As Warm Drag, Los Angeles' Paul Quattrone and Vashti Windish blend their garage rock roots with a record store's worth of influences -- including dub, hip-hop, harsh noise, and minimal synth -- into a sexy, subterranean sound on releases such as their 2018 self-titled debut album.
Quattrone, a drummer for Thee Oh Sees and a former member of !!! and Modey Lemon, reconnected with Windish, a vocalist formerly of Golden Triangle and K-Holes, by chance in Los Angeles. The pair soon began mixing her commanding vocals with his sampling skills, and Warm Drag were born. After spending...