Paper Tigers: “A Portrait of a Scene”

Boston’s Paper Tigers currently have one show on their Bandcamp calendar. Wonder which show that is? On our highlighted track and 2022 single, the rock n roll four-piece conjures up a melange of post punk, emo, artrock skullduggery. There’s a refreshing minimalism to the approach, a refusal to drown the rhythm section in walls of six-string haze. Instead we get a bright beat suffused with a few electric guitar notes, judiciously deployed… Until you get to the climax, then all bets are off as a wild windstorm of distortion gives the lead vocals suitably high seas of heaving tumult to shout over.

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