Now You Are One of Us
Stuck somewhere between that Halloween record
you had as a kid with the spooky sounds on it and a musical
representation of the movie The
Others, The Paper Chase uses off-kilter strings and piano
along with the bombast of slap bass and kick drums to drive
home a theatrical house of horrors. The lyrics weave their way
through illness and death and ghosts and general ugliness (as
if you couldn't guess by the guy hanging from a noose on the
album cover). The screech-sung lyrics are coated in reverb,
but are front and center in the bashing tidal wave of chopped
guitar bursts, backing screaming and the occasional snippet
of dialogue from somewhere. The overall effect is a swirling
crazy mess of catchy rock that will drive most insane, but will
totally make 'em listen all the way there. |
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