Warpaint

Fri., Dec. 3, 9 p.m., $12, Making Time with Diamond Rings and the Making Time DJs, Voyeur, 1221 St. James St., 877-435-9849, igetrvng.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

[ indie rock ]

For large swaths of their dark, dense, slightly dizzying debut full-length, The Fool (Rough Trade), these L.A. up-and-comers come off like a coven of Cat Powers on a seriously bad trip, not just beautifully bummed-out but actively spooky and often unsettling, in a not necessarily pleasurable way. But there are treasures of texture and tone to be gleaned in the album's art-damaged, studio-addled post-punk/psych sprawl — flashes of shimmering beauty, steely passages of crushing rhythmic muscularity. And the occasional stylistic detour, like "Baby's" left turn into forlorn, plaintive folk, can make The Fool feel bewitching in a wholly different sense.

Fri., Dec. 3, 9 p.m., $12, Making Time with Diamond Rings and the Making Time DJs, Voyeur, 1221 St. James St., 877-435-9849, igetrvng.com.