Paramount Styles

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Paramount Styles "Heaven's Alright" LP/CD
Cycle 034
Oct 19, 2010
Sometimes it happens that veteran musicians mature without losing the vitality and daring that made them notable in the first place. If you've been following independent music for some years, you might have heard of Scott McCloud and Alexis Fleisigs' last band together, Girls Against Boys. The albums speak for themselves starting with the acclaimed classic Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby (1993, Touch & Go).
McCloud started Paramount Styles with the release of Failure American Style in 2008, after a five-year hiatus from music.
Cycle/Konkurrent is proud to announce the release of Paramount Styles' second album, Heaven's Alright, and confounding all expectations this is the kind of album you make only once in a lifetime.
The opening track "Take Care of Me" sets the tone, combining dirty drums and bass propelling a wall of swirling electronics, cello and strings. "Amsterdam Again" is first class songwriting, relating true stories of touring life with the sort formidable restraint that only experience can bring. "The Greatest," is a perfectly crafted dark pop gem, with light streaming through the ceiling. "Desire Is Not Enough" and "White Palaces" bristle with the same sinister undercurrent that made Girls Against Boys a force to be reckoned with, and the final slow burn crescendo of "Come to Where You Are," recorded live and peaking at over 6 minutes, is a noisy wave of surprising beauty.
McCloud (guitar/voice) and Fleisig (drums) recorded the album at Stratosphere Sound in New York with producer/engineer and fellow musician Geoff Sanoff, whose previous work has included stints with Lloyd Cole, Television, Nada Surf, and Secret Machines, among others (and even a Grammy award if you care to know). Heaven's Alright hosts an array of fine musicians: Julia Kent (Antony and the Johnsons), Simon Lenski (DAAU) and Andrea Serrapiglio (Evangelista), share cello duty. Chris Smet (Roadhouse Libra) and Michael Hampton (of WDC hardcore legends Faith, and others) play guitars. Libor Palucha (Nomad of Prague) slings some bass.



PARAMOUNT STYLES live in Leuven-BELGIUM 29-01-09 part 4 from bernie van hecke on Vimeo.



Live in Athens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5-f8uiRZcA&feature=related