Introducing The PaperShakers By Michelle Dee

They made their debut at the Sesh 2nd December and they definitely caught my eye. The PaperShakers had brought a roomful of people with them and caused quite a stir. Certainly one of the best first gigs I've seen since I started reviewing. Expect lots more to come out of this exciting new music act. Catch them 21st December at Adelphi Hull.

One In A Million It sounds good, really loud there's Manchester and Baggy in the sound and contemporary in-vogue spoken style vocal delivery. Progressive, it moves, changes, goes somewhere, reaching higher places. Little Men With Big Egos The elongated synth, dub intro that's what made me really look up and take notice. The chord change that's a bit good, preceding a brief burst of bass line. Beats and open spaces invite possibilities, leading eventually into the two-hander vocals. Then ever rising multi-layered guitar lines that work higher within themselves, some reverb on there too is there?

I Can't Remember Speaks to the club nut in us all...we've all done that walk of shame at seven in the morning...lost a few hours, days, weeks, months and for some it's years before they see what's happening. Sadly a few find the parties take refuge outside their head lock the door and never leave. I Will ShowYou Strong opening riffage (not sure about the hollow drum sound?) Roses, nineties sound. With a really polished recording could turn into a bit of an anthem.

Are any of you connected to The Charge? Or the East hull band The Painted Sambas....?

Buzz Junkie Sounds like a car starting up, then comes in with a sweet trance/dance intro, echoic vocal disorients the listener and perhaps there's an underpinning of Way Out West to latch onto. Excited about this one because it suggests a desire, for mixing and moulding genre and type to explore sound rather than just reproduce. I'm really into crossover, genre hopping stuff right now.

Wake Up Call A surprising, U2 sounding guitar riff mid song, vocally doesn't hang together as well as the others but this time I'm quite liking the hand drums in the foreground. The vocal sits within the rest of the sound and gets lost somewhere in the mix for me.

Well that's what these guys have on their Myspace check it out and see if you agree If you do let us know. What with the simple direct Mancunian vocal, the synthesizer vibe, the trance and house leanings, as well as the guitar constructs, The PaperShakers could find themselves devouring the gig circuit and before long playing to weekend club crowds. I can also see lots of collaborative work coming there way as they uncover and attract re-mixers, producers and DJs. Something to get excited about for 2009.

My favourite track could be Little Men but for instant sing-a- long appeal it would be One in a Million. Message from The PaperShakers All these tracks we've made are only demos. Made in our bedrooms and garage, we have plans for an EP in the new year. We have SonaSound who are DJs that are signed on Phobic Records and very close friends wanting to make remixes for us. There is a connection to The Charge as Andy, our song writer/front man along with Dave our drummer, played with them years ago. www.myspace.com/thepapershakers

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