Track Listing

01 Said the Spider to the Fly (mp3)
02 One Day He Went Out for Milk and Never Came Home
03 What I'd Be Without Me
04 The Sinking Ship The Grand Applause
05 Piggy's Had Too Much Wine
06 Ready, Willing, Cain and Able
07 Now, We Just Slowly Circle the Draining Fish Bowl
08 A War is Coming
09 Your Ankles to Your Earlobes
10 Let's Be Bad, Henry, Let's Be Really Bad
11 Now You're Gonna Get it
12 Abby, You're Going to Burn For What You've Done to Me
13 Your Pretty Little Head
14 Dying With Decent Music

the pAper chAse

Desperate times call for desperate measures. (Um, we're not referring to the
Patriot Act.) Dallas native John Congleton knows desperation. He also knows
paranoia, anxiety, tension and stress. You can talk to him about it, but you can
also listen to the band he leads, the Paper Chase. God Bless Your Black Heart
, the quartet's Kill Rock Stars debut (and third full-length overall), might
be the most desperate record you'll hear in this year of desperate records:
tight knots of spiderwebbed guitar lines tangled up with off-kilter piano parts
and seasick string charts, laid over some of the heaviest drums since John
Bonham put brontosaurus bone to woolly mammoth skin. (Credit Congleton's day job
as an in-demand studio engineer/producer for the diamond-hard sound.)