TT – LoveLaws

On her first solo album under the TT name, Warpaint's Theresa Wayman reveals the slippery, shimmering quality of her songwriting

Album Review by Katie Hawthorne | 18 May 2018
Album title: LoveLaws
Artist: TT
Label: LoveLeaks/Caroline International
Release date: 18 May

On solo debut LoveLaws, Theresa Wayman – guitarist and vocalist for LA royalty Warpaint – reveals the slippery, shimmering quality of her songwriting. Her talents won’t be a surprise to anyone familiar with her band, but laid bare like this, her imagination is startling and singular.

An album about motherhood, isolation and romances disrupted by the rhythms of touring, LoveLaws spends ten tracks trying to measure a person by the fragile threads of their human connections. I’ve Been Fine turns a plea – 'Why can’t you be next to me?' – into an incantation designed to summon bodies, to raise feelings from the ashes of a burnt-out relationship. Wayman’s voice is so measured and controlled that it’s almost eerie, all the more so when the track shatters into fractured, dystopian confusion. Tutorial is a submerged, watery trip-hop mystery: 'It’s like you know my secret,' she offers, without telling.

Dram is humid and physical, the sound of skin on skin. A slow-burn guitar solo is disguised by a rustling and rattling that hangs thick in the air. Safe crackles and steams, and when Wayman sings 'Baby, you’re so safe,' it is categorically an insult. LoveLaws is co-produced with Wayman’s brother Ivan, Dan Carey and Money Mark (Beastie Boys), and made with help from her Warpaint bandmates, but it’s an unsettling, unexpected testimony to finding your own self within other peoples’ selves, safeguarding that line between yourself and another.

Listen to: I've Been Fine, Dram, Safe, Too Sweet

https://www.ttlovelaws.com/