On paper, Warpaint seemed a strange choice to close the large-capacity Corn Exchange stage on the first night of The Great Escape.

But the line stretching out along Church Street suggested the four girls from LA had finally broken the UK. Sadly, judging by their performance and the ever-thinning audience during the set, it may just have been hype that drove the crowds there, rather than a genuine love of their debut album The Fool.

Cheers greeted set highlight Undertow, which showed what the quartet is capable of – combining ethereal three-part harmonies with a funky rhythm section in a manner reminiscent of early Throwing Muses.

But sadly many of their songs seemed based around the same slowly mutating sub-Cure grooves, with chiming guitars, lengthy jams and sudden tempo changes which slowly became routine for each track. The only relief came from the beautiful vocal harmonies by the three out front and the impressive drumming by Stella Mozgawa, occasionally augmented by interesting synth lines or drum machine patterns.

Her talents seemed somewhat wasted, however, as songs blurred into each other. In particular, album track Composure felt more like a series of sketches, rather than a fully fledged song, with its repetitive mantra-like lyrics.