Reviews

PAPER" FACES -- "SOLID" GOLD!

You know, yer Cuzzin' Relic always tries to intro the best new acts oneitherside of any of the ponds, right? Well, over the past few days, I've found a band that totally blew my socks off with their lively folk/rock sound!
They're called PaperFaces and hail from the UK. To try and describe their fresh, somewhat "retro" sound (with all-new, self-composed material!) would be like trying to describe strawberry ice cream -- ya just gotta taste it yourselfto dig its unbelievably-groovy flavour!
I'll tell you this, though: If Uncle Lloyd were with us right now and heard Marie, Paul, Chris, Matt and crew, he'd love 'em! And if Ed Sullivan were still around with his "really big shew", I could guarantee that this troupe would be headlining the broadcast.
Okay ... that being said, are ya ready to feel GOOOOOD?? Then catch this vid of the band doing Crazy Sometimes (PS I'm gonna try to finagle an interview with these dynamic talents next week, so stay tuned ...):

Review of Second EP Take Me Away

Back in April last year I was handed a five track, self titled EP to review by a band named Paperfaces. My love for the band was almost instantaneous as I ran through the southern scented tracklisting. The shortplayer, with its sultry female vocals provided courtesy of frontwoman Marie Dance and backed up by a band with the confidence of delivering a simplied yet unwatery musical perfection, gave us a glimpse into a band to keep an eye on. Drenched in a bluesy, folk layered rawness to challenge the best that the swamp rock genre offers, Paperfaces EP portrayed a band well lived, well structured and oozing with a talent to rival many of the commercial heavyweights that grace the charts weekly. Now, nine months later, Paperfaces are back with a follow up to that EP. Take Me Away is the band's latest single and sees Paperfaces doing exactly what they do best. Revved up and given a more upbeat outing, Take Me Away is a musical delicacy of tingling guitarwork, smoky and confidently laid back vocals and a horn section that compliments the track from start to end and fills out Take Me Away with splendour. In addition to the lead single the band also offer up a further duo of B-sides in the form of the Americana influenced Passing By, with its euphorically rich guitar fingerings and the piano led closing of The Good Ship Flo which rounds the single off with a bold, syrupy and gorgeously harmonised ballad that allows the perfect opportunity to show off the fact that the band is no one trick pony when it comes to musical style. 

 

Brandon , Entertainment Focus 22nd January 2011