Live music review: Warpaint

Forbidden Fruit, Dublin

In the Simpson’s episode ‘Homerpalooza’, the kids are explaining what it is to be cool. Marge: “Am I cool, kids?” Bart and Lisa: “No.” Marge: “Good, I’m glad. And that’s what makes me cool, not caring, right?” Bart and Lisa: “No.” Marge: “Well, how the hell do you be cool. I feel like we’ve tried everything here.”

From the shocking pink hair and camo jumpsuit of Jenny Lee Lindberg, and cerulean hair and Oakland Raiders shirt (among the suckiest of NFL teams) of Emily Kokal, Warpaint don’t care about being cool — and, thus, ooze the kind of cool that Marge Simpson couldn’t even imagine.