New Album OUT NOW
Recently, Dallas, Texas' The Paper Chase, announced they'd be setting out on a nationwide US tour, taking their mindblowing new album, "Someday This Could All Be Yours" (out today on Kill Rock Stars), to the masses. Now, after much anticipation, the band has premiered their incredibly disturbing new video for "What Should We Do With Your Body (The Lightning)" exclusively on Pitchfork TV. Says the website: "Dallas rockers compile found footage of bare behinds, bare breasts, and, um, tornadoes in this old-school education video parody. Needless to say, it's NSFW. Directed by Clyde Petersen."
Watch the video for "What Should We Do With Your Body (The Lightning)" here!
With each track on the band's new album representing a different natural disaster, Paper Chase leader and producer extraordinaire John CongletonSomeday This Could All Be Yours, Congleton explores the existential crisis inherent within a universe seemingly fated to exterminate its population. Wringing the most sinister and destructive elements out of the natural world, he creates characters frantically trying to survive elements far beyond their control. While the narrative voices obsess over the batteries in their smoke alarms, the dams along the river and their desperate prayers for health and prosperity, these songs expose the utter frailty of the human condition. Faced with huge catastrophic or cosmic events, man has no choice but to recognize his own insignificance.
On Someday, The Paper Chase sounds even more unlike any other band in modern music. With drummer Jason Garner making his recorded debut with the group, the band expands upon its singular vision--a perpetual struggle between conflict and resolution, dissonance and beauty. Utilizing a newfound dynamic command, these songs are able to breathe--subtly building feelings of anticipation, yet erupting into violence and chaos as crisis becomes inevitable. The Paper Chase has matured but hasn't lightened up. If anything, by leaving open spaces and allowing melodies to fully develop, the group presents its most powerful work to date.
* Someday This Could All Be Yours (Part 2) - also comprised of songs about natural disasters--will be released in early 2010. The Paper Chase is closely coming up on their 10 year anniversary. The band's first record was released in 2000 and was formed shortly before by producer John Congleton in Dallas Texas whose production credits will clog up any google search engine. This recording marks the debut of drummer Jason Garner and third LP with Sean Kirkpatrick (Spoon). Bobby Weaver completes the line up along with Congleton as the only other founding member.
Someday This Could All Be Yours Tracklist
crafts his most startling account of humanity. On 1. If Nobody Moves Nobody Will Get Hurt (The Extinction)
2. I'm Going To Heaven With Or Without You (The Forest Fire)
3. The Common Cold (The Epidemic)
4. The Laying Of Hands The Speaking In Tongues (The Mass Hysteria)
5. Your Money Or Your Life (The Comet)
6. What Should We Do With Your Body? (The Lightning)
7. This Is A Rape (The Flood)
8. The Small Of Your Back The Nape Of Your Neck (The Blizzard)
9. This Is Only A Test (The Tornado)
10. We Have Ways To Make You Talk (The Human Condition)
The Paper Chase Live!
Jun 18 2009 Walter's on Washington Houston, Texas
Jun 19 2009 Thirsty Hippo Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Jun 20 2009 Drunken Unicorn Atlanta, Georgia
Jun 21 2009 Local 506 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Jun 22 2009 DC9 Washington DC, Washington DC
Jun 23 2009 Brillobox Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jun 24 2009 M Room Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jun 25 2009 Mercury Lounge New York, New York
Jun 26 2009 Maxwell's Hoboken, New Jersey
Jun 27 2009 AS220 Providence, Rhode Island
Jun 28 2009 II Motore Montreal, Quebec
Jun 29 2009 The Drake Toronto, Ontario
Jul 1 2009 Mac's Bar Lansing, Michigan
Jul 2 2009 Cactus Club Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jul 3 2009 Empty Bottle Chicago, Illinois
Jul 4 2009 The Busted Lift Dubuque, Iowa
Jul 5 2009 Firebird St. Louis, Missouri
For more information, visit:
www.thepaperchaseband.com
www.myspace.com/thepaperchasemusicspace
Watch the video for "What Should We Do With Your Body (The Lightning)" here!
With each track on the band's new album representing a different natural disaster, Paper Chase leader and producer extraordinaire John CongletonSomeday This Could All Be Yours, Congleton explores the existential crisis inherent within a universe seemingly fated to exterminate its population. Wringing the most sinister and destructive elements out of the natural world, he creates characters frantically trying to survive elements far beyond their control. While the narrative voices obsess over the batteries in their smoke alarms, the dams along the river and their desperate prayers for health and prosperity, these songs expose the utter frailty of the human condition. Faced with huge catastrophic or cosmic events, man has no choice but to recognize his own insignificance.
On Someday, The Paper Chase sounds even more unlike any other band in modern music. With drummer Jason Garner making his recorded debut with the group, the band expands upon its singular vision--a perpetual struggle between conflict and resolution, dissonance and beauty. Utilizing a newfound dynamic command, these songs are able to breathe--subtly building feelings of anticipation, yet erupting into violence and chaos as crisis becomes inevitable. The Paper Chase has matured but hasn't lightened up. If anything, by leaving open spaces and allowing melodies to fully develop, the group presents its most powerful work to date.
* Someday This Could All Be Yours (Part 2) - also comprised of songs about natural disasters--will be released in early 2010. The Paper Chase is closely coming up on their 10 year anniversary. The band's first record was released in 2000 and was formed shortly before by producer John Congleton in Dallas Texas whose production credits will clog up any google search engine. This recording marks the debut of drummer Jason Garner and third LP with Sean Kirkpatrick (Spoon). Bobby Weaver completes the line up along with Congleton as the only other founding member.
Someday This Could All Be Yours Tracklist
crafts his most startling account of humanity. On 1. If Nobody Moves Nobody Will Get Hurt (The Extinction)
2. I'm Going To Heaven With Or Without You (The Forest Fire)
3. The Common Cold (The Epidemic)
4. The Laying Of Hands The Speaking In Tongues (The Mass Hysteria)
5. Your Money Or Your Life (The Comet)
6. What Should We Do With Your Body? (The Lightning)
7. This Is A Rape (The Flood)
8. The Small Of Your Back The Nape Of Your Neck (The Blizzard)
9. This Is Only A Test (The Tornado)
10. We Have Ways To Make You Talk (The Human Condition)
The Paper Chase Live!
Jun 18 2009 Walter's on Washington Houston, Texas
Jun 19 2009 Thirsty Hippo Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Jun 20 2009 Drunken Unicorn Atlanta, Georgia
Jun 21 2009 Local 506 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Jun 22 2009 DC9 Washington DC, Washington DC
Jun 23 2009 Brillobox Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jun 24 2009 M Room Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jun 25 2009 Mercury Lounge New York, New York
Jun 26 2009 Maxwell's Hoboken, New Jersey
Jun 27 2009 AS220 Providence, Rhode Island
Jun 28 2009 II Motore Montreal, Quebec
Jun 29 2009 The Drake Toronto, Ontario
Jul 1 2009 Mac's Bar Lansing, Michigan
Jul 2 2009 Cactus Club Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jul 3 2009 Empty Bottle Chicago, Illinois
Jul 4 2009 The Busted Lift Dubuque, Iowa
Jul 5 2009 Firebird St. Louis, Missouri
As a producer, Congleton has had his hand in crafting the sound of a wide range of popular indie and alternative rock groups out there, from from Modest Mouse to The Mountain Goats to Marilyn Manson, and even pop and hip-hop acts, such as Erykah Badu and The Roots. But it's the frantically jarring, hypnotically melodic, skin-crawling music that he creates as The Paper Chase that will probably haunt your dreams — and on "Someday This Could All Be Yours (Part 1)," Congleton successfully continues along that made-for-Halloween road. - Washington Post's Express Night Out
For more information, visit:
www.thepaperchaseband.com
www.myspace.com/thepaperchasemusicspace
