Recently Dallas, Texas' chaotic indie punk band The Paper Chase, released their incredible and critically acclaimed new album, "Someday This Could All Be Yours" courtesy of Kill Rock Stars, at the same time premiering their mindblowing video for said album's first single "What Should We Do With Your Body (The Lightning)." Now, after much anticipation, the band kicks off their nationwide, headlining US tour, taking their latest opus to the screaming masses.
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 Congleton crafts his most startling account of humanity. On Someday 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
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
Jul 6 2009 George's Magestic Lounge Fayetteville, Arkansas
Jul 10 2009 Dans Silverleaf Denton, Texas
If “What Should We Do?” gives any indication of what The pAper chAse are preparing to deliver to us, then we'd have to say that they're sticking close to the formula that has proven to work for them; with a taste of frantic, discord mirroring the conceptual ideas of natural disasters buried within the lyrics. - The Tripwire
This, the Dallas-based act's fifth full-length, powerfully unpacks tunes about characters and situations with anthemic dedication. Interestingly, The Paper Chase also demonstrates just how sincere impropriety can stave off excessively pompous ramblings. In keeping their honesty about them, they manage to turn out one of the more compelling records of the year thus far. - Blogcritics
Where most bands who craft creepy-crawly albums look to acts like The Birthday Party or Pornography-era Cure as blueprints, The Paper Chase takes it up a few notches. While grim atmospheres prevail, that just scratches the surface: The uneasy blend of seasick piano melodies, movie-dialogue samples and shattered-glass guitar is downright Kafkaesque. It's dissociating. It's harrowing. It's pretty darn close to a masterpiece. - Aversion
Someday This Could All Be Yours finds the band at the top of their game, crafting songs that are simultaneously dense and desolate, meticulously measured and reckless. - Punknews
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
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 Congleton crafts his most startling account of humanity. On Someday 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
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
Jul 6 2009 George's Magestic Lounge Fayetteville, Arkansas
Jul 10 2009 Dans Silverleaf Denton, Texas
If “What Should We Do?” gives any indication of what The pAper chAse are preparing to deliver to us, then we'd have to say that they're sticking close to the formula that has proven to work for them; with a taste of frantic, discord mirroring the conceptual ideas of natural disasters buried within the lyrics. - The Tripwire
This, the Dallas-based act's fifth full-length, powerfully unpacks tunes about characters and situations with anthemic dedication. Interestingly, The Paper Chase also demonstrates just how sincere impropriety can stave off excessively pompous ramblings. In keeping their honesty about them, they manage to turn out one of the more compelling records of the year thus far. - Blogcritics
Where most bands who craft creepy-crawly albums look to acts like The Birthday Party or Pornography-era Cure as blueprints, The Paper Chase takes it up a few notches. While grim atmospheres prevail, that just scratches the surface: The uneasy blend of seasick piano melodies, movie-dialogue samples and shattered-glass guitar is downright Kafkaesque. It's dissociating. It's harrowing. It's pretty darn close to a masterpiece. - Aversion
Someday This Could All Be Yours finds the band at the top of their game, crafting songs that are simultaneously dense and desolate, meticulously measured and reckless. - Punknews
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
