "Champion" from the 2022 album Radiate Like This on Heirlooms/Virgin.
After six long years, Los Angeles quartet Warpaint are set to release a new album. Due out on May 6th, the heavily anticipated Radiate Like This follows 2016’s Heads Up. Alongside the announcement, the band shared the lead single “Champion,” which is just too good to not be our Song of the Day.
“Champion” continues Warpaint’s penchant for brooding anthems, with a slow-burning smooth groove leading the way with angelic harmonies floating amongst the thrumming beats for a haunting soundscape. The final minute builds the groove into a slightly rollicking post-rock instrumental for a cinematic ending.
“Being a champion to oneself and for others,” is the band’s description of the meaning of the song. “We are all in this together, life is too short not to strive for excellence in all that we do.”
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| 0:00.0 | I'm an ocean, breathing in and out |
| 0:27.0 | I'm a million years old, I'm a champion |
| 0:35.0 | I'm a champion |
| 0:45.0 | I'm an ocean, breathing in and out |
| 1:00.0 | I'm a million years old, I'm a champion |
| 1:09.0 | I'm a champion |
| 1:17.0 | I'm breathing, I'm breathing out |
| 1:25.0 | And here it is, I've got you |
| 1:29.0 | And here it is, I've talked to you |
| 1:33.0 | I'll help you figure out everything you know about |
| 1:50.0 | I'm an ocean, breathing in and out |
| 1:58.0 | I'm a million years old |
| 2:02.0 | I'm a champion |
| 2:15.0 | And here it is, I've got you |
| 2:19.0 | And here it is, I've talked to you |
| 2:23.0 | I'll help you figure out everything you know about |
| 2:32.0 | We're all the same sun, we're all a whole sun too |
| 2:55.0 | We're all the ocean |
| 3:00.0 | We're all the same sun, we're all a whole sun too |
| 3:12.0 | We're all the ocean, we're all a god too |
| 3:29.0 | And here it is, I've got you |
| 3:33.0 | And here it is, I've talked to you |
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