WARPAINT, the LA four-piece, have developed a noticeably broader tonal depth since their debut album.

In 2011, the year after releasing The Fool, they appeared as newcomers at The Great Escape festival, and their sense of horror soundtrack creepiness, emerging through an absorbing musical chemistry between these charismatic alchemists, was perhaps in greater evidence than ever at Brighton Dome six years later.

What they have added on their latest and third album Heads Up is a flourish of relatively poppy singles – and, in the case of one song, (Dre) a lustrous love song combining R and B with plaintive guitars. Lead singers and guitarists Emily Kokal and Theresa Wayman, the most foregrounded members of the band, sometimes met mid-stage in extended sequences of intense interplay.

Behind them, extraordinary drummer Stella Mozgawa – a recent collaborator with Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and a mutual admirer of Nick Cave - and bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg frequently transformed the atmosphere from honeyed funk to full-on disco. “I’m focused on the run”, sang Kokal on the new record’s title track, Whiteout. Then she sank to her knees, watching the crowd sway beneath her.