No Fold

I borrowed this one from their myspace, if anyone knows who gets credit I will gladly give it

I'll admit that when I first moved to Denton ten years ago my decision was largely based on second-hand knowledge of the music scene here, most of what I had known at the time was the Dallas/Fort Worth scene, mostly the One-Ton Records acts such as Caulk & Doosu. Not to take anything away from those bands, but after being here for a couple of years a roommate took me to a Paperchase show - and it completely changed the way I looked at music. The sugary rock riffs of the Dallas scene at the time were fine, but I was raised in an area where the radio was all you have - I had never heard music as manic and deconstructed as Young Bodies Heal Quickly, You Know".

Over the years of seeing them live I've noticed moments of similarities with other bands, but musically there's just not much out there that would be on the same plane. I once told a friend they sometimes remind me of a live act of "The Wall" (the pulpit scene), only much angrier, precise, and demented.
I don't mean like dirty dread locks and crappy makeup demented, I mean the little clean cut guy in the cube next to you storing body parts in his mini-fridge for good luck. Like he suddenly jumped on top of his desk, waving his hands wildly, spewing half-sense and whole truths like they were daggers, making sure to aim them at every last person in the room.
There's a certain urgency in the music, like a frantic pen to paper missive, written in blood and partially running off the paper and written across the desk.
And unlike most bands I've seen in the past few years, every sentiment expressed in the lyrics are evident in his gestures and his face, from sarcastic to saccharine, from defeated to destroyer of worlds.

I could go a little deeper, but we'll just leave it at this:

Tonight (Friday April 11th)
Rubber Gloves (411 E. Sycamore, 9pm, $10_
the pAper chAse (also: fansite here w/music)
Faux Fox
Mount Righteous