Warpaint @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 24 March

“It sounds like you’re shouting horrible things, but I’m hoping they’re nice? Is that just the Scottish way?” asks Warpaint’s Theresa Wayman. She’s answered by a throaty roar of reassurance from a crowd that’s clearly ready to kiss the feet of the LA four-piece. 

Opening with a run of tracks consisting of the super new and the firmly established, the band make a firm statement on where they’ve been and where they’re headed. In an interview with The Skinny last December, drummer Stella Mozgawa voiced the group’s intentions to “reimagine” the album format, and they’ve made good on the promise, releasing a double A-side of I’ll Start Believing and No Way Out just last month. Aired live alongside long-term fan favourites (Composure and Undertow, from debut album The Fool), these new tracks sound crisp, victorious and tantalisingly unpredictable.

Last year’s triumphant self-titled album finally gets a look-in, in the shape of an extended segue from Intro into Keep It Healthy – and it’s rapturously greeted. Whirring, driven and royally huge, it proved a perfect playground for a band so psychically in sync, yet so determined to stretch those boundaries. Known for live sets that are more jam session than practised precision, it’s with an electric nervous energy that Warpaint try out Teese – a track from 2014 they’ve not yet performed; all ghostly harmonies and a magnificently nonchalant bass-line from Jenny Lee Lindberg.

The set wraps up with Disco//Very: “It’s time to dance,” asserts co-vocalist Emily Kokal. The brilliantly creepy, seductive floor-filler has Glasgow all riled up and vigorously demanding an encore. Thankfully the band oblige, and storm through a long-awaited rendition of Love Is To Die before fully finishing with yet another oldie, Krimson. Sounding just as vital alongside the brand-new material, it’s a testimony to a band that’s on top of their game – but yet has so much more to bring.