Warpaint on band's evolution, sexiness of Black Sabbath

As Warpaint's world tour for their self-titled 2014 album continues with an appearance at Forbidden Fruit, Kokal reflects upon how, after a revolving door of drummers since their inception, the addition of current drummer Stella Mozgawa has solidified the band and contributed to the band's strides in both writing and their live performance.

?It wasn't even a question. We weren't a touring band before Stella joined. We came into ourselves with her, throughout the 300-something shows we played for that tour. And so when we came to write this album, we'd never been a more solid unit. Warpaint has never been more defined. One of our friends who plays drums with Ariel Pink said that Stella's like the Tommy Lee of our band! She does have this outrageous, Australian, personality.?

Kokal also explained the common descriptor of ?sexy? towards their music and how she defines sexy music herself.

?We don't want to play anything that you can't groove out to and sexy is our buzz word for that. I think Wu-Tang is some of the sexiest music. If you listen to 'Paranoid' by Black Sabbath, which is ominous and spooky- you can put that album on anywhere. It's never heavy metal bashing you over the head. It's very tasteful and there's a lot of sexiness to it. Music that's sexy is music that you can have on anywhere. It's below the belt and you can move to it. Who isn't attracted to that??

Kokal also describes working with Flood on their latest album and dealing with Catholic guilt in the latest issue of Hot Press, in shops now.