You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
In 2013, Warpaint started working on their sophomore album.
They retreated away from their home in Los Angeles to the nearby desert oasis of Joshua Tree,
California.
There, they wrote the song Love Is To Die,
and it was decided that it would be the single from their upcoming record.
Now, with over 6 million plays on Spotify and nearly 3 million more on YouTube,
Love Is To Die is by some measures their most popular song.
Designating it as the single was a decision that was easy to make early on,
but it also carried unforeseen consequences for the band.
In this episode,
three of the four members of Warpaint break down the sounds in the song and weigh in on some of the difficulty they faced getting this track from the initial idea to the finished recording.
This is Warpaint on Song Exploder.
This song actually was probably my favorite thing that we'd ever done.
It started off, in my opinion, in such a magical,
amazing place that was written in like five minutes.
We rented a house.